Short Stories audiobooks

Old-fashioned Narratives: Volume One

By: Vladimir Odoyevsky

Narrated by: Tony Cleary

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Society gossip and life in the slum, life's tragedies and comedies, the sacred, the profane, the admirable, the ridiculous, and much more - mixed thoroughly and presented for your reading pleasure by one of the most delightful old gossips of Russian literature Vladimir Odoyevsky.This collection includes the following works: Intercepted... Read more

Trifles and Folly

By: Gail Z. Martin

Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of nine adventures: "Buttons," "The Restless Dead," "Retribution," "Coffin Box," "Wicked Dreams," "Collector," "Bad Memories," "Shadow Garden," and "Spook House."

Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles & Folly in modern-day Charleston, an antiques and curios shop with a dangerous secret. Cassidy can read the history of objects by... Read more

Anamorphose

By: Charlène Mauwls

Narrated by: Dominique Faure

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Le petit immeuble du 16 rue des Clarisses renferme décidément bien des secrets... Philippe Meunier se disait que son subconscient lui jouait des tours ; que la fatigue conjuguée à la vague ressemblance de quelqu'un se rendant au troisième le mettait dans l'erreur. C'était à cet étage-là que vivait encore le pauvre Émile, emmuré dans la... Read more

Stanna hos mig - en erotisk novell

By: Nicole Löv

Narrated by: Sanna Nord

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"När Martin placerade heta kyssar längs hennes hals var hon förlorad. Det var hennes akilleshäl och han visste det. När hans ena hand gled innanför hennes byxor kunde han tydligt känna hur redo hon var. Anna var våt och enbart hans beröring fick henne nästan att komma på en gång."Anna har aldrig trott på kärlek vid första ögonkastet tills hon... Read more

Chronicles of Avonlea

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories in this collection all relate to the fictional sea-sprayed Canadian village of Avonlea. Anne Shirley appears in a few, but most concern other characters from the Anne Shirley series, including Marilla Cuthbert, Mrs. Rachel Lynde, Diana Barry, and the reverend Mr. Allan and his wife. Published in 1912, these tales of hidden hopes and... Read more

Further Chronicles of Avonlea

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Kate Handford

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the second collection of short stories relating to the fictional sea-sprayed Canadian village of Avonlea. Anne Shirley appears in a few, but most concern other characters from the Anne Shirley series, including Diana Barry and members of the Meredith and Blair families. Published in 1920, these tales of hidden hopes and cherished dreams... Read more

Rip Van Winkle

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York's Catskill Mountains before the American Revolution, a Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle falls asleep and wakes up twenty years later without realizing how much time has passed. Unaware that the Revolutionary War has taken place, he must come to terms with the changes he encounters. Washington Irving wrote “Rip Van Winkle”... Read more

How Long 'til Black Future Month?

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Eller,...

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.

"Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles... Read more

El eterno viajero

By: Cristina Pacheco

Narrated by: Agostina Longo

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

El eterno viajero reúne una serie de relatos de una prosa íntima y solemne, que aborda conflictos tanto cotidianos –el trabajo, el desempleo, el dinero, la familia– como existenciales –el amor, la muerte y la soledad y el olvido–. El relato que da nombre al libro 'El eterno viajero' es un emotivo texto dedicado a José Emilio Pacheco, que relata... Read more

Velvet

By: B. J. Hermansson

Narrated by: Susanna Persson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"En gång förförde hon en hel pluton på närmare tjugo soldater och befäl i olika grad. Jag vet, det låter osannolikt. Än mindre verkligt att det hela skulle ha skett under en och samma natt. Men det är vad jag hört, och just denna historia har jag hört från flera håll."Fyra män i uniformer, något uppknäppta, samtalar intensivt medan elden... Read more

Los trabajos perdidos

By: Cristina Pacheco

Narrated by: Valeria Liboreiro

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Cuentos escritos con delicado trazo y gran atención al detalle; historias cotidianas que recrean el transito vital de hombres y mujeres cuyas pequeñas y grandes batallas marcan el pulso de sus vidas. Los relatos de Cristina Pacheco, una de las mejores y más prolíficas escritoras mexicanas de la actualidad, recorren todo el espectro de las... Read more

Sommarsex 3: Folkets park

By: Alexandra Södergran

Narrated by: Fredrika Eriksson

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Det är fullt av liv och rörelse, med röster och skratt – men ingen vet om vad de gör. Det är deras förbjudna hemlighet. Kjolen är fördragen och det är sakta, sakta som hon guppar, så att det krävs att någon måste stanna till lite extra, och verkligen titta, för att inse vad som pågår. Och det är det ingen som gör, alla människor är upptagna av... Read more

The Battersea Flat Mystery

By: Edgar Jepson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Battersea Flat Mystery' is the true story of a particularly unusual unsolved murder in the Battersea area of London. A man is found shot on the stairs outside the empty flat below the one where his ex-mistress lives and where his son is visiting for supper. A mysterious stranger is seen running from the scene. The murdered man has a history... Read more

Sommarsex 2: Stranden

By: Alexandra Södergran

Narrated by: Fredrika Eriksson

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Om hon bara kunde få Jimmy, han hade så vackra ögon. Fina händer och en fin kuk. Om de bara fick vara själva en stund, bakom stenarna och buskarna. Mitt ibland vanliga människor på deras vanliga dag vid havet. Hon och han, nakna med varandra, vinden mot huden och det solvarma gräset. Såklart utan att någon såg dem. Men ändå, risken fanns."På... Read more

The Black Veil

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping mystery story by Charles Dickens. A newly qualified doctor receives a call from his first patient—a mysterious woman who is deeply distressed and who is covered in a thick black veil. She tells him a confusing story about a dying man who she wishes the doctor to visit the following day, although she assures the doctor that the patient... Read more

The Ghost at Massingham Mansions

By: Ernest Bramah

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In his stories of detection, Bramah hit on the idea of a blind detective, Max Carrados, whose triumphs are all the more amazing because of his disability. In this story, Max Carrados is called in to investigate a mysterious ghost which haunts an empty flat in Massingham Mansions in London. Every night gastlights are seen in the apartment, even... Read more

The House of Strange Stories

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The House of Strange Stories' is the tale of an evening after dinner when the various members of a house party take turns to relate a ghost story which they have experienced themselves. The stories become stranger and stranger as the evening goes on. Read more

The Interlopers

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Interlopers" is the story of two sworn enemies who find themselves trapped and injured under a fallen tree in a forest at night. Read more

The Ivory God

By: J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Ivory God' is the tale of a failing writer who acquires a strange ivory carving of an Indian god. He becomes convinced that the statue is communicating with him, taking possession of him, even writing through him. Read more

The Wisdom of the Cymry

By: Winifred Faraday

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Welsh Triads (Trioedd Ynys Prydein, 'Triads of the Island of Britain') are a group medieval manuscripts which preserve fragments of Welsh folklore, mythology and traditional history in the form of wise sayings. The triads are terse statements of three related facts—probably to make them easier to remember. The oldest triads predate... Read more

The Signal

By: Vsevolod Garshin

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

'The Signal' is the story of two peasants who work as track walkers on the railway, Semyon Ivanov and Vasily Stepanych. Semyon is grateful for his job and the hut and the vegetable patch which goes with it, but Vasily is discontented with his lot and constantly complains, including to his employers. This grumbling irritates the railway... Read more

Herbert Armstrong, Poisoner

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Armstrong was a Welsh solicitor who murdered his wife by administering arsenic. His life was marked by love affairs and dubious business dealings. It is also probable that his hatred of his dull, respectable existence in a tiny rural village was one of the motives for his terrible crime. This story of the crime and trial of Armstrong... Read more

The Café of the Broken Heart

By: Leonard Merrick

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cafè of the Broken Heart is situated near the cemetery at Monmartre. When a widow calls by on the last day of the year and asks for a private room to grieve on the third anniversary of the death of her late husband, she is irritated to learn that the room is already occupied. She gets into conversation with the other mourner—a young... Read more

A Bracelet at Bruges

By: Arnold Bennett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

'A Bracelet at Bruges' is a mystery story about a lost diamond bracelet. Initially there does not appear to be any mystery about the loss. Kitty Sartorius, the famous actress, visiting Bruges with her friend Eve Fincastle, had just passed the valuable trinket to her new acquaintance Madame Lawrence to look at, when the latter accidentally... Read more