Short Stories audiobooks

Ida's New Year Cake

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ida Mitchell, a third-year student at the Clifton Academy, is spending the holidays at her boarding-house, unable to go home because her siblings have the measles. Another Ida Mitchell, who is a second-year student at Clifton is also spending the holidays away from home. When a fruit cake intended for Ida is accidentally delivered to the other... Read more

Training School for Negro Girls

By: Camille Acker

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Janina Edwards

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This debut collection is a complicated love letter to Washington, DC, and to those who call it home: a TSA agent who’s never flown, a girl braving new worlds to play piano, and a teacher caught up in a mayoral race. These characters navigate life’s “training school”―with lessons on gentrification and respectability—and fight to create their own... Read more

Uncle Richard's New Year's Dinner

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Prissy's Uncle Richard and her father haven't exchanged words in eight years since a property dispute created hard feeling. When Prissy overhears Uncle Richard saying he has to travel for work on New Years' day, she resolves to sneak into his house and cook him a proper holiday dinner. Uncle Richard returns early and catches Prissy in the act.... Read more

Bertie's New Year

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bertie Ross has a few more deliveries to make for Sampson's store before the New Years' holiday. After a delivery at the Forbes' house, Dr. Forbes' daughters invite cold-looking Bertie in to get warm and ask why he isn't wearing mittens. Explaining that he lent them to his sickly brother William John, the sisters hatch a plan to provide a proper... Read more

Christmas at Red Butte

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Christmas at Red Butte, Theodora, the jolliest, bravest girl of sixteen in all Saskatchewan pawns a precious locket so she can afford to buy toys for the poor family that has kindly taken her in after her own parents died. A heartwarming Christmas story for all generations by Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Read more

The Falsoms' Christmas Dinner

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Siblings Alexina and Stephen are down on their luck this year and resign themselves to not having a Christmas dinner. But when their wealthy, gourmand uncle James invites himself to their house for Christmas, the pair scramble to lay out a sumptuous feast, including his favorite, Mince pie. But ten minutes before the turkey is done, an... Read more

The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

While out for a walk, two young men find themselves on Enderly Rd, known for its poor inhabitants and shabby dwellings. They meet a crying girl on her way home and stop her. Learning that the boys who promised to help decorate the schoolhouse for the examinations to be held on Christmas Eve were backing out, the two young men determine to help... Read more

The Josephs' Christmas

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Out on the prairie, The Joseph Family is all astir with concealing their Christmas gifts for one another. But will Santa come this year? After all, the crops had failed this summer and they were on short commons. When their town neighbors, the Ralstons ask to take refuge overnight at the Joseph's on Christmas Eve, they make a shakedown bed in... Read more

The Osbornes' Christmas

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When Cousin Myra comes to visit for Christmas at the Osbornes' she finds her young cousins Frankie and Ida are bored with Christmas. Deciding that they have had too much of it, Cousing Myra suggests that the cousins share Christmas with some of the more unfortunate children in their community. Will Frankie and Ida give up their presents and... Read more

A Christmas Mistake

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Grant, beset by medical bills and other pressing obligations, tells her children that they will not be celebrating Christmas this year. Older Keith takes the news in stride, while younger Teddy angrily insists he will have his Christmas turkey one way or another. When the neighborhood schoolteacher drops by to extend an invitation to... Read more

Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket, Lucy Rose tries to talk her folksy Aunt Cyrilla out of bringing her big, bulgy, funny-looking basket to the city to deliver Christmas goodies to their relatives in the city. When their train is stranded during a snow storm, Aunt Cyrilla and her fellow passengers team up to provide a proper Christmas morning... Read more

The Land I Lost

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Melissa Fumero

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Alec Lightwood, partner of the High Warlock of Brooklyn and father of a warlock child, visits Buenos Aires in the aftermath of the Dark War. When he arrives, he is not welcomed by the Shadowhunters there. He believes it is because of his companion Lily, the head of the New York vampire clan, until a Shadowhunter orphan confides a dark secret to... Read more

How the Whale Became and Other Tales of the Early World

By: Ted Hughes

Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo & Ted Hughes

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. They are collected here in one volume for the first time.

These are richly told tales of sparkling intensity about animals finding their form, and God's struggle to understand what he has... Read more

I Racconti del Veggente

By: Aldivan Teixeira Torres

Narrated by: Federico Foglia

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

”I racconti del veggente” è una collezione delle storie migliori pubblicate dal veggente. L`obiettivo è riunire in un testo l`aiuto necessario per un`analisi della vita e una sostituzione positiva di fronte ai fallimenti delle vittime. Questa collezione è stimolante e non puoi perdere per un prezzo unico. Read more

The Bad News

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“We don’t like bad news, but we need it. We need to know about it in case it’s coming our way.”

This delicious, contemptuous and poignant micro-story is the first in the acclaimed collection, Moral Disorder, from towering author and #1 New York Times Bestseller, Margaret Atwood.   
       
The bad news arrives in the form of a paper, which Tig... Read more

Mowgli (Movie Tie-In)

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Ralph Lister, John Lee, Scott Brick, Paul Boehm...

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Rudyard Kipling’s best-loved book is now the basis for the Netflix film Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Freida Pinto, and Rohan Chand

The story of Mowgli, the abandoned "man-cub" who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever... Read more

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: 9 from the Nine Worlds

By: Rick Riordan

Narrated by: Various

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved characters from the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series star in these hilarious and imaginative new short stories, each set in a different one of the Nine Worlds from Norse mythology.

The Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy may have concluded, but we haven't heard the last of our favorite peeps from the Nine Worlds. Join... Read more

The Sadness of Beautiful Things

By: Simon Van Booy

Narrated by: Simon Van Booy, Alana Kerr Collins, James Fouhe...

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy.
 
Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes readers into the innermost lives of everyday people. From a family... Read more

The Collected Stories of Diane Williams - Abridged

By: Diane Williams

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together over three hundred new and previously published short fictions—distilled works of "unsettling brilliance" (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of the American short story.



From Ben Marcus's introduction to The Collected Stories of Diane Williams:



"Diane Williams has spent her long,... Read more

Bedtime Stories for Sleepy Children

By: Joseph Jacobs, Andrew Lang, Aesop, Brothers Gri...

Narrated by: Nicki White, Matt Stewart & Bart Wolffe

Length: 1 hour 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of classic children’s stories to delight and entertain your little ones at bedtime. Read more

The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Other Stories

By: Beatrix Potter

Narrated by: Nicki White

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Stop a moment in the delightful world of Beatrix Potter and her animal friends. Read more

The Children's Book of Animal Stories

By: Beatrix Potter, Andrew Lang, E. Nesbit, Flora A...

Narrated by: Nicki White & Matt Stewart

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic short stories featuring favourites from the animal world. Read more

The Children's Book of Holiday Stories

By: L. Frank Baum, Andrew Lang, Brothers Grimm, Han...

Narrated by: Nicki White & Bart Wolffe

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic collection of holiday short stories for children featuring a kidnapped santa, busy elves and a brave tin soldier amongst others. Read more

Red Panda Adventures, Season 9

By: Gregg Taylor

Narrated by: Gregg Taylor, Clarissa Dernederlanden & The Dec...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Thrill once again to all-new, full-cast audio adventure in the tradition of the golden age of radio with The Red Panda Adventures, Season 9.The tides of war have finally begun to turn, but new and sinister forces are taking over crime in the city, with eerie connections to sinister, otherworldly forces defying death itself. Will the war be won,... Read more