Short Stories audiobooks

Levanta, princesa, a abóbora virou carruagem (Integral)

By: Josy Stoque

Narrated by: Daniela Schimitz

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Se por apenas um dia você tivesse a chance de pensar somente em você e esquecer que existem responsabilidades como trabalho, marido e filhos? E se você se permitisse não apenas fantasiar, mas finalmente realizar? O que você faria? Feche os olhos da consciência, não se julgue por seu egoísmo e viaje pelas linhas deste conto, colocando suas... Read more

Mad Country

By: Samrat Upadhyay

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Samrat Upadhyay's thrilling new collection brings stories of thieves, lovers, political prisoners, fractured families, and of Nepali-Americans attempting to navigate the strange customs of the United States. It reaffirms Upadhyay's brilliant contributions to the international literature of exile. Read more

The Open Source Woman

By: J. Daniel Sawyer

Narrated by: J. Daniel Sawyer

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody lies - especially when dating. Fortunately, Luke has your back. A self-appointed honesty enforcer, he volunteers at bars using VR optics and data mining in his quest to referee the game of love. He'll keep you honest and send you home happy...if you play fair.But a world without secrets holds all kinds of surprises, even for Luke -... Read more

Final Farewell

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Brad Meltzer

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Brad's favorite short story he ever wrote. Originally published in USA Weekend magazine for their Summer Fiction Series. Read more

Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne (ungekürzt)

By: Thomas Brasch

Narrated by: Florian Schmidtke

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Braschs Debüt "Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne" erschien 1977, wurde ein großer Erfolg und machte Brasch schlagartig bekannt. "Zuerst spürte ich seinen Kopf, der stark auf meine Blase drückte, und einige Minuten später den Schwanz, der in meinem Mund wedelte. Ich wollte nicht darüber nachdenken, wie der Wolf in mich hineingekommen war... Read more

La última pregunta

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Raúl Lloréns

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

La última pregunta, una obra maestra de la ciencia ficción, es, tal y como afirmó su autor en repetidas ocasiones, «por encima de toda duda, mi favorita entre todas las historias que he escrito en mi carrera». ¿Es posible revertir el inevitable final del Universo, o el mundo debe acabar de todas formas? es la pregunta que desde un día del siglo... Read more

El diario de Adán y Eva

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Carlos Manuel Vesga & Natalia Helo

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Un relato en el que Mark Twain pone de manifiesto sus hilarantes y poco ortodoxas opiniones sobre la religión, ahora para escuchar. «Me gusta una buena historia bien contada. Por esta razón, a veces me veo obligado a contarlas yo mismo». Con estas palabras Mark Twain, según Hemingway, el padre indiscutible de la literatura estadounidense,... Read more

El hombre bicentenario

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Raúl Lloréns

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Un clásico entre los clásicos de la ciencia ficción, ahora disponible en formato audiolibro. «Esta historia, que apareció por primera vez en 1976, fue mi exposición más clarividente del desarrollo de los robots. Trataba del deseo de un robot de convertirse en hombre y la forma en que realizaba este deseo, paso a paso. No tenía intención de... Read more

Guys Read: Heroes & Villains

By: Jon Scieszka, Christopher Healy, Sharon Creech,...

Narrated by: Michael Curran-Dorsano, David DeSantos, Lucien ...

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Heroes & Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read Library of Great Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring an array of characters—with and without capes.Featuring ten all-new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, and featuring eleven of the most acclaimed, exciting... Read more

Cuentos de Eva Luna

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Juanita Devis

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Disfruta escuchando estos veintitrés relatos de amor y violencia secretamente entrelazados por un fino hilo narrativo y un rico lenguaje que recrea azarosas peripecias en un mundo exuberante y voluptuoso. Una niña solitaria se enamora del amante de su madre y practica misteriosas ceremonias rituales; una mujer permanece medio siglo encerrada en... Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: David Shaw-Parker

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face... Read more

Everything I Never Told You

By: Patrice M Foster

Narrated by: Jennifer L. Vorpahl

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Is there such a thing as a perfect parent? This heart-wrenching novel tells the story of a mother asking herself just that. Her children have grown up and aren’t dependant on her, and so she finds herself left alone with her thoughts – many of them fond memories, others are thoughts of regret. Had she gotten things right as a mother? 
Follow this... Read more

Mother Goose in Prose

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Mother Goose in Prose is a collection of twenty-two children's stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes. It was the first children's book written by author L. Frank Baum, published in 1897. The author himself gives a great introduction to the book: "Many of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves, telling their story tersely... Read more

Shadows in the Moonlight

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Shadows in the Moonlight, starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian (a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian), the story is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan escaping to a remote island in the Vilayet Sea where he encounters the Red Brotherhood, a skulking creature, and mysterious iron statues. Oh, and there's also a... Read more

A Witch Shall Be Born

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Edward Miller

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A Witch Shall Be Born is one of the original novells by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian (a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian). The story concerns a witch replacing her twin sister as queen of a city state, which brings her into conflict with Conan who had been the captain of the queen's guard. Themes of paranoia, and the duality of the twin... Read more

Shadows in Zamboula

By: Robert E. Howard

Narrated by: Arthur Vincet

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original Conan the Cimmerian (a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian) books, first published in 1935. Its original title was The Man-Eaters of Zamboula. The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the... Read more

For a Little While

By: Rick Bass

Narrated by: Rick Bass

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Long considered one of the most gifted practitioners of the short story, Rick Bass is unsurpassed in his ability to perceive and portray the enduring truths of the human heart. Now, at last, we have the definitive collection of stories, new and old, from the writer Newsweek has called "an American classic." To read his fiction is to feel more... Read more

The Secret of the Barbican

By: J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.

The Secret of the Barbican is the story of a small-town solicitor who on a chance... Read more

The Disappearing Andersons of Loon Lake

By: Jess Wells

Narrated by: Jess Wells

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Love, loss, irony and humor abound in the lives of eight families living around Loon Lake, a shallow fishing spot in Northern Michigan. Whether it’s the story of a young dreamer and a bully; a man looking forward to retirement and the family that stands in his way; a teacher facing ethical choices; or a family coping with disaster, these stories... Read more

Great Half Hour Stories

By: H. G. Wells, J. S. Fletcher & Various Authors

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping collection of 30 minute stories by some of the greatest storytellers in the English language.

'Mrs. Amworth' by E. F. Benson
'The Trade Wind' by Morgan Robertson.
'The Ghost Club' by John Kendrick Bangs
'The Grinding of the Mills' by Morgan Robertson
'Aepyornis Island' by H. G. Wells
'The Last Trump' by Hugh Walpole
'Count Magnus' by E. F.... Read more

The Man in the Fur Coat

By: J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.

'The Man in the Fur Coat' is a fast-paced adventure in which a young journalist on... Read more

Room 53

By: J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story. 'Room 53' tells the story of Beatrice, a bookaholic hotel chambermaid. When a guest... Read more

The Permanent Tenant

By: J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.

'The Permanent Tenant' is the story of a loyal dog, Boris, whose master disappeared... Read more

Skinflint

By: J. S. Fletcher

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and nonfiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian golden age of the short story.

Skinflint is a bittersweet tale of an embittered middle-aged woman who has never... Read more