Short Stories audiobooks

The Benefit of the Doubt

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

While on a crowded bus near the Vatican, a man named Mallon—visiting Italy on business—feels someone reaching into his pockets, searching for his wallet. He elbows the pickpocket, seriously injuring the man. Driven by his guilty conscience, Mallon finds himself peering in on the life of an unfamiliar culture and learning more about the world... Read more

Powder

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With his marriage on the rocks, a father takes his son skiing for the weekend. After insisting on staying just a bit longer—despite a growing blizzard—the boy's father finds they're snowed in at the resort, the road blockaded by state troopers. To what lengths will he go to keep his marriage intact? Read more

Lady’s Dream

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady, suffocating in the car on a hot summer's day, slips into a feverish dream. Robert, her husband, watches her slip into unconsciousness as he drives. He's a soldier, a man of principle, well-educated and well-adjusted. But Robert is also a man with an agenda; he has married this young, wild lower-class girl to spite his father, and now he... Read more

Say Yes

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ann's friends envy her. None of their husbands even lift a finger to help with the household chores. Ann's husband is different, though. Then a simple hypothetical conversation while they wash and dry the dishes causes Ann to see her husband in a different light—and causes him to rethink the way two people can know one another. Read more

Mortals

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Givens' obituary is nothing remarkable, hardly something to remember at all. He led a quiet life, served in the Army, was married to the same woman for forty-two years, and worked at the same job practically his whole life. He wasn't a baseball player or a movie star, he was the furthest thing from a celebrity. In fact, the only thing... Read more

High School Writing Project 2.0 Anthology Short Story Collection

By: Steven Roberts, Danica Myerson, Lois Young & Se...

Narrated by: Jeannie Lin

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Friends. Fun. Romance. Drama. Danger. Tragedy. HIGH SCHOOL.High School Writing Project 2.0 features short stories and flash fiction written by high school students about teenage characters. The stories in this edition touch on a variety of subjects including teenage suicide, mental illness, superstition, romance, and ESP.Short stories included... Read more

Man Seeking Woman

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Author

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In "Center of the Universe," God struggles to balance the demands of his career with the needs of his long-term girlfriend. In "Magical Mr. Goat," a young girl's imaginary friend yearns to become "more than friends." In "Unprotected," an unused prophylactic recalls his years spent trapped inside a teen boy's wallet. The stories in Simon Rich's... Read more

Triple Threat

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Kevin T. Collins

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From Jeffery Deaver--the New York Times bestselling author of the upcoming Lincoln Rhyme novel THE KILL ROOM (on sale June 4, 2013)--come three powerful new short stories.
In "Fast", Kathryn Dance races against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell--with the lives of 200 people hanging in the balance. In "Game," a... Read more

A December Bride

By: Denise Hunter

Narrated by: Julie Lyles Carr

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Hallmark Channel movie!From bestselling author Denise Hunter comes a classic love story filled with the spirit of Christmas where a fake engagement leads to real feelings.What started as a whim turned into an accidental--and very public--engagement. Can Layla and Seth keep up the façade in Chapel Springs this holiday season--for the sake... Read more

A Source of Irritation

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel Prize winner (and Forsyte Saga author) John Galsworthy described Stacy Aumonier as ‘one of the best short-story writers of all time’ and predicted that, through the best of his stories, he would ‘outlive all the writers of his day’. A Source of Irritation is one such story.

Sam Gates, an elderly and somewhat irritable agricultural labourer,... Read more

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful collection of ten of Guy de Maupassant's most famous tales:
• The Parrot
• The Love of Long Ago
• Mademoiselle Fifi
• Miss Harriet
• An Uncomfortable Bed
• A Queer Night in Paris
• My Uncle Jules
• The Piece of String
• The Necklace
• Found on a Drowned Man Read more

The Famous Race between the Hearse and the Steamroller

By: Sidney Keyes

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sidney Keyes' great allegorical tale of a race between a newfangled steamroller with a top speed of five miles per hour and a horse-drawn hearse, whose two old nags are accustomed to a stately pace appropriate to the transportation of the dead.



The race takes on a wider significance as an allegory of progress and the advent of the age of the... Read more

The Brothers

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of two brothers, who could not be more opposite, experience the Great War in different ways.

Giles, the elder, popular, sporty brother enlists as a soldier. Robin, the younger, sickly brother is rejected when he tries to join up. Yet a mysterious bond exists between the brothers.

When Giles leaves for the trenches, it is as though Robin... Read more

Where Was Wych Street?

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody remembers Wych Street, a road in London which no longer exists. But nobody can agree on exactly where it used to run.

Stacy Aumonier's classic story follows the catastrophic events sparked by a dispute over the location of the elusive street, from pub brawls and murders, to the infamous siege of Aztec Street, to the ignominious ending... Read more

The Short Stories of Stacy Aumonier

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Stacy Aumonier was a British writer, best known for his outstanding short stories. Nobel prize winner, John Galsworthy described Aumonier as "one of the best short-story writers of all time" and predicted that he would "outlive all the writers of his day".

Aumonier wrote over 85 short stories in his lifetime. He has been described as the "British... Read more

Old Fags

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel Prize winner (and Forsyte Saga author) John Galsworthy described Stacy Aumonier as ‘one of the best short-story writers of all time’ and predicted that, through the best of his stories, he would ‘outlive all the writers of his day’. "Old Fags" is one of Stacy Aumonier's most memorable stories. Set in a miserable and overcrowded block of... Read more

Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The small minded and prudish sister of an English clergyman travels on her own to a hotel in Bordeaux. When she closes the door of her room after returning from a bath, she finds a man asleep on the bed.

She realises then she is in the wrong room, but the door handle has come off in her hand, and she can’t get out. Then she discovers the man is... Read more

Juxtapositions

By: Stacy Aumonier

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Stacy Aumonier's best loved short stories, telling the story of a surprising evening with Colin St Clair Chasseloup: "the kind of man who always looked as though he had just had a cold bath, done Swedish drill, and then passed through the hairdresser’s on his way to your presence." Chasseloup and the narrator are dragged along by their... Read more

Admiral

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in Harper's and selected for The Best American Short Stories, 2008 by Salman Rushdie.In high school Nisha worked as a dog-sitter for the Strikers, eccentric millionaires, taking care of their prized Afghan, Admiral. When she returns after college to tend to her ill mother,... Read more

The Idiot

By: Arnold Bennett

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When William Froyle, ostler at the Queen's Arms at Moorthorne, learns that his betrothed has betrayed him, he determines to hang himself in the inn's coach house. His first, unsuccessful attempt, is witnessed by Daft Jimmy, the village idiot. Daft Jimmy offers to help with the process of fixing the noose and takes a great deal of interest and... Read more

Wild Child

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the title story from the collection Wild Child and was originally published in McSweeney's.It is at the end of the eighteenth century, in the new French Republic, when the savage is first seen outside the village of Lacaune. The boy quickly becomes a legend among the townsfolk. Is he truly a human child or a wild beast?"Wild Child" is... Read more

Three Quarters of the Way to Hell

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in Playboy.It's the middle of a snow storm, and Johnny Bandon, a washed up crooner in the style of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, is getting ready to record a Christmas single. The session musicians are there, and so is his backup singer. Darlene Delmar is a down and out... Read more

Anacapa

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from Wild Child was originally published in A Public Space.Reeling from his second divorce, Hunter is taken out on a party boat by his old college roommate, Damian. Looking forward to the promise of distraction, and maybe even the chance to meet a woman, Hunter acquiesces to the fishing adventure, despite his tendency toward... Read more

Balto

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the Paris Review and selected for The Best American Short Stories, 2007 by Stephen King.Angelle's father is a drunk, and Angelle and her little sister, Lisette, know it. Their mother has told them as much. But their mother has abandoned them and gone back to France,... Read more