Short Stories audiobooks
What Language is That (A Story from Say You're One of Them)
By: Uwem Akpan
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets... Read more
View audiobookAn Ex-Mas Feast (A Story from Say You're One of Them)
By: Uwem Akpan
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 1 hour
Abridged: No
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets... Read more
View audiobookThe Celebrated Jumping Frog of Caleveras County
By: Mark Twain
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Leonidas W. Smiley would bet on anything. Horse races, dog fights, cat fights, chicken fights - all were fair game to the gambling nature of Smiley. But he meets his match when a stranger comes into town, and puts his champion jumping frog to the test. Read more
View audiobookThe Monkey's Paw
By: W. W. Jacobs
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 27 minutes
Abridged: No
When Sergeant Major Morris brings a mummified monkeyโs paw to the White family, they embrace it as a morbid curiosity. When they learn that an old Fakir has enchanted the paw, they continue to treat the thing lightly. But the workings of the paw, once set in motion, cannot be undone, no matter what they try. Read more
View audiobookThe Gingerbread Girl
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Mare Winningham
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running -- barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the... Read more
View audiobookLaw of the Desert Born
By: Louis L'Amour
Narrated by: Dramatization
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A PRIZED COLLECTION OF AMERICAN FICTIONโFROM AMERICAโS FAVORITE STORYTELLER
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This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis LโAmour showcases the legendary writer at his very best: spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend... Read more
In Our Time
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 3 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingwayโs American debut.
When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American... Read more
The Magic Shop
By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Simple magic tricks are what a little boy is looking for when he drags his father into a quaint, old shop. The proprietor seems to be a master of illusion - a genius at slight of hand. But, as the son becomes mesmerized, the father feels an icy hand grip his heart. Read more
View audiobookThe Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted
By: Elizabeth Berg
Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention
Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation.
What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you... Read more
Winner Take Nothing
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are โA Clean, Well-Lighted Place,โ a story about one manโs night in a cafรฉ; โHomage to Switzerlandโ... Read more
View audiobookPilgrims
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The debut by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls; a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book
When it appeared in 1997, Elizabeth Gilbertโs story collection, Pilgrims, immediately announced her compelling voice, her comic touch, and her amazing ear for dialogue. โThe heroes of... Read more
Men without Women
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship.
First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingwayโs most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war,... Read more
Armageddon in Retrospect
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Rip Torn
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Fiveโa โgrippingโ posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegutโs previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace.
A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve previously unpublished writings. Imbued... Read more
Unaccustomed Earth
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Sarita Choudhury & Ajay Naidu
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prizeโwinning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand.
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In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his... Read more
Our Story Begins
By: Tobias Wolff
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Tobias Wolffโs first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World,ย proved how the short story can โprovoke our amazed appreciationโ (New York Times Book Review). In the years since, heโs written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as several other astounding works.ย Now he returns with fresh... Read more
View audiobookThe Red-Headed League
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In "The Red-Headed League", the legendary Sherlock Holmes catches one of London's most daring criminals while investigating the strange business of the League, a suspicious organization that gives its members money for "nominal work". Read more
View audiobookAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
By: Ambrose Bierce
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of stories of the supernatural, of ghosts and "strange doings" by a master teller of tales. Includes these stories: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge; The Damned Thing; A Watcher by the Dead; An Inhabitant of Carcosa; The Famous Gilson Bequest; The Eyes of the Panther; The Secret of Macarger's Gulch; The Night-Doings at Deadman's Read more
View audiobookThe World of Saki
By: H.H. Munro
Narrated by: Alexander Spencer
Length: 2 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The finest champagne, dry and light, ever decanted into a book, are these 16 short stories, including: EsmE; Tobermory; Mrs. Packeltide's Tiger; Sredni Vashtar; The Easter Egg; The Open Window and others. Read more
View audiobookThe World of O.Henry
By: O. Henry
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
If you think of classic literature as dry and dusty reading that you have to force yourself to get through, then prepare to change your mind. Not only are these stories witty and entertaining, they are laugh-out-loud funny to boot! Does the 300-year-old ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville really exist? And if he does, will the rambunctious Otis... Read more
View audiobookThe Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 4 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.
Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of... Read more
The World of Jack London
By: Jack London
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
With these stories: To the Man on Trail; DiablE-a Dog; To Build a Fire; The Law of Life; An Odyssey of the North; Moonface; The One Thousand Dozen; and All Gold Canyon. Read more
View audiobookAtomic Lobster
By: Tim Dorsey
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Why is everyone rushing to flee Tampa on a cruise ship to hell?Serge is back with a bullet, torn between homicide and souvenirs. So is Coleman, torn between getting hammered and getting more hammered. Then there's good ol' Jim Davenport, the E-Team, the Diaz Brothers, and Johnny Vegas, the Accidental Virgin, cranking up the fevered action as the... Read more
View audiobookSacred and Profane
By: Faye Kellerman
Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight...Two human skeletons, charred beyond... Read more
View audiobookCakewalk
By: Lee Smith
Narrated by: Linda Stephens, Tom Stechschulte & Kate Forbes
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Lee Smith, one of today's finest writers in the Southern literary tradition, has been compared to Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. This collection of nine stories, ranging from poignant ballads to delightfully inventive forms, showcases Smith's celebrated talent. The stories will make you chuckle and leave you with a satisfying sense that no... Read more
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