Short Stories audiobooks

The Shawl

By: Cynthia Ozick

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Two award-winning works of fiction by one of America's finest writers, together in one collection.



In "The Shawl," a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In "Rosa," that same woman appears thirty years later, "a mad woman and a scavenger" in a Miami hotel. She has no life in the present because her past... Read more

Just After Sunset

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Graham, G...

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

2010 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections

Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise... Read more

Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm & Charles Perrault

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Perrault's classic and timeless "Cinderella" holds a special place in all children's hearts. Sweet, beautiful Cinderella is cruelly mistreated by her evil stepmother and stepsisters until her magical fairy godmother appears, turns Cinderella's rags into a sumptuous ball gown, and sends her off to win the heart of the handsome prince.... Read more

The Mark of the Beast

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man. Read more

The Jungle Book, with eBook

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Oh hear the call!—Good hunting all / That keep the Jungle Law!" —Night-Song in the Jungle



When young little Mowgli's parents are run out of their camp by a formidable Bengal tiger, the toddler scampers to safety alone in the cave of a Seeonee wolf pack. Thereafter, forest animals succor Mowgli, and through his wits and their kindness, he... Read more

The Hand

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A withered, shriveled, severed human hand is kept chained in a corner. The "owner" of this morbid trophy always keeps three loaded revolvers in the same room. Nothing seems too suspicious until the hand is mysteriously reclaimed. Read more

Honor Bar

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

What He Needed

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

A Good Fuck Spoiled

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

Femme Fatale

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

Easy as A-B-C

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

Ropa Vieja

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

Scratch a Woman

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

Black-Eyed Susan

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

ARM and the Woman

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

The Babysitter's Code

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

The Crack Cocaine Diet

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

Pony Girl

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

The Shoeshine Man's Regrets

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eyeTess Monaghan and Whitney Talbot witness an altercation between a boorish restaurant patron and a shoeshine man. When it is discovered that the mild-mannered shoeshine man is wanted for a murder that occurred 40 years in the past, a... Read more

One True Love

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond & Francois Battiste

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan as well as three critically lauded stand-alone novels, Lippman now turns her attention to... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie. Read more

Sandhill County Lines

By: Clay Reynolds

Narrated by: Julia Gibson, Cynthia Darlow, Larry Pine & Jeff...

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Comprising nine hardscrabble tales set across the great state of Texas and beyond, Sandhill County Lines is a triumph from author Clay Reynolds. Off the beaten path, concealed behind the weather-worn clapboard walls of decaying farm houses, desperate folk struggle and strive. These are their stories. "Clay Reynolds's stories are earthy, frank,... Read more

Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

You are probably familiar with the popularized stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but have you heard the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In "Rip Van Winkle," Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes that were... Read more