Short Stories audiobooks

Deep Kiss

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When Joe Reed was a teenager, he fell so deeply in love with Mary Claude Moore that his parents threatened to send him away. Decades later, he's living a normal life with his wife and their two children; yet in the thirty years since he's last seen Mary Claude, he hasn't stopped thinking of her. With recent news of her in hand, Joe begins to... Read more

Beginnings and Ends

By: Suzanne Brockmann

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Suzanne Brockmann, bestselling author of When Tony Met Adam and the pulse-pounding Troubleshooters series, has been hailed by USA Today as a "superstar of romantic suspense." In this original short story, Brockmann returns with two of her most beloved characters from the Troubleshooters world: operative Jules Cassidy and his husband, Robin.After... Read more

Bark

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Lorrie Moore

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore" (Harper's).A literary event—a new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers, her first collection in fifteen years.In these... Read more

Joe Ledger: Special Ops

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Joe Ledger—former cop, former Army Ranger, and currently the top-kick of Echo Team, an elite squad of first-class shooters who roll out to face down the world's most dangerous terrorists. Not fanatics with explosive vests or political hostage takers. Joe and his team square off against terrorists who have the most advanced and exotic... Read more

Showdown Trail

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon," Mike Bastian has been raised by outlaw chief Ben Curry and trained in frontier skills by Curry's most trusted associates. Curry now wants to retire from leadership of the gang he has headed for years. But he is frustrated in this ambition by... Read more

Stories of the Golden West, Book 5

By: Jon Tuska, Zane Grey, Max Brand & Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of classic Western tales"Ca+¦on Walls" by Zane GreySmoke Bellew enters a remote Mormon settlement only a jump ahead of a posse. Finding employment as a ranch hand working for a dowager Mormon, Smoke finds that his life undergoes a transformation and he is able to make her ranch a financial success, at the same time falling in love... Read more

Stories of the Golden West, Book 3

By: Jon Tuska, Louis L’Amour, Zane Grey & Max Brand

Narrated by: Christopher Lane & Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of classic Western talesTappan's Burro by Zane GreyProspecting was lonely business for Tappan, but his burro Jenet was good company, and she knew the trails and waterholes better than Tappan. She tracked with him, faithful, his only friend. And he repays her with a final, supreme effort of heart, will, and spirit.Jargan by Max... Read more

West of the Tularosa

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents eight of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories—history that lives forever."Mistakes Can Kill You"Johnny O'Day, once rescued by the Redlin family, may be the only one who can save Sam... Read more

Man Riding West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories—history that lives forever."Riding for the Brand"After a narrow escape, Jed Asbury comes across a derelict covered wagon, the people and... Read more

Trailing West

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L’Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America’s favorite Western author.“Trap of Gold”Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color in a crumbling... Read more

Law of the Desert

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Collected here are seven stories penned by America's favorite Western author.The Black Rock Coffin MakersTwo men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch: Jim Walker and... Read more

The Rider of the Ruby Hills

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & Jim Gough

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened."The Rider... Read more

A Man Called Trent

By: Louis L’Amour

Narrated by: Jim Gough

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two exciting stories featuring Lance Kilkenny by beloved Western writer Louis L'AmourIn "A Man Called Trent," nester Dick Moffitt lies dead, killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned by a man called "Trent"—an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to... Read more

Night Ride, and Other Journeys

By: Charles Beaumont

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Stefan Rudnicki & Harlan Ellison

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For the oddball in you, flights into the sinister and fantasticThe stories in this third collection from a master of speculative fiction are at once playful and dark, but each is wonderfully told.Contents include The Music of the Yellow Brass A Classic Affair The New People Buck Fever The Magic Man Father, Dear Father Perchance to Dream Song for... Read more

Deadman’s Road

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Deadwood meets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gunslinging preacher.The Wild West has never seen the likes of the Reverend Jebidiah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible in the battle between God and the devil, in an endless struggle he's not sure he cares who... Read more

If I Knew You Were Going to Be This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go

By: Judy Chicurel

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Pam Houston's Cowboys Are My Weakness—a novel in stories about a young woman and her town in the early 1970sIt is the summer of 1972, and Katie has just turned eighteen. Katie and her town, Elephant Beach, are both on the verge: Katie of adulthood, Elephant Beach of gentrification—but not yet. Elephant Beach is still gritty,... Read more

Necronomicon

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Richard Powers, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Tho...

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The only audio edition of Necronomicon authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft EstateOriginally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, H. P. Lovecraft’s astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft’s... Read more

Mortal Coils

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Mortal Coils is a collection of five pieces, which were written by Aldous Huxley in the 1920s. The first one, "The Giaconda Smile," is a short murder story. "Permutations among the Nightingales" is a play concerning amorous problems had by patrons of a certain establishment. "The Tillotson Banquet" tells of an old artist who was thought to be... Read more

Emerald City

By: Jennifer Egan

Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse, Madeleine Lambert & Charlie...

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

These eleven masterful stories—the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora,... Read more

Baseball in April and Other Stories

By: Gary Soto

Narrated by: Stephanie Diaz & Miguel Gongora

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Gary Soto, an award-winning poet, is renowned for getting at the heart of a young person’s everyday life. In these eleven stories, performed with spice and energy by young actors Stephanie Diaz and Miguel Gongora, Soto again scores. With a sensitivity and humor born from his own experiences while growing up in California’s Central Valley, the... Read more

Snowflakes in a Clear Night Sky

By: Jamie Sutliff

Narrated by: Jamie Sutliff

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This short-story collection contains ten tales based on a diverse range of subjects, from true crime to historical fiction and fantasy. The title story, "Snowflakes in a Clear Night Sky," is based on Native American folklore. "A Dark Quiet Place" is based on a true-crime incident involving a troubled boy and gun violence. In "Adirondak Mountains... Read more

The Night and the Music

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Lawrence Block

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Lawrence Block presents a rich volume of novelettes, short stories, and vignettes starring private eye Matthew Scudder. Lawrence Block’s seventeen Matthew Scudder novels have won the hearts of readers throughout the world—along with a bevy of awards including the Edgar, the Shamus, the Philip Marlowe (Germany), and the... Read more

A Coward

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Penned in 1899 by Edith Wharton, this short story features the proper Mrs. Carstyle, her husband Mr. Carstyle, and their daughter Irene who are all are taken with their guest and an eligible bachelor named Vibart. Narrator John Chancer is a film and television actor with professional readings of many audiobooks to his credit. Read more

A Piece of String

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

How does picking up a piece of string lead to a poor old man’s death? Find out in this Guy de Maupassant tale, narrated by actor Cornelius Garrett. Read more