Short Stories audiobooks

After the Quake

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Rupert Degas, Teresa Gallagher & Adam Sims

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1995, the physical and social landscape of Japan was transformed by two events: the Kobe earthquake, in January, which destroyed thousands of lives, and the poison-gas attacks in the Tokyo subways in March, during the morning rush hour. Following these twin disasters, Haruki Murakami abandoned his life abroad and returned home to confront his... Read more

Tales of Para Handy

By: Neil Munro

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Neil Munro's captivating tales of Para Handy, captain of the "Vital Spark", the "smertest" steamboat ever to sail the River Clyde.

Whatever happened to the shaggy dog story? Very few, if any seem to be published these days. Maybe our lives are all too pressurised and full-on to allow us to kick back and listen to an engaging, diverting, well-told... Read more

“All You Zombies—”

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring "All You Zombies—," the basis for the movie PredestinationThis collection from Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose origins—and relation to the young man—are more complex and... Read more

Contes et nouvelles

By: Nikolaï Gogol

Narrated by: Patrick Martinez Bournat

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

De très beaux textes où le réalisme côtoie le grotesque, le fantastique ou l'absurde et ne fait pas obstacle à un foisonnement imaginaire souvent débridé. Gogol, à travers ces "petites histoires", nous donne à découvrir sa vision de la société russe du XIXe siècle, une "peinture au scalpel" pleine d'ironie et souvent drôle. Nouvelles : La... Read more

A January Bride

By: Deborah Raney

Narrated by: Kristy Ragland

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A year’s worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.What will happen when novelist Madeleine Houser’s “pen pal” friendship with a lonely widower takes an unexpected turn?Who can work in a house that's overrun by contractors and carpenters? Not Madeleine Houser, a successful novelist who gladly... Read more

What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?

By: Avi

Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Jeff Woodman & Christina Moore

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Eve is haunted by her dead cats, Willie is not content to turn a blind eye to suffering, and Maria carries on lengthy conversations with a silent caller. Theirs are the odd, but strangely realistic stories you will find in this collection. Avi's stories address real concerns in a way young people can relate to. Always entertaining, they broach... Read more

You Only Get Letters From Jail

By: Jodi Angel

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & T. Ryder Smith

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Jodi Angel' s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom' s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars,... Read more

A White Bible

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Maureen is an English teacher, and she's had a long day. All she wants is a relaxing night out with friends, a few beers, and maybe the chance to forget the troubles of her past: the gambling ex-husband and the daughter who'd thrown her life away sleeping with married men. But her night—and maybe her life—is thrown off track when she leaves the... Read more

Collected Stories

By: Lewis Shiner

Narrated by: multivoice, David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabriell...

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected Stories is the definitive compilation of Lewis Shiner's short work, featuring over forty stories voiced by top narrators in the business. Contents include:Introduction, read by Karen Joy Fowler "Perfidia," read by Stefan Rudnicki "Stuff of Dreams," read by John Rubinstein "The War at Home," read by Stefan Rudnicki "Straws," read by... Read more

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

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

Nightingale

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Booth drives his son, Owen, to Fort Steele Academy, where he hopes his son will thrive in a structured, disciplined environment that mirrors Booth’s own upbringing. But after he drops Owen off at his new school, he’s filled with a deep sense of doubt—about his decision to send his son away, about his childhood—and finds himself lost in more... Read more

Down to Bone

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A son sits at his mother's deathbed, hesitant to leave her side. He leafs through one of her old photo albums, remembering her abusive, estranged father. When a visit to a funeral home turns into a conversation with a beautiful, mysterious woman, he develops a deeper—and perhaps darker—understanding of his relationship with his mother. Read more

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Tobias Wolff's masterful short story about one woman's quiet revenge on the pomposity and arrogance of academiaMeticulous, funny, eccentric—Mary has always been mindful of the complex role she plays as a professor of history. Her lectures are carefully written out beforehand; her departmental loyalties ambiguous. She is so careful, in fact, that... Read more

Next Door

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An introspective story of neighbors, movies, and marriage from short-story master Tobias WolffLying stiffly in their separate beds, a husband and his wife are woken in the middle of the night to the sound of their fighting neighbors. There are three of them—a man, a woman, and a young child. With their blasting stereos, violent interludes, and... Read more

Hunters in the Snow

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An unnerving tale of self-absorption and deception by short-story master Tobias WolffThree friends are leaving the suburbs of Spokane on a hunting trip. Kenny is the prankster, harsh and mean. Frank is laid-back and full of idealism. Tub is overweight, sensitive, and the brunt of everyone's jokes. Searching for tracks in the snow, the trio has... Read more

The Liar

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Tobias Wolff's classic tales, "The Liar" is the story of a deceitful teenage boy and his religious, resolute mother.James is a liar. He enjoys inventing fantastic stories about his family, particularly his mother. Margaret is orderly, stubborn, and judgmental—a woman who throws rocks at hungry bears and never misses four o'clock Mass. She... Read more

Soldier’s Joy

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful tale of life after war by short-story master Tobias WolffHooper, a Vietnam veteran, finds himself at an army base in Washington State. His days are uneventful, filled with mundane duties, empty conversations, and the occasional jaunt with a married woman.A phone call in the middle of the night breaks Hooper's predictable routine. One... Read more

The Rich Brother

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic tale of brotherly love and rivalry from short story master Tobias WolffPete has always been successful. Happily married with two daughters, he lives a comfortable life in Santa Cruz. Pete is a practical, hardworking man and he enjoys life's monetary pleasures. His younger brother, Donald, is a gaunt, troubled man. Unmarried and without... Read more

Leviathan

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Two drugged-out couples contemplate life and morality in "Leviathan," a classic short story by the masterful Tobias Wolff.For Helen's thirtieth birthday party, her husband decides to throw her a small party. Armed with booze and three grams of cocaine, the four partyers—Helen, her husband, and another couple—spend the night and the next morning... Read more

Desert Breakdown, 1968

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark's parents have never done a thing for him. When he got out of the army and married Krystal, they were against it, just as they are against his moving to Los Angeles. But Mark has a dream, a dream of being an entertainer, of having a show in Las Vegas. So he packs Krystal and their son, Hans, into their car and starts driving from Arizona to... 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

Flyboys

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short story from Our Story Begins, three friends confront their relationships to one another as they work on plans to build their very own airplane.Clark's parents are rich, supplying the boys with all they need to follow their pursuits, making films and building catapults. Meanwhile, Freddy's family is dealing with the loss of his older... Read more