Short Stories audiobooks

The Perfect Arrangement

By: Katie Ganshert

Narrated by: Crestina Hardie

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

They’ve helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now twelve new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.Meeting Nate was truly an accident—but Amelia finds that he’s one of the few people she can count on.Amelia Woods is a small-town wallflower and the proud owner... Read more

Scenes from Village Life

By: Amos Oz

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds too. Where has the mayor’s wife gone, vanished without a trace, her note... Read more

Animal Crackers

By: Hannah Tinti

Narrated by: Laural Merlington & Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses. In these strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals become the litmus test of our deepest fears and longings. In the... Read more

Down to a Soundless Sea

By: Thomas Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a fiction debut that is cause for celebration. Growing up in a family that valued the art of storytelling and the power of oral history, Thomas Steinbeck now follows in his father's footsteps with a brilliant story collection.Down to a Soundless Sea resonates with the rich history and culture of California, recalling vivid details of... Read more

Pick-Up Game

By: Marc Aronson & Charles R. Smith Jr.

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in NYC, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of YA literature’s top writers... Read more

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

By: Kelly Link (Editor) & Gavin J. Grant (Editor)

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McMa...

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, Utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans—decked out... Read more

Scar Tissue

By: Marcus Sakey

Narrated by: Marcus Sakey

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE FOREWORD BY J.A. KONRATH: "Scar Tissue will make your heart race and your heart ache, often in the same sentence." Marcus Sakey's thrillers have won numerous awards and been translated into twenty languages. Celebrities like Ben Affleck and Tobey Maguire have snatched up his film rights. Now from the "modern master of suspense" (Chicago... Read more

The Fun Parts

By: Sam Lipsyte

Narrated by: Sam Lipsyte, Peter Berkrot, Deanna Hurst & Mich...

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A writer Time magazine has said “everybody should read,” Sam Lipsyte, author of the New York Times bestselling The Ask, offers up The Fun Parts, a book of bold, hilarious, and deeply felt fiction. A boy eats his way to self-discovery, while another must battle the reality-brandishing monster preying on his fantasy realm. In another story, an... Read more

Godforsaken Idaho

By: Shawn Vestal

Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Named “Outstanding 2013 Collection” by The Story Prize
Pushcart Prize WinnerIn this stunning debut, Shawn Vestal transports us to the afterlife, the rugged Northwest, and the early days of Mormonism. From “The First... Read more

Ordinary Life

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this superb collection of short stories, Elizabeth Berg takes us into remarkable moments in the lives of women, when memories and events come together to create a sense of coherence, understanding, and change. In “Ordinary Life,” Mavis McPherson locks herself in the bathroom for a week, shutting out her husband and the realities of their life... Read more

Sucker's Portfolio

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Available to readers for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never before published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one non-fiction piece are consummate Vonnegut with piercing satire and an eye for life’s... Read more

All the Rage

By: A. L. Kennedy

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

All the Rage was named to the shortlist of Best Short Story Collection by The Frank O’Connor PrizeA.L. Kennedy, the author of The Blue Book and Day, writes like a force of nature. Claire Messud says she’s “one of Britain’s most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents.” Richard Ford calls her “a profound writer,” and Ali Smith dubbed her... Read more

Chase Us

By: Sean Ennis

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautifully imaginative collection, young people attempt to negotiate the often surreal terrain of childhood and adolescence where family, friends, clergy, and teachers often pose a threat instead of providing safe harbor. At the heart of the collection is the relationship between the meek narrator, his best friend alpha-male Clip, and... Read more

Incendiary Girls

By: Kodi Scheer

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Incendiary Girls explores our baser instincts with vivid imagination and dark humor. In these stories, the body becomes strange and unfamiliar terrain, a medium for transformation. In “Fundamental Laws of Nature,” a doctor considers legacy, both good and bad, when she discovers her mother has been reincarnated as a Thoroughbred mare. The... Read more

The Serpent's Tale

By: Dana Cameron

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Serpent’s Tale” is a Fangborn story set in 13th-century England from the award-winning author of Seven Kinds of Hell.When the villagers of Godestone report a series of bizarre and troubling events, Sir Hugo, his heavily pregnant wife, Lady Alice, and her distant kinsman Father Gilbert are honor bound to investigate, for they are “born to... Read more

One Death, Nine Stories

By: Marc Aronson (Editor)

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Christina Traister

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas, Kevin. Age 19. Died at York Hospital, July 19, 2012. Kev's the first kid their age to die. And now, even though he's dead, he's not really gone. Even now his choices are touching the people he left behind. Rita Williams-Garcia follows one aimless teen as he finds a new life in his new job—at the mortuary. Ellen Hopkins reveals what two... Read more

Monstrous Affections

By: Kelly Link (Editor)

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate & Nick Podehl

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Predatory kraken that sing with—and for—their kin; band members and betrayed friends who happen to be demonic; harpies as likely to attract as to repel. Welcome to a world where humans live side-by-side with monsters, from vampires both nostalgic and bumbling, to an eight-legged alien who makes tea. Here you'll find mercurial forms that burrow... Read more

Shifting Shadows

By: Patricia Briggs

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author—including four all-new, original stories from the world of Mercy Thompson.Mercy Thompson’s world just got a whole lot bigger…A collection of all-new and previously published short stories featuring Mercy Thompson, “one of the best heroines in the urban fantasy genre today” (Fiction Vixen Book... Read more

White Tiger on Snow Mountain

By: David Gordon

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen hilarious, moving, and beautifully brutal stories by David Gordon, the award-winning author of Mystery Girl and The Serialist.In these funny, surprising, and touching stories, Gordon gets at the big stuff—art and religion, literature and madness, the supernatural, and the dark fringes of sexuality—in his own unique style, described by... Read more

Here in My Heart

By: Anna DeStefano

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Live and work together, or lose everything that matters…The ultimatum tilts Dru Hampton’s contented life in Chandlerville, Georgia, on its ear. The man that Vivian, her cantankerous boss and benefactor, wants Dru to partner with—live with—is Brad Douglas, who’s let Dru down every way a man can.Sheriff’s deputy Brad Douglas has come a long way... Read more

The Amateur

By: David Gordon

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man fleeing heartbreak back home meets a mysterious expat at a café in Paris. What begins as a friendly conversation between two outsiders soon transforms into a heart-pounding confession that threatens to shake both men to their cores. In this darkly funny, Sopranos-meets-Sebald page-turner by acclaimed mystery writer David Gordon,... Read more

Going to the Chapel

By: Rita Herron

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

If there’s a naughty list, Izzy Sassafras is on it—but she’s ready to make a new start this Christmas. Especially after leaving her lying, cheating, no-good husband and fleeing to her old hometown of Matrimony, Georgia. Izzy’s made herself a promise: no more men. All she wants to do is get her wedding business up and running—and mend fences with... Read more

Her Grave Secrets

By: Kendra Elliot

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

There are no secrets in a small town—until someone has one worth dying for.Local cop Stevie Taylor and police chief Zane Duncan have startling new proof that a deadly street drug is expanding its poisonous grip on their small town: a skull found on the banks of the Rogue River has two bullet holes in the back. Still caught up in the excitement... Read more

Things I'll Never Say

By: Ann Angel (Editor)

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Anne Flosnik, Amy Rubinate & Luke...

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen top young-adult authors let us in on some provocative secrets in this fascinating collection of short fiction that will have listeners talking.A baby no one knows about. A dangerous hidden identity. Hookups that are off-limits. A parent whose problems your friends won't understand. Everyone keeps secrets—from themselves, from their... Read more