Short Stories audiobooks

Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Groff presents nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.



In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a... Read more

Day of Atonement

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Decker of the L.A.P.D. never dreamed he'd be spending his honeymoon with his new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York—or that a terrible event would end it so abruptly. But a boy has vanished from the midst of this close-knit religious community, a troubled youth fleeing the tight bonds and strictures he... Read more

Sketches by Boz Volume 1

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens started his literary career as a journalist reporting for ‘The Morning Chronicle,’ a profession which encouraged his observing eye. This collection of essays and short stories was first published in that journal and anticipates, and frequently demonstrates, the genius that was to come. The Sketches ‘Illustrative of Everyday Life... Read more

The Minstrels of Bremen Collection

By: Uncredited

Narrated by: Ed Begley Jr.

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Included in this collection of charming and mesmerizing stories are The Minstrels of Brementown, Rudyard Kipling’s The Elephant’s Child, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Master of All Masters, Anasi’s Hat Shaking Dance and other enchanting tales. Read more

The Puss in Boots Collection

By: Uncredited

Narrated by: Margot Kidder

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Puss in Boots brings to life the tale of the clever cat who wins his kind master a fortune and wife. Children of all ages will enjoy The Frog Prince, The King of the Mountains, The Brave Little Tailor, The Rats of Hamlintown, The Fortunes of Moti and The Twelve Dancing Princesses, all included in this collection. Read more

The Emperor's New Clothes Collection

By: Uncredited

Narrated by: Margot Kidder

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Emperor's New Clothes is a classic account of a young boy's recognition of "wise cloth" for what it is. This story will entertain every child no matter what age with the many other stories in this collection. Read more

Death Marks Time in Trampas

By: T. T. Flynn

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Five magnificent western stories, in addition to the title story: Battle Hymn for a Lost Lawman -- Valley of the Damned -- Glory Blast -- Border Blood. Read more

Stories from the Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a collection of our very best stories by Rudyard Kipling about Mowgli and his animal friends as well as his most dangerous enemy, the tiger Shere Khan. Read more

Weight of Command

By: Ernest Haycox

Narrated by: Swede Colter

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Several travelers risk death, and worse, to reach Lordsburg, Arizona. Among them — an English hunter, a whiskey drummer, a young woman known only as Henriette, an army officer's fiancée, a gambler and Malpais Bill, who's on his way to a gunfight. The stage route crosses hostile Apache territory — and they will be spotted. Read more

The Wolf Hunter

By: Alan LeMay

Narrated by: Terence Aselford

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A demon coyote that's too fast to shoot and too smart to poison is closing in. Will the Wolf Hunter survive? Read more

The Gift of the Magi/The Last Leaf

By: O. Henry

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A poor young couple demonstrates the meaning of love and self-sacrifice in the Christmas Classic, "The Gift of the Magi". Also included is "The Last Leaf". This tale follows a young woman artist who is stricken with pneumonia. She watches the leafy vine opposite her window with hollow eyes, and she determines to stay alive until the last leaf... Read more

Nothing with Strings

By: Bailey White

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a decade, Bailey White has delivered a story each Thanksgiving to National Public Radio's All Things Considered listeners. Long awaited by her many fans, Nothing with Strings is the entire collection of these Thanksgiving stories, published together for the first time.



With wit and charm, White writes about an almost-gone little... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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