Short Stories audiobooks

Finding West

By: Courtney Shockey

Narrated by: Sarah Grant

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Selene Gale was used to being alone. Her routine was the same every day. Her average job caused mild headaches and offered no excitement. Her drive home was painfully slow on most days. But at night, her dreams took her to an amazing place, full of magic, wonder, and happiness. Not to mention the golden Adonis that stole her breath away each... Read more

A Life of Adventure and Delight

By: Akhil Sharma

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta & Neil Shah

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman in an arranged marriage awakens one day surprised to find herself in love with her husband. A retired divorcé tries to become the perfect partner by reading women's magazines. A man's long-standing contempt for his cousin suddenly shifts inward when he witnesses his cousin caring for a sick woman. The protagonists in A Life of... Read more

All That Man Is

By: David Szalay

Narrated by: Sean Barrett, Mark Meadows & Huw Parmenter

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving—in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel—to understand what it means to be alive, here and now. Tracing a dramatic arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old... Read more

Back Talk

By: Danielle Lazarin

Narrated by: Reba Buhr

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Floor Plans," a woman at the end of her marriage tests her power when she inadvertently befriends the neighbor trying to buy her apartment. In "Appetite," a sixteen-year old grieving her mother’s death experiences first love and questions how much more heartbreak she and her family can endure. In "Dinosaurs," a recent widower and a young... Read more

Fires

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

More than sixty stories, poems, and essays are included in this wide-ranging collection by the extravagantly versatile Raymond Carver. Two of the stories—later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver's... Read more

Call If You Need Me

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, in this book, is Raymond Carver's complete uncollected fiction and nonfiction, including the five posthumously discovered "last" stories, found a decade after Carver's death.



Call If You Need Me includes all of the prose previously collected in No Heroics, Please, four essays from Fires, and those five marvelous stories that range over the... Read more

Short Cuts

By: Raymond Carver

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The nine stories and one poem in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of "one of the true... Read more

The Price of the Haircut

By: Brock Clarke

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman & P.J. Ochlan

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From an acclaimed and original writer comes a new collection of stories bursting with absurdist plot twists and laced with trenchant wit. Brock Clarke, author of An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England and Exley, among other novels, now offers up bite-sized morsels of his trademark social satire that will have listeners laughing,... Read more

Jagannath

By: Karin Tidbeck

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the weird world of Karin Tidbeck, the visionary Swedish author of literary sci-fi, speculative fiction, and mind-bending fantasy who has captivated readers around the world. Originally published by the tiny... Read more

Going for a Beer

By: Robert Coover

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Coover has been playing by his own rules for more than half a century, earning the 1987 Rea Award for the Short Story as "a writer who has managed, willfully and even perversely, to remain his own man while offering his generous vision and versions of America."



Coover finds inspiration in everything from painting, cinema, theater, and... Read more

Debriefing

By: Susan Sontag

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction, a form she turned to intermittently throughout her writing life. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Here she catches fragments of life on the fly, dramatizes her private... Read more

The Girl of the Lake

By: Bill Roorbach

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Girl of the Lake, Bill Roorbach conjures vivid, complex characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. Among the unforgettable characters Roorbach creates are an adventurous boy who learns what courage really is when an aging nobleman recounts history to him; a couple hiking through the mountains whose... Read more

Wait, Blink

By: Gunnhild Oyehaug

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Full of the playfulness that drew acclaim for her story collection Knots, Gunnhild Øyehaug's first novel to be translated into English is a jolt of desire and imagination, romance and regret: a fable about what it means to own up to the intractable weirdness of being alive.



Sigrid is a young literature student trying to find her own voice, but... Read more

Knots

By: Gunnhild Oyehaug

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Gunnhild Øyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the... Read more

Mad Country

By: Samrat Upadhyay

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Samrat Upadhyay's thrilling new collection brings stories of thieves, lovers, political prisoners, fractured families, and of Nepali-Americans attempting to navigate the strange customs of the United States. It reaffirms Upadhyay's brilliant contributions to the international literature of exile. Read more

Mexico

By: Josh Barkan

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The characters in these stories are everyday citizens—a chef, architect, nurse, high school teacher, painter, beauty queen, classical bass player, plastic surgeon, businessman, mime—simply trying to lead their lives and steer clear of violence. Yet inevitably, violence has a way of intruding on their lives. A surgeon finds himself forced into... Read more

Welcome Thieves

By: Sean Beaudoin

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Humor with a touch of the bittersweet is the hallmark of Welcome Thieves, the adult fiction debut of acclaimed young adult author Sean Beaudoin. Edgy and profane, angry, bemused, and sardonic, these stories offer the listener a gallery of unforgettable characters—misfits, losers, fighters, dreamers—all of them variations on a central theme:... Read more

Mothers, Tell Your Daughters

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award finalist and author of Once Upon a River comes a dazzling story collection featuring ferocious mothers and scrappy daughters.
 
The strong but flawed women of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters love and betray one another; their richly fraught relationships can act as anchors, lifelines, or deadly poison. Bonnie Jo... Read more

Between Here and the Yellow Sea

By: Nic Pizzolatto

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A reissue of Nic Pizzolatto's debut short story collection, now featuring two previously uncollected stories.

Set in variety of Southern landscapes, these startling stories excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. Pizzalotto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and... Read more

Come West and See

By: Maxim Loskutoff

Narrated by: Wendy Tremont King & John McLain

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Come West and See is a work both timely and timeless. Set in the Redoubt, an isolated triangle of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming where an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into a separatist uprising, these stories explore the loneliness, insecurity, and frustration inherent to love and heartbreak. A lakeside wedding drunkenly devolves... Read more

Small Change

By: Elizabeth Hay

Narrated by: Kate Greenhouse

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

These twenty superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favour with a neighbourhood girl. An intricate story of two... Read more

The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A departure from London’s normal tales of the frozen North, all of these tales take place in the islands of Hawaii. The tales deal with racial issues, family relationships, leprosy quarantines, missionaries, and the diverse people who make their homes on the beautiful Hawaiian islands.London traveled to Hawaii in the late 1800s and early 1900s,... Read more

Earth Inherited

By: Justine Avery

Narrated by: Greg Patmore

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing sets the tone for the day like learning your home planet has just changed ownership.Today is a day like any other on Earth. People wake and work. Minds plug into electronic devices. Social networks spark with spontaneous brain sputterings. A woman primps. A man scratches his balls. Humans relate, congregate, procreate.And news anchors... Read more

Scherzi del mare

By: Marco Fogliani

Narrated by: Alessia Illuminati

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Alcuni brevi racconti su temi attinenti il mare (pescatori, sirene, mostri marini, vita di spiaggia, maremoti, messaggi in bottiglia...).Di seguito l`elenco dei racconti inclusi nella raccolta:- SERENA LA SIRENA: Reinterpretazione, in chiave moderna e con lettura anche poliziesca, della classica storia della Sirenetta.- OSVALDO IL PESCATORE:... Read more