Short Stories audiobooks

I Sing the Body Electric!

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Travel on an unpredictable and unforgettable literary journey. Find a horrified mother who gives birth to a strange blue pyramid. Encounter an amazing Electrical Grandmother who comes to live with a grieving family. Meet an old parrot who learned over long evenings to imitate the voice of Ernest Hemingway, and becomes the last link to the last... Read more

Wife, Mother, Woman: A Flash Fiction Collection

By: Renee Conoulty

Narrated by: Renee Conoulty

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The daily battles of military life.Peek inside the lives of ten military-affiliated women. Whether they serve the military or support those who do, they all face relatable problems. Making new friends, finding new jobs, solo parenting. Being wives, being mothers, being women.If you like stories of strong women then you'll love Renee Conoulty's... Read more

Cast Long Shadows

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Jonathan Bailey

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Fairchild is the Consul’s son and the golden-haired boy of the Nephilim. He has the love of his family and his parabatai James Herondale, and nothing to wish for, except excitement and artistry and beauty that do not seem to fit in with a warrior’s way of life. Matthew gets more than he bargained for at the Shadow Market, where he... Read more

Son of the Dawn

By: Cassandra Clare & Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Reilly Dolman

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lightwoods, the Shadowhunters who run the New York Institute, are expecting a new addition to their family: the orphaned son of their father’s friend, Jace Wayland. Alec and Isabelle aren’t too sure they want a new brother, and their parents are not assuaging their fears, too occupied with the dark news that Raphael Santiago,... Read more

A Deeper Love

By: Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson

Narrated by: Kiersey Clemons

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It is only three years since Tessa Gray lost her beloved husband William Herondale, and she is searching for a reason to live, trying to find the path of being a warlock with the guidance of her friend Catarina Loss. World War 2 rains down destruction on their world, and Tessa and Catarina become nurses who make bargains at the Shadow Market for... Read more

Every Exquisite Thing

By: Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson

Narrated by: Lara Pulver

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna Lightwood, eldest child of Gabriel and Cecily, is mad, bad, and dangerously dapper. Every rake has an origin story, though: now under Brother Zachariah’s eye we see Anna’s doomed love story unfold. Read more

Learn About Loss

By: Cassandra Clare & Kelly Link

Narrated by: Ross Butler

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In a small town lost to despair, a dark carnival of a market appears. Faeries and warlocks we know converge, and the fate that will one day produce Kit Herondale is sealed. Read more

Patient X

By: David Peace

Narrated by: Ric Jerrom

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Occupied City, Tokyo Year Zero, and The Red Riding Quartet now gives us a stunning work of fiction in twelve connected tales that take up the strange, brief life of the brilliant twentieth-century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.

Haunting and evocative, brutal and surreal, these twelve connected tales evoke the life of... Read more

Openings in the Old Trail

By: Bret Harte

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Although American author Bret Harte is most readily associated with stories about the West, it is his skill with characterization that distinguishes him from the hundreds of others who set fictional tales in the region. The miners, soldiers, gamblers, entrepreneurs, and lost souls who populate these pages are limned with Harte’s unique... Read more

Catching Onix

By: Renee Conoulty

Narrated by: Renee Conoulty

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

 Are all strangers dangerous?Grace is a single mother whose life revolves around her eight-year-old son, Finn. All she wants is to keep him safe and happy. She indulges his latest passion for playing Pokémon Go, stepping out of her comfort zone and into the local community. To Grace's horror, Finn strikes up a conversation with Jackson, the... Read more

Out There

By: Justine Avery

Narrated by: Daniela Acitelli

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a day just like any other day... until something utterly unfamiliar suddenly lands in your back yard.Susan is the epitome of the happy housewife, contentedly conducting her daily ritual of cleaning her home and keeping everything just as it should be. Wrapped up in her own little world within those familiar walls, she hardly notices the... Read more

Last Shot

By: Justine Avery

Narrated by: Ian Gordon

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Today is the perfect day to die.Bernard is the type of man that accomplishes all that he sets out to—and easily. He's intelligent, hardworking, and completely unfamiliar with failure. His only complaint—the singular source of the inner anger bubbling within him—is that no one else in the world recognizes that.

It's time to force them to.

Bernard's... Read more

Rappaccini's Daughter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

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The Birthmark

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Aylmer has a great career as a scientist and a beautiful new wife, Georgiana. There’s only one problem—Georgiana has a small red birthmark on her cheek. Aylmer grows increasingly disgusted with the birthmark and becomes obsessed with removing the one thing barring his wife from perfection. With “The Birthmark,” Hawthorne crafted a tale of tragic... Read more

Young Goodman Brown

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Andrea Giordani

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this classic tale, the young Puritan Goodman Brown heads into the woods for a meeting with the devil. His world turns on its head, however, when he sees who else has gathered for the satanic ceremony. This one evening will forever mar how he sees his neighbors, his family, and himself. See for yourself why Hawthorne’s chilling allegory for... Read more

A Lady of Many Charms and Other Stories

By: Heidi Wessman Kneale

Narrated by: Heidi Wessman Kneale

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Three tales--one past, one present, one future--explore what it is to love and just how far someone would go for the love of another. The Past: Lady Daphne Collister is unimpressed with her fellow magic-wielding debutantes. She finds their methods overbearing. Surely there was a better way of finding a noble husband in Regency England? The... Read more

Death Is a Lonely Business

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a... Read more

The Golden Apples of the Sun

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely... Read more

Let's All Kill Constance

By: Ray Bradbury

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she... Read more

Evening in Paradise

By: Lucia Berlin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Certain American States

By: Catherine Lacey

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Thérèse Plummer & Alex Karpovsky

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists comes Certain American States, whose insightful and lonely stories beg you to discover the emotional universes hiding at their cores.The winner of a Whiting Award, Catherine Lacey brings her narrative mastery to Certain American States, her first collection of short stories. As with her... Read more

Walking Alone

By: Bentley Little

Narrated by: Traber Burns, Chris Andrew Ciulla, Peter Berkro...

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the mind of the man Stephen King calls “a master of the macabre,” comes a brilliant new collection of no-punches-pulled horror stories, some never before collected and many originals that have never been published anywhere before. Bentley Little can take the innocuous, twist it around, and write a story that will change your way of thinking.... Read more

A Simplified Map of the Real World

By: Stevan Allred

Narrated by: Stevan Allred

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen linked stories chart a true course through the lives of families, farmers, loggers, former classmates, and the occasional stripper. In the richly imagined town of Renata, Oregon, a man watches his neighbor’s big-screen TV through binoculars, an errant son paints himself silver, mysterious electrical humming emanates from an enormous... Read more

Through Blood, Through Fire

By: Cassandra Clare & Robin Wasserman

Narrated by: Candice King

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray are finally united after waiting over a century to be together, but they become aware a dark threat is looming over a child of the Shadow Market: a lost Herondale, from a line of Herondales who have used the Market to hide from their fellow Nephilim. Now is the time for the lost Herondale to be discovered. Jem and... Read more