Humorous fiction Books

A comedic, bizarre, strange, horrific piece of fiction, displaying an abundant selection of diverse human emotions. A hard piece of work to classify. Not for everyone and not for the faint of heart.

A simpler, more peaceful time in a rural community?-not in this family. Grandma Lottie is visiting her son's family for the holidays. This is a family in crisis, facing painful issues and quickly splitting apart. The holidays may not be thankful or merry...

What do we, as a society, do with our aged and ailing? A fortunate few spend their last years in small, caring rest homes like Placida House, where each resident is lovingly treated like a member of the family. Baby Dog Benji rules the roost, lavishing...

Porkville, Ohio is a small town with similarities to many communities across America. However, if you are able to put faces with each of these characters, you should seriously consider moving away.

If you were as rich as Bill Gates and you started a Gay and Lesbian university, what would you teach? Business? Sure. Computers, electronic engineering? Absolutely. A core liberal arts curriculum? You d have to, or all your graduates would be nerds...

Accepting the reality of life in the rubber room is never to become second nature for Richard Ulysses Lion. While his true nature is that of being overly cocky, mischevious, and fun loving at heart. He weaves a wildly variable tale through his personal...

Ever wanted to own a bulldog? Forget it, for she will end up owning you! This black comedy farce involves a hardhearted bachelor London cabby still struggling to emerge from his midlife crisis. Alfie Horsefly meets Mildred Marsh

Doublecrossed? Yes. Triplecrossed? Yes. Who will be left holding the bag? A smuggling ring falls apart as each character tries to outwit the other. Smuggling seemed so easy until it all fell apart.

Valley of the Geeks skewers Silicon Valley with high-tech hijinks that keep you laughing out loud. This new collection of essays includes the best original humor from the award-winning web site valleyofthegeeks.com. Urlocker s unique blend of wit and...

Vampires have secretly grown wealthy behind the scenes for centuries, involved in monumental tasks such as overthrowing governments, and mundane ones like running local strip clubs. But instead of viewing things from afar, they like to plunging headfirst...

This is a collection of short stories written over the last ten years. There are no essays extolling fly fishing as a healer of mind and body. Neither will you find dry how to/where to details and you won't find a secret fly pattern guaranteed to catch...

Stanley and Roscoe rejoin Jasper and Boddie to rescue Beau Vue, Arkansas, while scamming mid-level corporate crooks and going into the prison business. JB_E, Esq., and Moanika leave the Caribbean to configure a Capitol con. Rhodenta visits downstate...

Lake Yew Summer Arts Festival is in for a bumpy ride when L.A. director Jackson Stockade descends on tiny Hester College in rural North Carolina to direct the summer Shakespeare play.

Al DeGregorio s philosophy of life was very simple - ..it Happens! This is never more evident than when B.A.D. and his boys struggle to escape from the jewel thieves: "You little bastards have made a big mistake, because I'm going to fix your asses for...

Eagles and Canaries is a collection of funny and insightful stories about men who yearn unsuccessfully for women. The problem is these men are under the illusion that all women fall into one of two categories, those who are out for a wild time at the...

Everyone agrees that the best way to murder Aunt Flossie is to put rat poison in her butterbeans, but there is one little problem. She never leaves the butterbeans long enough for someone to poison them without her seeing.You will love to hate Aunt...

Ruth Messier had been sitting in a special care hospital strapped to a chair for twenty-five years. She couldn t see or hear. She couldn t smell or taste or feel. She had no arms and no legs. Ruth Messier was a bowling ball.

Mary is a wealthy woman in her late forties living with Max, a younger man in his twenties and very immature. They live in a very small town in Texas. She eventually meets and falls in love with a very wealthy older man and together they buy a small...

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Christmas in Chicago back in the forties and fifties was different. The weather was different, the people jarred from their usual concerns, and the things that happened strange, delightful, and often wacky.

A diverse melange of micro-fictions, from 4.80 to 950 wordseach. Lives in miniature. Bonsai novels . A man wins his dream vacation to Omaha, a woman dies, a child drives a maniac bus, a student pushes the limits of algebra, old women play checkers, it...

A laugh-out-loud, unforgettable story about the things people do to be seen and the courage it takes to follow one's heart, wherever it leads.When thirty-four-year-old Harvard law graduate, Kate Becker, lands her dream job at an all-woman firm in Austin,...

'In life...you can choose to become a specialist or a generalist. But inlove, please don't become a reluctant fundamentalist. Instead becomea love scientist.'- Raghu BalakrishnanRaghu Balakrishnan is a laidback 25 year old, who quits his regular jobas a...

Ännu en bok som på allvar kritiserar den dåliga arbetsmiljön för lärare. I bok nummer två fortsätter kampen för en bättre arbetsmiljö. Texterna är med ironi drivna till sin spets och kan ses som både roliga och underhållande. Dock finna det alltid en...

Die 82 Jahre junge Tante Helga ist weder auf den Mund, noch auf den Kopf gefallen und hinter Föhnfrisur, Perlenkette und Sonnenbrille ist noch so manche kreative Idee versteckt, um böse Buben zu überführen und nebenbei die Mitbewohner wieder in Schwung...

Nur weil er bei einer Hochzeitsfeier der Braut eines anderen nicht widerstehen konnte, wird der oberbayrische Hotelkoch Rolf Prinzler von seiner Ehefrau, der Eigentümerin des Hotels, fristlos entlassen und aus der ehelichen Wohnung gewiesen.Vom Anwalt...

Als der bekannte Restaurantkritiker Edward Bonn auf der Suche nach einem neuen Restaurant in der peruanischen Einöde verschwindet, kommt im fernen Los Angeles eine Reihe von Ereignissen in Gang, die ganz Hollywood auf den Kopf stellen. Zwei exzentrische...

 1996, Southern California: A peaceful, scenic day in the coastal community of Santa Monica, except that there is a Meter Maid laying next to the sidewalk - dead. Fresh from a messy divorce case, North Hollywood Private Investigator, Clive Wilts is...

Are you learning Spanish?Did you know that learning Spanish using stories is one of the most powerful methods for language immersion?In this book you get to follow along with the first short story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the world's most...

Take cruiseSee weirdosFight evilAlmost a year ago, Richard and Stanley escaped a nest of supernatural creatures posing as nurses at their retirement home. Together with Richard's granddaughter Burke, they've crisscrossed the country on a mission to...

"This is a great chick-lilt story that really connects with the mind and heart!" —InD'tale Magazine I thought not winning Made for Me was tough but arriving home to find a one-word note that my ten-year marriage is over is a lot...

Christine's list of resolutions contains many clichés. Try something new. Buy a pair of heels. Get a promotion. Fall in love. Seems simple, especially when Christine meets Patrick, the man who could be Mr. Right. He's got the right...

The war was bad. The cleanup is worse.  Sure, the dragon is dead and the Sorcerer is defeated. But with all the silly left-over magic running around the kingdom of Baltica, things are 'worser-than-worse'.Who's going to clean it all...

Finalist 2022 Nancy Pearl Book AwardLark's life at fifty is a tour bus with failing brakes. Failed marriage, failed social work career, failed romance with a renaissance faire knight. If fifty is the new forty, her future doesn't bode well. A job comes...

A bad penny always turns up, so the saying goes.A Bad Penny is the third book in a series by Pat McDonald. In her first book, A Penny for Them, Benjamin Matthews (né Pollock), discovers after several startling revelations that he isn't who he thought he...

Seventeen short stories are featured in Thomas Wm. Hamilton’s latest book Weird Thoughts. Spanning the years 1912 to fifty million years in the future, the book’s genres cover science fiction, fantasy, and satire.The stories are followed by...

Have you ever come across a crow that impressed you? I have. Do you ever find yourself increasingly frustrated at the kitchen sink for not swallowing bits of food and doing its job properly? I do. Have you ever found yourself feeling totally empty at a...

Felonies, infidelity, and fine art collide on the shadowy side of a quaint American town in this unconventional debut novel. Transplanted from London, England, Marc Clemens joins his colorful colleagues to navigate a slew of...

“Once the evening’s entertainment was over the Minotaur, as naked as Nature intended, clumped into Pablo Zapata’s bar…”A baby with a passion for theoretical physics…A winged nymph who exacts terrible revenge…A...

Synopsis:Montgomery Sanderson has never been one of life's go-getters. He drifts through a life in London, working at an advertising agency that specialises in bears, reviewing dismal guitar bands for beer money, and wondering if he'll ever master the...

In the summer of 1968 Max Quester is appointed drama counsellor at an American summer camp. But instead of the civilised play readings he has envisaged, sipping wine on the terrace with the brighter students, he finds himself in the regimented world of...

'We all need to know what's missing in our lives. At a funeral someone stands and describes everything a person has accomplished in their life. But what if they missed something? What if there was one thing they never got to do? And what if they...