Humorous fiction Books

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...

"DYMANISM" is a funny, sometimes poignant and often offensive, no-caps, stream-of-consciousness spiel by a 'nearly-dead' man typing at a keyboard with no comma key. He offers up his free-floating theories about chicks, love, work, antique-aliens,...

THIS IS A STORY ABOUT MARY.Mary was a fan of the vampire drama "City By Night", until she woke up in the show. At first, Mary is thrilled - who wouldn't want to live alongside their favorite TV characters? The charm fades when Mary realizes that the...

Against Nature (A rebours) centers on a single character: Jean des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive, ailing aesthete. The last scion of an aristocratic family, Des Esseintes loathes nineteenth century bourgeois society and tries to...

Lane Webster's inner dialogue, (ID), narrates this story. The narrator is at his cynical best, taking the reader on adventures of the characters involved. A tale of good versus evil... A story of magic. Seven humans unknowingly share something that...

Avid Ghost Hunter and wannabe Miss Marple, Beth Evans-Silverton and her best friend Monty Peebles, find themselves literally right under the scene of a crime.Along with Beth's husband, Jordan, and Monty's motorbike-loving 88-year-old Auntie Mildred, they...

Nothing illustrates friendship better than understanding what's between the lines or the unspoken word.In a world of randy vicars, cheating husbands, a demented dad, a son who collects dummies, and a vegetarian who eats meat, southern Jane and northern...

What would you do if your life turned upside down in a New York minute?Pink-slipped at 9 a.m. and hit by a drunk driver by midnight, 24-year-old aspiring actress, Eve Foster, moves to Manhattan where Pavlos (her 38-year-old boyfriend), lives. Just one...

Ellis Worth wrote this selection of stories between 1955 and 1972. Accordingly, they refer to people, events, and objects in the vernacular of that era: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev, costly operator-assisted...

A comedy murder mystery with a plot like nothing you've ever seen before. If it doesn't make you laugh, you need to take your pulse. Dr. Jason Longfellow, PI and amateur sleuth is at it again, driving his poor wife Chelsea crazy while trying to solve...

They're trying to kill Bruce Benson. If he wants to survive, he'll have to save Vain Capital from itself. Portraying a world of political correctness run amok, Investing in Vain is a modern satire that distills the follies of our time with memorable...

Indulge your craving for flavor-filled short stories with Death & Peaches, a tantalizing fusion of thrills, chills and hand-picked, selective surprises. Painstakingly crafted over many years with the precision of a master chef, each story...

Family is everything. Unless they kill you Franklin and Wendy Becker's motorhome trip across the country skids off course when they discover Charlie Gosling's body in a campground. Charlie's dysfunctional family offers no shortage of suspects: the...

LAUGH-OUT-LOUD FUNNY, CRUDE, AND ALWAYS UNPREDICATABLE - MIKE BARON DELIVERS BOOK THREE IN THE FLORIDA MAN SERIES.As Gary and Krystal drag Prince Larry and Princess Regan, through the mud, a snapping turtle latches on to the prince's manhood and a debate...

THE FEW. THE PROUD.THE STUPID. THE INEPT.It was the perfect solution, put highly connectedCaptain Willard Phule in charge of the worstdregs of the Space Force. Sure, Phule’s Companymay be a band of rejects and misfi ts, but they didmanage to save...

"A winning story... part science fiction, part spoof, part heart-warmer."-Publishers WeeklyCaptain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape, turning Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into...a crack team of casino security guards...

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Bunker Bean leads a dull, gray life, his only bit of color provided by a red silk cravat buried at the bottom of his bottom drawer. But all of that changes after he consults the Countess Cassanova and she tells him of his past lives. Armed with the...

Tom Hazuka has co-edited the short story anthologies Flash Fiction, Sudden Flash Youth, You Have Time for This and A Celestial Omnibus, and published the novels The Road to the Island, In the City of the Disappeared, and Last Chance for First. He teaches...

You ask, what’s wrong with the monkey bars? Well, when they’re the only option, and the line is longer than the girl’s room, you tell me. Our playground is terrible! But what can we do to help? Three friends work together to build...

Biffy Ferguson is a large, eight year old Tabby Cat with an odd orange tip on the end of his tale that he is rather proud of. Biffy thought of himself as a sophisticated, yet down to earth cat- about-town. Biffy's best friends were Mr Marple, the large...

Romance and high comedy in the heat of the summer.

Almost every female, in Jerry's life, represents pain and failure while almost all the males are mischievous and deceitful. With those types of influences, there's no wonder his life is a wreck. In fact, his own actions repulse him so much; he is forced...

Bob Henley is a self-proclaimed complainer. By day, the married father of two is a Human Resources professional. At night, he is Commuter Bob, a popular blogger who is famous for shining a pessimistic light on the pains of commuting from New Jersey to...

Set in late-1950's Los Angeles, the Easter Bunny Conspiracy is a grippingly funny coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of a precocious 12 ½ year-old Catholic boy, Chris Kelly. Chris is struggling to find himself despite the burdens of his being...

What happens in the past doesn't always stay in the past . . .

Moving between the past and the present, The Girl Who Just Appeared is a tender and touching story.

This is Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1920 lyrical drama in four acts, 'Prometheus Unbound'. It concerns the torture of Prometheus, the Greek mythological figure who defies the gods by giving fire to humanity. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) was a...

Every personal exchange is a transaction, only neither side really understands what the other intended. 'Deals'; business; love; casual sex; what do you think you're getting? Humorous and insightful...

A secret human milk factory enables one woman to find a cure for bird flu through cutting-edge research. Tighten all bra-straps, though: it's going to be a bumpy ride.

When the aged missing horror legend Lenyard Brock is kidnapped, the kidnappers find themselves submerged in the otherworld of painted dusks, wretched devilry and comely maidens.

The Visit to the Cells is a humorous tale written by Ernst Eckstein and published in 1876. The book tells the story of a man who visits a prison to see his friend who has been incarcerated. However, upon arriving, he finds himself mistaken for a prisoner...

A locked door, a dead body. A millionaire industrialist dies under suspicious circumstances by an overdose of a prescription medication. But there is one peculiar circumstance. The victim had contacted his attorney to change his will only days before his...