Satire
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-20 | Author:Rachel Bertsche [Bertsche, Rachel]

On a Sunday night—or, actually, Monday morning—a few months back, I went on my first sign-up binge. I’d recently learned about MeetUp.com, a website that bills itself as the world’s ...
( Category: Journalists March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-04-17 | Author:Burroughs, Augusten [Burroughs, Augusten]

Peep Almost nothing thrilled me more as a child than to share dinner with the family down the street, the Hendersons. Mrs. Henderson was a bleached blonde who always had ...
( Category: Authors March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mavis Gallant

The husband of the woman from whom I rented my summer room played golf every weekend. On one of those August nights when no one can sleep and the sky ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Greg Gutfeld [Gutfeld, Greg]

What a performance. Ratner continued: I am grateful to GLAAD for engaging me in a dialogue about what we can do together to increase awareness of the important and troubling ...
( Category: Humor March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-02 | Author:Bob Newhart [Newhart, Bob]

Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it’s part of ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Ron White [White, Ron]

Normally my wife's a very sensuous woman. One time we were driving down the road, and she decided to give me the highway delight. Or, as I like to affectionately ...
( Category: Humor March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-09-29 | Author:Chelsea Handler [Handler, Chelsea]

Are You There, Vodka? Is's Me, Chelsea CHAPTER SEVEN Dim Sum and Then Some Sarah and I had been back from London for almost two months, in which time she ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-03 | Author:Rothbart, Davy [Rothbart, Davy]

NIBBLE, LICK, SUCK, AND FEAST In May of 2004, a New York publisher put out a book I’d put together called Found, based on the annual magazine I produce, which ...
( Category: Humor March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-13 | Author:Steve Almond [Almond, Steve]

They want to go back as far as they can even if it’s only as far as last week. Not to face now or tomorrow, but to face backwards. And ...
( Category: Rock March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Lorrie Moore [Moore, Lorrie]

Its terribleness eluded her. Her lyrics weren’t sly or hip or smoky and tough but the demure and simple hopes of a mouse. She’d spent a decade barking up the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Thomas Hill [Thomas Hill]

AUTHOR: But we returned all seventy diapers, and you only dropped off fifty. SERVICE: If your standing order is for seventy, then a hundred and forty diapers are in circulation. ...
( Category: Parodies March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Raban

Diana felt wounded. She didn’t figure in the story at all. “Someone,” said T. Jellaby, “is getting his leg over.” “So long as it’s not you,” Vic Toms said. Vic ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Terry Pratchett

When he awoke a dragon was watching him; at least, it was staring in his general direction. Rincewind groaned and tried to dig his way into the moss with his ...
( Category: Epic March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Dan Abnett

"You tricked me, Louis," I snarled painfully. "Get in a fight, did you?" "That's not funny," I said. "The man who chased me was most upset. And he was built ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-08-09 | Author:Robert Ferrigno

21 “Oh, hello . . . Frank.” Gina Meachum stood in her doorway, a hammer in her hand. A painting leaned against the sofa behind her. Her long dark hair ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )