Humor & Satire
epub |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Terry Pratchett [Pratchett, Terry]

Lord Vetinari gave Ponder a faint smile as they left the cabin. In the sudden silence Ponder... pondered. He stared at the orrery, walked around it, enlarged sections of it, ...
( Category: Sword & Sorcery August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-07-02 | Author:Liz Moore

“Welcome,” says Abraham, receiving the bottles of wine delightedly. “Pacifica will be down in a moment.” The Plasseys and the Harcourts and the Blandes and Georgina Thompson, widowed five years ...
( Category: Satire August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Vivian French

Lottie stood up straight. ‘It would be very kind, and a good deed. And, if ever I can do anything for you, I certainly will.’ ‘You? But you’re only a ...
( Category: Humorous August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-22 | Author:Jennifer Ryan [Ryan, Jennifer]

I sprinted up the narrow path and plunged into the wood. I hadn’t been in Peasepotter Wood for years, and yet I still remembered all the tracks, the path to ...
( Category: Military August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Ed Nelson [Nelson, Ed]

Chapter 18 I was surprised in the morning when I found the General not only up but ready to join me on my daily run. He kept pace with me ...
( Category: Humorous August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-06 | Author:Halle Butler

* * * • • • The ninety milligrams of Tylenol T3 with codeine wore off before the day was over. Jillian left the bottle at home because the bottle ...
( Category: Dark Humor August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-12 | Author:Martin Michael Driessen [Driessen, Martin Michael]

Josip’s recent visit to Zagreb had not gone as he had hoped. Jana was out of sorts. Her bed was not decked, as usual, in red satin linens; in fact, ...
( Category: Satire August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-01 | Author:E M Foner [Foner, E M]

Twelve “I can’t stay for the whole meeting because I have to get to theatre practice,” Harry informed the other board members as he took his seat. “And I’m sorry ...
( Category: Satire August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-06 | Author:Brunvand, Jan Harold [Brunvand, Jan Harold]

From Helen Creighton’s 1957 book Bluenose Ghosts, pp. 185–87. This text shares the “portrait identification” motif with many versions of “The Vanishing Hitchhiker.” A variation of the “Ghost in Search ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-22 | Author:Scott Spencer

Chapter 23 Grace Ascendant A few weeks after her great success, Grace called me in my office late on a Thursday afternoon to ask if she could spend the night ...
( Category: Family Life August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Bryndza

* * * We stayed for a couple of hours, then Benji returned and it was all a bit frosty so I said we’d head back home. “Will I see ...
( Category: Humorous August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-03 | Author:Judy Gold

Most occupants of the White House have taken it in stride, accepting that it’s just one unfortunate part of their job. Political comedy is especially important in the Trump era ...
( Category: Comedy August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-17 | Author:Dick Wybrow [Wybrow, Dick]

Chapter Twenty-Two "What are they saying?" The Actor stood to peek over the nose of their go-fast boat then ducked back down. The voice crackling over the radio and the ...
( Category: Supernatural August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-04 | Author:Matt Burns [Burns, Matt]

On Christmas morning, my parents gave us all a new computer for the family room and told me I could keep our old one in my room. I’d kind of ...
( Category: Satire August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-10 | Author:Britney King [King, Britney]

Eve doesn’t kill me. Not in the physical sense. She aims the gun at my chest, dead center, but forgets to chamber a round. It takes a bit of a ...
( Category: Murder August 5,2020 )