Short Stories (single Author)

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Evermore, Sean Williams

Evermore

by Sean Williams

Rent: $3.97

"We must all hang together," Benjamin Franklin is reported to have said to his revolution...

Unabridged: 1 hr 7 min
Narrator: Kerin McCue
Published: 11/14/2000
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The Wig A Short Story from For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander

The Wig

by Nathan Englander

Rent: $2.18

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of start...

Unabridged: 56 min
Narrator: Susan Denaker
Published: 03/20/2007
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Men and Cartoons, Jonathan Lethem

Men and Cartoons

by Jonathan Lethem

Rent: $6.08

Jonathan Lethem's new collection of stories is a feast for his fans and the perfect intro...

Unabridged: 3 hr 48 min
Narrator: Jonathan Lethem
Published: 11/02/2004
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Powder, Tobias Wolff

Powder

by Tobias Wolff

Rent: $1.48

With his marriage on the rocks, a father takes his son skiing for the weekend. After insi...

Unabridged: 9 min
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Published: 12/15/2013
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Sanity, Tobias Wolff

Sanity

by Tobias Wolff

Rent: $1.98

Aprils father, a psychology professor, has had a breakdown and has landed in the Alta Vis...

Unabridged: 24 min
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Published: 12/15/2013
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Mortals, Tobias Wolff

Mortals

by Tobias Wolff

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Mr. Givens obituary is nothing remarkable, hardly something to remember at all. He led a ...

Unabridged: 18 min
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Published: 12/15/2013
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The Liar, Tobias Wolff

The Liar

by Tobias Wolff

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One of Tobias Wolffs classic tales, "The Liar" is the story of a deceitful teenage boy an...

Unabridged: 37 min
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Published: 12/15/2013
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Hunters in the Snow, Tobias Wolff

Hunters in the Snow

by Tobias Wolff

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An unnerving tale of self-absorption and deception by short-story master Tobias Wolff Th...

Unabridged: 30 min
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Published: 12/15/2013
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Ca...

by Mark Twain

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Though known for his classic novels of adventure and coming of age, Mark Twain is equally...

Unabridged: 15 min
Going Public in Shorts
Narrator: Kaleo Griffith
Published: 12/17/2013
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The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Ice Palace

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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One of F. Scott Fitzgeralds earliest short stories, The Ice Palace is about Sally Carrol ...

Unabridged: 54 min
Going Public in Shorts
Narrator: Vanessa Hart
Published: 12/07/2013
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The Death of a Soldier, Louisa May Alcott

The Death of a Soldier

by Louisa May Alcott

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Before Louisa May Alcott achieved national fame with Little Women, she received success a...

Unabridged: 21 min
Going Public in Shorts
Narrator: Karen White
Published: 12/02/2013
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow Wallpaper and Why I Wr...

by Charlotte Perkins Gilma...

Rent: $3.46

A prominent sociologist, lecturer, and writer of the late nineteenth century, Charlotte P...

Unabridged: 38 min
Going Public in Shorts
Narrator: Xe Sands
Published: 12/25/2013
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The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry

The Gift of the Magi

by O. Henry

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O. Henry was a prolific American short-story writera master of surprise endingswho wrote ...

Unabridged: 14 min
Going Public in Shorts
Narrator: Coleen Marlo
Published: 12/18/2013
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Nightingale, Tobias Wolff

Nightingale

by Tobias Wolff

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Dr. Booth drives his son, Owen, to Fort Steele Academy, where he hopes his son will thriv...

Unabridged: 21 min
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Published: 12/15/2013
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A White Bible, Tobias Wolff

A White Bible

by Tobias Wolff

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Maureen is an English teacher, and she's had a long day. All she wants is a relaxing nigh...

Unabridged: 29 min
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Published: 12/15/2013
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Smorgasbord, Tobias Wolff

Smorgasbord

by Tobias Wolff

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García, the wealthy, swaggering son of a foreign dictator, invites two lower-class...

Unabridged: 32 min
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Published: 12/15/2013
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Brown Wolf, and Other Short Stories, Jack London

Brown Wolf, and Other Short Stori...

by Jack London

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Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes, Londons true genius lay in the short ...

Unabridged: 2 hr 21 min
Narrator: various narrators
Published: 02/20/2014
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Upon Arrival, Cassandra R. Fowlie

Upon Arrival

by Cassandra R. Fowlie

Rent: $1.73

Celeste and Marla are the type of friends who know each others' thoughts without having t...

Unabridged: 13 min
Narrator: Karen White
Published: 11/01/2013
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Wife-Wooing, John Updike

Wife-Wooing

by John Updike

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The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 12 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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Giving Blood, John Updike

Giving Blood

by John Updike

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The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 27 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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The Taste of Metal, John Updike

The Taste of Metal

by John Updike

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The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 13 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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Your Lover Just Called, John Updike

Your Lover Just Called

by John Updike

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The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 18 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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Nakedness, John Updike

Nakedness

by John Updike

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The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 17 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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Gesturing, John Updike

Gesturing

by John Updike

Rent: $2.49

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 28 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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Divorcing: A Fragment, John Updike

Divorcing: A Fragment

by John Updike

Rent: $1.48

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 6 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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Here Come the Maples, John Updike

Here Come the Maples

by John Updike

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The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 28 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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Grandparenting, John Updike

Grandparenting

by John Updike

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The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career,...

Unabridged: 35 min
Narrator: Peter Van Norden
Published: 07/01/2014
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The Spinoza of Market Street, Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Spinoza of Market Street

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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"The Spinoza of Market Street" is yet another masterful short story from literary great I...

Unabridged: 44 min
Narrator: Theodore Bikel
Published: 09/01/2014
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Esther Kreindel the Second, Isaac Bashevis Singer

Esther Kreindel the Second

by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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This short story from the collection Gimpel the Fool, and Other Stories is infused with t...

Unabridged: 42 min
Narrator: Theodore Bikel
Published: 09/01/2014
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Lucky Alan And Other Stories, Jonathan Lethem

Lucky Alan

by Jonathan Lethem

Rent: $6.99

The incomparable Jonathan Lethem returns with nine brilliant stories that prove he is a m...

Unabridged: 4 hr 19 min
Narrator: Various
Published: 02/24/2015
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The Village, James Lee Burke

The Village

by James Lee Burke

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A short story from one of the country's most-acclaimed and popular novelists James Lee Bu...

Abridged: 6 min
Narrator: Ron McLarty
Published: 07/10/2007
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Bayou Stories, Kate Chopin

Bayou Stories

by Kate Chopin

Rent: $7.49

This collection of nine short stories takes the listener back to nineteenth-century Louis...

Unabridged: 2 hr 8 min
Narrator: Jacqueline Kinlow
Published: 01/01/2000
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Best of O. Henry, O. Henry

Best of O. Henry

by O. Henry

Rent: $7.49

The best of O. Henry's stories: 'The Gift of the Magi,' 'The Voice of the City,' 'The Ran...

Unabridged: 2 hr 7 min
Narrator: Michael Hanson
Published: 01/01/2001
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Edith Wharton: Stories The Eyes; The Daunt Diana; The Moving Finger; and The Debt, Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton: Stories

by Edith Wharton

Rent: $7.49

Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Edith Wharton was most well known for her novels...

Unabridged: 2 hr 16 min
Narrator: Ralph Cosham
Published: 01/01/2002
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Grace, Grits and Ghosts: Southern Short Stories, Susan Gabriel

Grace, Grits and Ghosts: Southern...

by Susan Gabriel

Rent: $2.99

This delightful collection of short stories from bestselling author Susan Gabriel (The Se...

Unabridged: 2 hr 35 min
Narrator: Holly Adams
Published: 03/16/2015
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Murder on the Ghan Female Narration, Martin Lundqvist

Murder on the Ghan

by Martin Lundqvist

Rent: $1.04

A flash fiction story about a woman committing the perfect murder to avenge her family an...

Unabridged: 6 min
Narrator: Elaine Hidayat
Published: 07/10/2019
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Terminus: A The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher Essay, Hilary Mantel

Terminus: A "The Assassination of...

by Hilary Mantel

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Terminus: A "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher" Essay by Hilary MantelThe Assassinat...

Unabridged: 11 min
Narrator: Jane Carr
Published: 12/08/2015
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The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick

The Shawl

by Cynthia Ozick

Rent: $7.62

Two award-winning works of fiction by one of America's finest writers, together in one co...

Unabridged: 2 hr 3 min
Narrator: Yelena Shmulenson
Published: 11/12/2008
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The World of Saki, H.H. Munro

The World of Saki

by H.H. Munro

Rent: $6.49

The finest champagne, dry and light, ever decanted into a book, are these 16 short storie...

Unabridged: 2 hr 57 min
Narrator: Alexander Spencer
Published: 03/10/2008
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Proto Zoa Five Early Short Stories, Lois McMaster Bujold

Proto Zoa

by Lois McMaster Bujold

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A delightful collection of Lois McMaster Bujolds early stories and a comprehensive introd...

Unabridged: 3 hr 37 min
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Published: 02/01/2016
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Where the Evidence Lies, Jeffery Deaver

Where the Evidence Lies

by Jeffery Deaver

Rent: $3.06

From the New York Times best-selling author of the Lincoln Rhyme series, a short story a...

Unabridged: 57 min
A Mulholland - Strand Magazine Short
Narrator: Allan Robertson
Published: 04/19/2016
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Ninety-Nine Stories of God, Joy Williams

Ninety-Nine Stories of God

by Joy Williams

Rent: $5.96

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for...

Unabridged: 1 hr 56 min
Narrator: Elisabeth Rodgers
Published: 07/12/2016
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Gun Boss of Tumbleweed, L. Ron Hubbard

Gun Boss of Tumbleweed

by L. Ron Hubbard

Rent: $8.11

Mart Kincaid, a tall, ruggedly good-looking young man in the Clint Eastwood mold, may be ...

Unabridged: 2 hr 13 min
Stories from the Golden Age
Narrator: R. F. Daley
Published: 06/24/2013
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East, West Stories, Salman Rushdie

East, West

by Salman Rushdie

Rent: $7.49

A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star; Indian diplomats, who as childhood...

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min
Narrator: Sunil Malhotra
Published: 07/29/2016
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Guru Bones, Carolyn Haines

Guru Bones

by Carolyn Haines

Rent: $5.49

Zinnia, Mississippi, rolls out the red carpet for controversial food activist Priya Karsa...

Unabridged: 1 hr 57 min
Sarah Booth Delaney Mysteries
Narrator: Kate Forbes
Published: 09/25/2015
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Cowboy's Reckoning A Cahill Ranch Novella, B.J. Daniels

Cowboy's Reckoning

by B.J. Daniels

Rent: $5.49

Secrets and seduction thrive in Montana in this thrilling new novella from New York Times...

Unabridged: 1 hr 31 min
Cahill Ranch
Narrator: Graham Winton
Published: 11/28/2017
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Jagannath, Karin Tidbeck

Jagannath

by Karin Tidbeck

Rent: $7.49

A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpule...

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min
Narrator: Kirsten Potter
Published: 02/06/2018
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories, Kate Chopin

The Awakening, and Selected Short...

by Kate Chopin

Rent: $7.99

Edna Pontellier has everything that a woman and mother should want – two wonderful ...

Unabridged: 6 hr 14 min
Narrator: Harriet Seed
Published: 10/27/2020
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Selected Stories The Alligators, A & P, Pigeon Feathers, The Family Meadow, Witnesses, Separating, John Updike

Selected Stories

by John Updike

Rent: $6.39

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published."...

Unabridged: 2 hr 49 min
Narrator: John Updike
Published: 05/12/2009
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Jared Pond and the Swedish Fish Factory, Martin Lundqvist

Jared Pond and the Swedish Fish F...

by Martin Lundqvist

Rent: $1.09

Pond,Jared Pond.The greatest agent Australia has ever seen according to himself, travels ...

Unabridged: 17 min
100 Short stories #26
Narrator: Martin Lundqvist
Published: 04/05/2021