Humorous category: 20629 books

A humorous short story about a woman and a computer. Can the two co-habitate in peace? Technology may be on the verge of having sophisticated home computers that run an entire household, but have the scientists taken into consideration the human factor? When SAHM, a Sensor Activated Home Manager, is...

Will Clayton - estranged from his family and former friends – sits alone atop a rest stop picnic table on a rural highway in central Kansas. A half-eaten candy bar, a bottle of water, and the hot Kansas sun keep him company. At fifty-five years of age, the burnt out and disillusioned modern day...

IT'S LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR! The long awaited Volume Two of the popular '101 Politically Incorrect LIMERICKS' series is raunchier, more daring and much funnier than Volume One! This collection of totally new and fresh humorous prose is guaranteed to have you laughing out loud! A MUST FOR ALL SERIOUS COLLECTORS OF LIMERICKS!

“The Vampire's Second Story. Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women” is a tale, included in “Vikram and The Vampire” - a group of tales, translated and adapted by Sir Richard Burton. The story turns chiefly on a great king named Vikram, the King Arthur of the East, who in pursuance of his...

This is an intense, humorous short story. What happens when one guy is so taken with the scenery that he decides when he dies he wants to become part of it? And what happen if he gets so depressed he decides he'd like to become part of it now? Can a lack of Mexican food really cause depression?

A humorous story about a manipulative mother's attempts to arrange a marriage between her beautiful daughter and a wealthy elderly nobleman. The story provides an brilliant insight into the desperation, psychology, gossip, and rivalry of provincial merchants trying to better their position in life.

John Parker was born an Ayrshire farmers boy on the 1st of January 1964 in the West of Scotland. After travelling the world, mainly by himself, he now prefers to divide his time between his home in Scotland and his house on La Isla de la Juventud, Cuba. Parkers interests are writing comedy, travelling...

Is happily ever after just once upon a time? Thirty-something divorcee Julie has everything going for her. An exciting career. Friends who adore her. Everything but the thing she desires most: everlasting, romantic love. After eating cake in bed--alone--on what would have been her one-year...

Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) — a British writer who began his literary career working as a journalist. Eventually he used this experience to write short-stories, which often satirised the life during the Edwardian Era. He also wrote a romantic comedy play 'The Watched Pot'...

Includes a new (2012) foreword and two additional stories in a collection described thus by The New York Times Book Review, Sunday, November 20, 1988: “This frequently powerful collection of short stories enters Latin America as if through the rickety back door of a burlesque house: "Goo'mornin',...

This is a fictional parody, ‘Just Call Me Bob’ is about President Barack H. Obama, aka, ‘BOB’. At times, reality rears its head and forces the President to act rationally as the fate of the nation is in his hands. This story is about his new home, his cabinet choices and how he faces major...

Herman J. Elkmoss was a fictitious physician in Swampville, Moss State, who died in a freakishly dreadful accident. His wife, while going through his effects, found numerous essays he had written. These stories cover many aspects of Hermans career and take the reader through the experience of medical...

A collection of humorous and thought-provoking outdoor tales that tell the unvarnished truth of the outdoors- the sun doesn't always shine, the fish don't always cooperate and the campsites are usually filled with drunken outlaw biker gangs. Regardless, the outdoors is still a magical place filled with awe, reverence, insight and even fun.

A True Pessimist is a humorous short story by Alan Chains, writer of Return to Island X.