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Recollecting school escapades, ridding a house of lust, a practical joke misfiring, dealing with a boy's swearing, a talking dog, a woman's take on the Odysseus legend, dogged self-centredness, a suspect solution to the world's problems, bizarre seductions, an afterlife wish granted, a jinxed lover pursuing his beloved… These are some of the themes of the seventeen humorous short stories in Pursuit involving a variety of comic expressions: situational,...
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The first of the two stories is a rhyme. Old WomanDesigner Shoe Issues Mother Duck could not have concocted a rhyme so clever as this. It might not be golden, but it sure should be a bronze level winner in a world of flesh and death peddler. A woman with so much stuff, she's reached the Crème de la crème status in all thing's material. That's even better than a gold star. Best part was she didn't even work for it. Here's her story. Story number...
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A fey king. An evil horde. A new darkness. And, a man with exploding hands.
"Fans of George Takei and Terry Pratchett will love this book and join me waiting impatiently for the next one. Go ahead, read it!"
"Couldn't turn a page without a chuckle, a chortle or a good old fashioned guffaw!"
"Funny, reminiscent of Robert Asprin, Douglas Adams, the best of Robert Heinlein"
"This is an adventure story with bits of madness, magic, a budding bit of romance,...
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A reluctant mage, a deluded dragon and a very scary fairie.
Bill Strike is abducted on the eve of his wedding by an elf and her band of carrier lizards and finds himself transported to the Beyond where it seems all is not well. The elfs blame him for an invasion of walking wooden robots and he's faced with a stark choice - destroy the machines or never see his world, and his fiance, again.
In the meantime, Chortley Fitzmichael's father is murdered...
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Tunnels, trolls and disembodied souls.
Bill Strike, fire mage, has a problem. The magical staff he used to destroy the malicious Faerie King has been stolen by the king's servant and, to make matters worse, the dark soul of the king is now trapped within the staff.
With his companion Brianna and a goblin called Rasha, he sets off to the imperial capital to consult the library. With explosive consequences.
Can he prevent the king's soul being united...
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**2022 NYC BIG BOOK AWARD WINNER/COMEDY**
**2022 HOLLYWOOD BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER**
**2022 FINALIST, AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS, HUMOR/COMEDY/SATIRE**
Search for the People of the Temporary Tattoo. Examine the tortured mind of the Mad Stock Boy. Thrill to the exploits of the Hugging Detective. Cower in fear of the Grateful Man. These adventures and more await you in Giant Banana Over Texas: Darkly Humorous Tales, a collection of thirty-one...
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Chicken Foots Stew is centered around the life and times of quadrupled-divorced Michael Devin Hughes. The stories are Hughes' observations on family, life, and love, though not necessarily in that order. Fast-paced and genuinely funny, Chicken Foots Stew provides entertaining family reading. Among the short stories included in Chicken Foots Stew are the following: "Birthday Parties" as Hughes and his son Malcolm attend the ultimate children's birthday...
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A fey king. An evil horde. A new darkness. And a man with exploding hands.
"Fans of George Takei and Terry Pratchett will love this book. Go ahead, read it!"
"Couldn't turn a page without a chuckle, a chortle or a good old fashioned guffaw!"
"Funny, reminiscent of Robert Asprin, Douglas Adams, the best of Robert Heinlein"
"This is an adventure story with bits of madness, magic, a budding bit of romance, and an air force wing of fighting chickens."
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"Moby-Dick Reversed: A Whale's Humorous Account" is an inventive and humorous retelling of Herman Melville's classic "Moby-Dick." This novella, the second in the "Laughter Lines" series, offers a fresh and comedic perspective by narrating the tale from the whale's point of view.Our protagonist, a witty and articulate whale, takes readers through a rollicking journey beneath the waves, offering hilarious insights into human behavior, maritime adventures,...
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Excerpt: "There is an intermediate ground between our knowledge of life and the unknown which is readily conceived as covered by the term mysticism. Mystery stories of high rank often fall under this general classification. They are neither of earth, heaven nor Hades, but may partake of either. In the hands of a master they present at times a rare, if even upon occasion, unduly thrilling – aesthetic charm. The examples which it has been possible...
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This book is about a slightly fictionalized account of chronologically selected slices from my lengthy career as a dental specialist. Embellishments of strange happenings were unnecessary because human foibles ran rampant. However, most names and places have been altered so as not to embarrass the guilty, berserk, bizarre, and downright scurvy. The tales are what they are without color enhancement or pretrial publicity. The stories are retold in a...
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They are old, cranky, and dangerous. Midlife witch Missy Mindle is also a home-health nurse for vampires. You see, not all vampires are young, sexy urbanites. What happens if you were a senior citizen when you're turned? You move to Florida, of course, to an oceanfront condo tower in Jellyfish Beach. There's even a bloodmobile that shows up each night like a food truck. But a disturbed ex-con hijacks the bloodmobile, leaving a community of vampires...
13) Humorous Jokes
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Laughter is as essential for us as breathing is. The life becomes a big boredom without humor. Whatever be the merits of today's busy and hectic life, it certainly has taken away laughter from our lives. Mental breakdowns we see around are proofs of it.
This 'Jokes E-book' of ours is an effort to dissolve your tensions in a solution of smiles, chuckles and laughter. We earnestly believe that our collections of hilarious jokes will displace your worries...
14) Humorous Middles
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Humorous Middles is a fine collection of humorous middles, published in major newspapers and magazines. What is it that makes the middle stand apart? The middle is a short composition, hardly ever more than 600 to 800 words. It draws strength from its in-built humour that skips and romps with the deftness of a mountain goat. It thus turns into a sort of mirror, at times, concave, at times, convex, (never does it remain a plain mirror), and manages...
15) Humorous Poems
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This poetic book contains about 200 humorous poems. Different types of social phenomena are presented. They are composed in compliance with the author's concept of those phenomena. Humorous poems are satirical ones which have tastes of ridicule, sarcasm, satire, irony, wittiness,... about unacceptable social phenomena. Some of them introduce the wordplay in the Vietnamese literature and a one-word-with-2-different-meanings style such as the poems...
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Can it be so? Is Mr. Weatherbee really leaving his post at Riverdale High? It appears so, and while his replacement, Mr. Bartlett introduces himself as a pal of a principal, it soon becomes apparent that he's piranha in disguise! With both students and faculty caught in the crossfire, there's nothing else to do but form an alliance to try to get Weatherbee back! 'Summer Spirits': When all the electrical machines in the school start operating by themselves,...
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Many people say that in addition to pills, capsules, ointments, and suppositories, laughter is the best medicine. However, the solemn places that dispense medicaments are often bereft of lively humor. Instead, the field of retail pharmacy can be fraught with stress, drudgery, exhaustion, unreasonable patient demands, and few bathroom breaks. Nevertheless, and no matter the typical arduous days involved, small snippets of amusement tend to sneak in...
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Includes James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," now a major motion picture! Spanning nearly 300 years of American humor, this anthology of entertaining tales ranges from the inventive mind of Benjamin Franklin and his 1732 story, "Alice Addertongue," to Simon Rich's 2012 fable, "Center of the Universe." More than 30 witty short stories include works by Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Langston Hughes, and other masters of the...
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Comedy is everywhere if you allow yourself to see it-to feel it. It can be subtle or overt, dark or joyous, adorable or cheeky. Such ageless versatility is beyond compare. Curated with that in mind, author R.A. Clarke proudly presents sixteen humorous stories to the world.
Between these covers, you'll find short fiction in several genres. Each tale is infused with unique characters and comical situations, some rooted in reality, others certainly...