Diego's Brooklyn by Adrian Del Valle (49 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Joe Barnes' home is a 9X12 room on a quiet tree-lined street near Downtown Brooklyn. He borrowed $10,000 from the Irish Mob in "Hell's Kitchen", a lot of money in 1961. The first payment is well over due. He's late by three months and now they want it all back. That's why he's hiding out across the river with no plans of going back to Manhattan. Joe is biding his time while he waits for a good tip on a fast horse at the Trotters. He still has all of the money he borrowed and believes he has hidden it well. Below, in a two room, first ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Dreams from the Slumber Yard by Christopher Mertic Lewis (Hovering Giraffe Press) (33 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Richard Blake runs The Slumber Yard, a struggling mattress store in small town strip mall. A bitter, misanthropic recluse with no friends or family to speak of, Richard whiles away his boring, monotonous life by tormenting customers and producing a series of low budget TV commercials. Determined to make a change and find meaning in his life, Richard meets a beautiful young woman named Kathy. He quickly falls in love, but after a lifetime alone, Richard doesn't know how to reconcile his own anger and self-loathing with his newfound ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Karmic Blues by Jeff D Buchanan (Cinenovel®) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

KARMIC BLUES Jeff D Buchanan At times humorous and sad, thought-provoking and borderline paranoid, Karmic Blues is a collection of irreverent short stories from author Jeff D Buchanan. The stories herein unveil the many oddities, sufferings, and idiosyncrasies that plague much of mankind. Whether it be a panicked playwright desperately trying to appease an imaginary audience (Killing Stage) -- a professional car thief achieving a perverted sense of morality (Mr. Nick) -- an old man who transforms his front yard into a junkyard of ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Halo Dolly: AKA The Case of Grace (Joe LaFlam: Christian Detective Book 3) by Rick Dewhurst (Quotidian Books) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Joe LaFlam is back, and he's up to his private eyeballs in conspiracies. The Spelunkers are back, too, but are they only puppets in the take-over-the-world game? And is Q real? Joe's latest encounter with the infernal powers gives us the inside scoop on just about every conspiracy theory going, including Q, Q+, the Reptilians, nanobots, transhumanism, MedBeds, cerebral mesh, AI, chemtrails, the Deep State, CERN, portals, quantum computers, the metaverse, the multiverse, parallel earths, the alien invasion, Project Bluebeam, and ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

God Plays Favorites by Charlie Carillo (203 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

An Ivy League graduate who grew up on Park Avenue takes his first job at the most sensational tabloid newspaper in New York City - and soon finds himself writing promotional stories about a cash giveaway contest intended to keep the paper alive! Jack Stone is not your everyday reporter, and his real education doesn't begin in earnest until he hooks up with streetwise photographer Vinnie Corcora to do stories about the contest winners - a cast of characters who bring new meaning to "your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

When She Was Bad (Barclay & MacDonald Book 1) by Neil Bailey (Dexter & Kirby Press) (110 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 'WRITE HERE RIGHT NOW' PRIZE JUST HOW FAR WAS TOO FAR? Life was passing 25-year-old Claire MacDonald by. Okay, so she had a steady office job (but paying barely minimum wage), a too-perfect steady boyfriend (a 'keeper', as Mum constantly reminded her) and a roof over her head (albeit in Deptford), but surely there had to be more in life for her than that? Then she found a bag, an expensive Prada rucksack abandoned at Waterloo station. She couldn't believe her luck. Not just expensive but ridiculously so, a ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

The Divided Stories of America: The Blue Sea by J. C. Finnegan (1 Review)    Price verified 8 minutes ago

What if the United States of America were no longer united? The Blue Sea is the second book in The Divided Stories of America, a series that offers a satirical glimpse of a fractured country through a collection of tall tales and colorful characters. The USA is dead. In its wake lie four autonomous territories: the Southeast, the Pacific, the Frontier, and the Northeast. The first of these is the region where freedom reigns alongside God. It's the place brothers Andy and Caleb Calloway call home. In the aftermath of the National ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Tango Boat Dancers by Charles Frankhauser (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

From the earliest of times, leaders encouraged groups of people to accomplish difficult tasks. Issues associated with maintaining high levels of morale were critical to the success of the tasks at hand. During the 1930's, an Admiral seeks advice from a psychologist in regard to maintaining high levels of morale among sailors serving long tours at sea. A male and two female naval officers lead a team in a clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of a doctor's recommended cures to raise morale and cure homesickness.

Genre: Humor & Satire

Cringeworthy: A Romance Goes Rogue by Irene Woodbury Price verified 6 hours ago

What do you do when you discover that the man you've loved for 10 years has been secretly having an affair with a showgirl for 18 months -- and he has just flown to Las Vegas to propose to her? You could do the ladylike thing, congratulate them, and move on graciously. You could react more compulsively by eating too much ice cream, drinking too much wine, and arranging a slew of online dates. Or you could do what Crescent Weevil, a despairing girl Friday, does: steal 5,000 dollars from the office safe, drive like a maniac from ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Even on Mars by Rayme Michaels (14 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Mars is where the majority of what remains of the human race now reside in the 23rd century, along side of the mutants that descend from humans and are of kin to them. They live together in all peace, harmony and licentiousness, as no shame is left surrounding sexuality, and the red planet takes matter-of-fact ease and pleasure in its prurience, which is enjoyed between humans, mutants and sexbots alike. For what else could fill the void of living in domes on such a dry, barren planet as Mars? As for the roller-coaster ride of murder ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

MURKMYRE (The Murkmyre Saga Book 1) by Clifford James Hayes (hayesdesign.co.uk) Price verified 3 hours ago

Contains some (mild) adult content. If unsure, do not purchase for persons under 16. A fast-paced, silly space adventure. Murkmyre is the first in a saga; the first sequel, Nocturnia, will be published shortly. There is a lengthy, detailed Timeline and a selection of mono Illustrations at the rear of the book. The first misadventures of Prince Voltron Murkmyre - a disgraced royal of the dystopian Murkmyrian Empire. Having been punished for a crime he didn't commit, Prince Voltron is now out for revenge and retribution, ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Alabama Whistle by Ira Nirenberg (Pi Press) (26 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

A one of kind gold whistle topped with a pink diamond that was rumored to have belonged to legendary Coach Bear Bryant, sets the stage for this offbeat murder mystery that takes place in November of 2003. Harness Luken and George Williams escape from Grand Pointe Psychiatric Facility only to find themselves suspects in a murder investigation. Complications arise when they hitch a ride with an eccentric woman named Becky Kay, whose traveling companions are two blind cats and one very clever chicken. The boys tag along with Becky Kay ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Home to What by Richard K. Alison (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Rowan faces his last week of five years in China. He must navigate the choices now in front of him and face the demons that drove him from Ireland. Should he stay in this bustling, polluted, exotic land or return to the fresh damp Emerald Isle. We follow his countdown to his flight date as he grapples with what he has learned about China and its society and tries to come to terms with turning his back his slacker lifestyle, beautiful food and women, his best friend, and the city he has grown to love. Somewhere amongst the week of ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

The Groom Wager (Wrong Way Weddings Book 1) by Lori Wilde (1,608 Review)    Price verified one minute ago

Get Married or Else! Cole Bailey's eccentric billionaire grandfather issues an edict. If his grandsons don't settle down soon, he'll sell controlling interest in the family business. After losing a coin toss to his twin brother, Zach, Cole's gotta go first. On the hunt for a bride, Cole crashes a high society wedding and comes face-to-face with his high school pal, Tess Morgan. The formerly shy, overweight bookworm is no longer the pushover who did Cole's homework for him. At the reception, Tess goads him into a game of pool. Just to ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

The Warden Threat: A Sci-Fi Counter-Fantasy Novel (Defying Fate Book 1) by D.L. Morrese (Fuzzy Android) (82 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Prince Donald, the idealistic third son of the king of Westgrove, believes he may be the only one capable of protecting his country from an invasion spearheaded by an ancient, massive, and magical stone warrior known as the Warden of Mystic Defiance. When he recovers a mysterious scroll he believes may allow him to take control of the Warden, he eagerly takes on the task. Donald, unfortunately, is woefully unprepared. His only understanding of such things comes from reading fictional tales of epic adventures and brave heroes. He ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Margaret Marketing Majorette: Headhunter (Margaret Headhunter series Book 1) by Scott F Neve Price verified 6 hours ago

Inspiring Short Story with a twist! Margaret's new home was the University of Hawaii. Her chosen field of study was marketing. She had a raw passion for all things concerned with attraction and money. It was a hereditary trait from her sainted grandmother's domineering side of the family tree. Yet, the Native American's greatest desire was for music in all shapes and forms. She was the majorette of the university's world class marching band. She choreographed all of the music with the intricate patterns that the band members ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Margaret's Big Hairy Thesis: Headhunter 2 (Margaret Headhunter series) by Scott F Neve (2 Reviews)    Price verified 53 minutes ago

*Inspiring Short Story with a twist! Margaret's troubled heart gave her a plan that was complex to say the least. She wrote a thesis paper to justify investing all of her time in the pet project. To her shock and chagrin, her female professor loved the idea. So Margaret was soon committed to fulfilling her curious thesis. Point of fact, she proposed to prove that all men are not created equal. They are built differently. Some were big and hairy while some were thin and bare. They are wired differently. And they are not above being ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

Wordsworth, Wilde and Wizards: A Short Story by Adam Bertocci (7 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Magic and mystery galore are in store at Britain's most prestigious school for wizards this year, thanks to one amazing new arrival... their very first English teacher. Miss Tinker can't believe she got the job at Merlinfirth Academy; she's underqualified, overanxious and utterly out of her depth. A bibliophile since birth, she relies on her passion for the classics to guide her through the tricky spots, but it's hard to hold teenagers' attention when they'd rather learn sorcery than Shakespeare. But it's not all bad. There's ...

Genre: Humor & Satire

The Clutch by David-Matthew Barnes (Blue Dasher Press) Price verified 13 hours ago

Moments after rejecting a marriage proposal, a woman is tempted by a somewhat obnoxious stranger she meets at a sidewalk café in Greece. This short comedic play features roles for one woman and one man and requires a simple set to produce. The play received a world premiere at The Producers Club in New York City.

Genre: Humor & Satire

SUCK by Thom Young (Bone Machine) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Sometimes being a vampire can really suck. Life sucks for an unemployed vampire. Max Wilson drifts from one dead-end job to the next, until he discovers his destiny. With a taste of blood and revenge for being born, Max creates chaos wherever he goes. Thom Young's novella Suck is destined to make you cringe and laugh out loud. SUCK is the bloodlust story for the rest of us, a hilarious satire of the already too crowded vampire genre.

Genre: Humor & Satire

COMEDY, COCKTAILS AND TAPAS: Hilarious misadventures. (LYNNE & CHRISTOPHER GUMBLETON Book 9) by Lynne and Christopher Gumbleton (310 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Liam, in between jobs, is suddenly gifted the opportunity of a lifetime running his uncle's pub in Tenerife. Hilarious misadventures when Liam is able to leave the rut of a boring life he's living in Bristol behind and help his Uncle Eric run his pub in the sun - The Elephant on the Creek, in Las Americas. Love, romance and happiness are on the horizon for him when out of the blue, Liam's past love and a new love interest both enter his life at the same time, with unexpected consequences for him. Fate, however, lends a hand and ...

Genre: Humor & Satire