Fiction
Intercast Season One
Read by Edward G. Talbot
Edward G. Talbot
In this collection of short stories, Edward G. Talbot provides thrills, chills, laughs, and drama in abbreviated form. If you like bite-siz…
What Diantha Did
Read by Betsie Bush
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate …
The Death of the Lion
Read by Jacquerie
Henry James
This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journ…
The Red Room
Read by William Peck
August Strindberg
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…
Other People's Heroes
Read by Blake M. Petit
Blake M. Petit
Josh Corwood has spent his life admiring the superheroes that protect Siegel City. He's wanted to join them, wanted to be like them... but e…
False Alarm
Read by Heather Stallings
Heather Stallings
False Alarm is a wry, fish-out-of-water story about Kate McCabe, a dedicated but somewhat neurotic woman trying to juggle her career at a sp…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Molly Make-Believe (version 2)
Read by ashleighjane
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to…
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…
The Tale of Major Monkey
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children's books.Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worl…
Further Foolishness
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the writte…
Short Story Collection Vol. 022
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 022: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Dead Beautiful
Read by Melanie Dugan
Melanie Dugan
What if the man you love is the God of the Dead? That’s the problem facing Persephone. Her mother, Demeter, is a Level-1 goddess who wants P…
A Touch of the Sun and Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Mary Hallock Foote
Four short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short storie…
Blackthorn Farm
Read by Tony Oliva
Arthur Applin
But he was afraid. He had failed twice already. He could not afford to fail a third time. If he failed ruin faced him, and disgrace. His fat…
Pee-Wee Harris
Read by Tom Weiss
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Percy Keese Fitzhugh was an American author of nearly 100 books for children and young adults. The bulk of his work revolves around the fict…
Danny Ain't
Read by Joe Cottonwood
Joe Cottonwood
Danny's father goes into a hospital for a while, leaving Danny to live alone in a trailer with no money and little food. That's when the coy…
Squinty the Comical Pig
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Richard Barnum
"This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors t…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 014
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 014: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Miss Lulu Bett
Read by Jacquerie
Zona Gale
Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight. She …