Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy

The Singer    by Jessica Law
Price: Free! 27410 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

It's 2010, and science has yet to discover how to harness electrical power. The music industry is everything you'd expect: ruthless, conceited, avaricious, shallow—save for only one difference: there is no way to amplify the human voice. Doctor John Doe has discovered a revolutionary new process to transform aspiring musicians into Singers. But at what cost?
Pandora    by Alexis Kypridemos
Price: Free! 710 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy.

(4.00 from 1 review)
Derk tries to convince a nosey customs man that some trunks are best left unopened.
Tales of the Wild    by Alexis Kypridemos
Price: $0.99 USD. 7520 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy.

A collection of 17 wild tales, ranging from a caveman with tax problems, to the most bizarre Olympic Games ever, to a young woman abducted by fanatic ecologists.
Some Thing    by Lori R. Lopez
Price: $0.99 USD. 4870 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
A tongue-in-cheek tale about a man who drank the water, another man and his bazooka, and a lady with a loaded gun. Brought together in a showdown between paranoia and reality, three once-ordinary lives will never be the same. This horror fable is based on an actual environmental hazard along the Mexican border and the potential for disaster.
Transparent Evil    by Tiffany Kaufman
Price: $0.99 USD. 24790 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2012. Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction.

A private island straddling the U.S. - Canadian border on Lake Huron is guarded by two bored and inept security guards. The island's wealthy owner has not visited in years. An ominous mansion, a few outbuildings and several acres of forest stand vacant - or so they thought. A salty old sheriff helps the security guards as they battle beings invisible to the naked eye.
Obituaries    by Leni Matlin
Price: $0.99 USD. 4680 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire.

We're all slouching toward the Inevitable - also known as the Big Sleep, the Big Chill, and the Big Upload. Obituaries has 27 death notices unlike any you'll ever come across, but that's the point, to have a few good yuks and maybe some worthwhile insights about something we can't do anything about. And you'll meet Death who says there's no reason to be scared of him and none of it is personal
The Obituarist    by Paul  A. Waters
Price: $2.75 USD. 11680 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
The Obituarist - Dead people are the safest story around. They can’t answer back. But if you follow in death’s footsteps, it can be dangerous to get too close. An obituary writer seizes his chance when war heroes start dying. Brace yourself for handlebar moustaches, stiff drinks, greed, treachery and, of course, death. But with a twist. “Mordant, funny, dark, teasing and ironic.”
As She    by Amber Gordon
Price: $5.00 USD. 2610 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy.

A collection of four short pieces about what it was to be a woman. Not as in gender bending -- but as in life horrors.
1-900-OLD-LADYs: The Lost Art of Making Lefse    by L. Lee Starr
Price: $2.99 USD. 80340 words. Language: English. Published on May 9, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy.

Two elderly sisters begin answering a 900 sex chat line on their North Dakota farm, while pretending to be respectable members of their close-knit community. When the younger sister's husband turns up dead in the barn, the older sister and fellow townsfolk go to extraordinary lengths to conceal the true nature of his death--which ultimately turns out to be murder.
Overtime    by Willie Wit
Price: Free! 490 words. Language: English. Published on May 7, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Flash fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
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