Maison d'édition: Sheba Blake Publishing
Humorist Stephen Leacock was known for targeting the excesses of the aristocratic class in his lighthearted satire. This tendency is on full display in Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, a series of stories and vignettes that mock the pomp, pretensions and silly customs of the upper classes.
Synopsis Oh, my ears are bleeding. Oh my god, it is a dinosaur. The dinosaurs are running, run, run, run, run, run. Run, run, run. Where are we supposed to run? Where are we going to hide? Under this bench. Okay, let's hide. I am a dinosaur. I am hungry. I need wood to eat. I am going to bite this bench. Ha ha ha. A thrilling and funny dinosaur chase unfolds in this lively scene. Chaos erupts as someone shouts, “Oh my ears are bleeding! Oh my god, it is a dinosaur!” Panic spreads as dinosaurs run wild, prompting everyone to yell, “Run, run, run!” In the midst of confusion, two people hide under a bench, hoping to escape danger. Suddenly, a dinosaur appears—not hungry for meat, but strangely craving wood! It announces, “I need wood to eat,” and tries to bite the bench. With humor and surprise, this imaginative moment mixes fear, fun, and absurdity in a cartoon-style adventure.Voir livre
In The Danger of Lying in Bed, Mark Twain delivers one of his signature satirical essays—witty, irreverent, and surprisingly insightful. What begins as a commentary on the perils of travel insurance quickly becomes a biting observation on human fear, misplaced caution, and the absurdity of trying to avoid life’s dangers. Twain’s narrator mocks the tendency of people to avoid risky adventures—like rail travel—while ignoring the very real dangers that await them in the “safety” of their own bedrooms. With his trademark humor and a touch of morbid irony, Twain reminds us that death can come for anyone, anywhere… so we might as well live boldly. Perfect for fans of dry wit, sharp social commentary, and timeless humor, this short essay remains hilariously relevant more than a century after it was written.Voir livre
Years after fleeing San Francisco and getting sober, Jhanvi has made a life for herself working at a grocery co-op and saving for her surgeries. But when her friend (and sometimes more) Henry mentions that he and his techie festival-goer friends spent $100,000 to transform a warehouse basement into a sex dungeon, Jhanvi starts wondering if there's a way to exploit these gullible idiots. She returns to San Francisco, hatching a plan to marry Henry for his company's generous healthcare benefits. Jhanvi enters a world of beautiful, decadent fire eaters and their lavish sex parties. But as her pretensions to cynicism and control start to fade, she develops a Gatsbyesque attraction to these happy young people and their bold claims of unconditional love. But do any of her privileged new friends really like or accept her? Her financial needs expose the limits of a community built on limitless self-expression, and soon she has to choose between doing what's right, and doing what's right for her. This darkly funny novel skewers privileged leftist millennial tech culture, and asks whether "found family" is just another of the twenty-first-century's broken promises.Voir livre
Synopsis Mr. Recall, number 99, coma center, deep sleep avenue, left brain, right brain, puncture district. Mrs. Timid, bold and beautiful apartments, very strong arms park, anxiety overload road. Mrs. Something, 0.0 nothing crescent, everything building, lost parking street junction, near runaway train station. Mr. ICU, ICU permanent resident, nurse and doctor clinic, ECG enterprise hospital. One day in the year 0000, a group of 26 friends came and met in a place called Alpha. Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong. I have nothing to do, can I go to the toilet instead? They all came with their pet animals. Mr. Recall, number 99, coma center, deep sleep avenue, left brain, right brain, puncture district. Mrs. Timid, bold and beautiful apartments, very strong arms park, anxiety overload road. Mrs. Something, 0.0 nothing crescent, everything building, lost parking street junction, near runaway train station. Mr. ICU, ICU permanent resident, nurse and doctor clinic, ECG enterprise hospital. One day in the year 0000, a group of 26 friends came and met in a place called Alpha. Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong. I have nothing to do, can I go to the toilet instead? They all came with their pet animals. In a world where addresses are as bizarre as their residents, Stupid Address 2 takes you on a hilariously absurd journey through the lives of Mr. Recall, Mrs. Timid, Mrs. Something, and Mr. ICU — each living in the most ridiculously named places you've never imagined. One mysterious day in the year 0000, 26 eccentric friends (and their equally odd pet animals) gather in a land called Alpha. What do they want? Nobody knows. What happens next? Probably confusion. With conversations that spiral into toilet requests and philosophy, this laugh-out-loud story proves that reality might just be the silliest place of all.Voir livre
What if ordinary language hid extraordinary secrets? Philip K. Dick’s delightfully strange short story The Eyes Have It takes a single misunderstanding and spirals it into full-blown paranoia in the way only Dick can. When an unsuspecting reader opens a simple paperback, he discovers bizarre phrases that seem to describe humans casually removing eyes, hands, and limbs as if it were nothing. Horrified, he becomes convinced he has stumbled onto a hidden truth: alien beings who can detach their body parts walk among us — and the book is their confession. What follows is a hilarious and unsettling descent into misunderstanding, speculation, and fear. With Dick’s trademark mix of satire, sci-fi curiosity, and slippery reality, the story skewers the way we interpret the world around us — and how easily imagination can outrun truth. Narrated with sharp wit and perfect comic timing by Drew Caton, this short tale delivers a punch of classic speculative weirdness in just minutes. A must-listen for fans of retro sci-fi, humor with a paranoid twist, and the early works of Philip K. Dick.Voir livre
A 1920s cosy aboard a yacht on the Scilly Seas Golden-age gadabout Anty Boisjoly, his valet Vickers, the weary and wary Inspector Wittersham, and a passenger list of howling eccentrics find themselves prey to the sway and spray of the Scilly Seas when what at first seems a simple, unexplainable, locked-stateroom murder twists into a tale of pirate treasure, perilous weather and treacherous endeavours at sea. Just as with all Anty Boisjoly stand-alone stumpers, Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast is best enjoyed by those who can stand some slight silliness in their maritime mysteries. Anty Boisjoly Mysteries are old-school, clean and cosy, locked-room mysteries with improbable plots inspired by Agatha Christie written in the style of an homage to PG Wodehouse.Voir livre
