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These humorous short stories with beguile you, entertain you and make you chuckle. Gerry Burke

A very funny look at 'sisterly love'

The author’s talent is beyond proficient; he creates with vigor and fresh plotting. It was a joy reading this comic historical epic. I don't think you'll have any problem diving in and loving the ride.

A humorous look at Facebook addiction

A new take on a classic

Running, And Other Bad Habits is a hilarious collection of fictional--or not so fictional--short stories on running and the running life penned by ultra-marathoner, trail-runner and Texas humorist Mark Henderson.

"Discipline: A Play," by Gerard Bianco, is a madcap comedy with a sympathetic mix of wit, banter, love and frustration that flirts with the obsessions that can drive a man to madness. Meet Harold Jenkins, a sexually frustrated man. Essentially isolated in his NYC apartment, he is helpless against the powers that control his every hour. He's stuck in a rut of old habits and that's making things difficult with Lilly, his less-than-generous lady love. But for Harold, new possibilities arrive in the appearance of a mysterious stranger. He can't quite figure out how to respond to this strange person he finds sniffling on his stove in the middle of the night. Bewildered and confused, Harold is faced with a critical decision: will he succumb to the requirements dictated by the powers that be, or will he take control of his life in the only way he knows how?

Readers are laughing out loud over Irene Woodbury’s "A Slot Machine Ate My Midlife Crisis" while finding that they resonate with main character Wendy. Wendy Sinclair, a forty-five year old newlywed, thought everything was going right in her life, but then she moves to Houston where she knows no one, doesn’t like the snooty people she meets, and is ignored by her workaholic husband. When she goes on a girls’ weekend in Las Vegas and decides not to return home, her midlife crisis takes off in unexpected directions. Wendy begins her new Las Vegas life by renting a ramshackle apartment in a building filled with misfits; then she wallows in a blur of spas, malls, and buffets before she becomes a designer of cocktail waitress uniforms and an Ann-Margret impersonator in a casino show with Elvis. After all, a midlife crisis needs to be done right!

In this collection of short essays based on personal experiences, Mark Elswick offers humorous episodes about being a man and father. Whether it’s his daughter sending him to the store to buy those…well, things that transforms him into Padman; his realization that at forty-two, he is slowly turning into an old man; or his reaction to his middle school aged daughter dating a “man” two years older than her, readers—male and female alike—will find themselves cracking smiles when they aren’t busy laughing out loud.