Comedy stories

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47 stories

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484

Forty-seven stories where someone's account of the moment does not match the moment itself, and the comedy lives in that gap: a City clerk certain posterity wants his diary, a farmer with debts, two children and a patient donkey, an Amsterdam coffee broker declared enemy of poetry, and a match who wakes up swearing that last night you fake-proposed to him and agreed to move in with his five dogs.

TeenThe Diary of a NobodyA City clerk moves into a house called The Laurels and begins the diary he is sure posterity will be glad of.Complete · 128 chaptersTeenThe Inimitable JeevesBingo Little falls permanently in love about once a month, and the bills for it always seem to route through your flat.Complete · 61 chaptersMatureHair of the DogComplete · 42 chaptersMaturePlus OneComplete · 40 chaptersMatureSay CheeseYou match with Leo, a social media influencer tired of not knowing who's genuine in his line of work — and hopeful you might be different.Complete · 30 chaptersTeenThe Enchanted AprilAn advertisement in The Times offers a small mediaeval castle in Italy to those who appreciate wistaria and sunshine.Complete · 22 chaptersTeenA Voyage of ConsolationOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenAn American Girl in LondonOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenBarchester TowersOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenBelindaYou are Belinda Portman, placed in Lady Delacour's fashionable London house for a season your aunt has stage-managed from a distance.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenBotchanYou jump from a schoolhouse upper floor to answer a boy who took you at your word, and your family draws its conclusions.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenCranfordYou are Mary, drawn into Cranford's careful campaign to inspect the town's new military neighbor before gossip can.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenDead SoulsOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenDon QuixoteYou play Sancho Panza, a farmer with debts, two children and a patient donkey.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenHorace ChaseYou are Ruth Franklin, sprawled by the fire at Far Edgerley while your sister Dolly needles you about your posture and your torn skirt.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenManaliveYou are Mr Moon, a tenant at Beacon House, when a gale blows a laughing stranger over the garden wall with a red umbrella and no luggage.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMax HavelaarYou are Batavus Droogstoppel, Amsterdam coffee broker and declared enemy of poetry.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMiss MarjoribanksOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenMr. Midshipman EasyYou are Jack Easy, raised on your father's creed that no man's rank makes his orders right, sent to sea at seventeen to test it on the Royal Navy.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenPeter SimpleOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Flying InnYou are Joan Brett, waiting at the edge of the sea for word of Captain Patrick Dalroy, missing since a war on a small Mediterranean island.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Heavenly TwinsYou play Angelica, the elder of two mischievous twins visiting Fraylingay under a father's plea for one quiet evening.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe History of Mr PollyYou play Alfred Polly, a shopkeeper in the dying town of Fishbourne, watching debt finally catch up with a business he never wanted.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Napoleon of Notting HillYou are Auberon Quin, an idle humorist in a London that eighty years of prophecy left ordinary.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Pickwick PapersOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Posthumous Memoirs of Bras CubasOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Sea LadyOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Simple Adventures of a MemsahibYou are Helen, engaged to George Browne after a summer of tennis, and left in Canbury a year while he returns to India.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe WardenOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureTom JonesA hunt in Squire Western's fields, a hedge with a sharp drop behind it, and a mare that has stopped answering the rein.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureA House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy JuneAugust light enters through leaded panes and falls across old Chelsea china, Queen Anne silver, and a paper list.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAmong the BrigandsUncle Moses and four boys arrive in Naples to find more hands on their luggage than they can count.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGirls of the ForestEight sisters sat on the lawn of a beautiful but neglected house planning for Aunt Sophia's arrival the next afternoon.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMrs. Cliff's YachtAlone in a grand New York hotel after the Horns left for Niagara, you felt absolute ownership of wealth for the first time.Preview · 1 chapterMaturePhilistiaSunday has run late at Epsilon Terrace, and Harry Oswald arrives in evening dress for a reception that distrusts its own collar.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Associate HermitsPreparations for Kate's marriage to Rodney had agreed in every detail except the journey expected after the ceremony.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Captain's Toll-GateOlive Asher asks a visitor for a seven-cent toll and gets an inspection of her manners instead.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. AleshineTwo days beyond Honolulu, the steamer carrying you toward Yokohama collided at night with an eastbound vessel that vanished in fog.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Clever Woman of the FamilyOn Rachel Curtis's twenty-fifth birthday, her elder sister Grace presented the white rose wreath their mother had chosen with loving care.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Dodge ClubParis crowded its streets to watch troops depart for Italy under a confusion of uniforms and cheers.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe DusantesAfter a long Pacific return and several California excursions, your party took a stage toward the eastbound railroad.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe EgoistBetween showers, you walked the terrace with Constantia Durham while guests followed in loose groups before dinner.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Honorable MissYou explained your daughter's name while Mrs Bertram listened with polite attention from the best chair.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe House of MarthaYour grandmother sat by her back-parlor window while you described three European days spent in the Forest of Arden.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Late Mrs. NullAfter a walk through Midbranch woods, you sat opposite Roberta March on the broad platform crossing her uncle's lawn fence.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Remarkable History of Sir Thomas UpmoreYour father boiled soap in Maiden Lane and weighed more than eighteen stone, while your mother was nearly as substantial and twice as certain.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Squirrel InnAt nine on a July morning, you watched freight cross the Manasquan's pier while waiting to leave for a country writing retreat.Preview · 1 chapter

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