Short stories in the genre Dark Humor

Listing 21 stories.

A man in suburbia finds his neighbor nearly naked standing outside his kids' rooms. He begins to retaliate to prevent it from ever happening again.

A hard-working Pennsylvania nurse discovers her friend and ex-lover dead in a ditch. She searches his pockets for the money she loaned him, and when she doesn't find it, she drags his dead body around town in a search for the money.

A man suddenly realizes that he hates his wife, and resolves to free himself.

An innocent introductory French course called la Muerte teaches vocabulary, by describing a typical farm until the farmer disappears.

On the verge of suicide, a man is presented with an otherworldly spear that enables him to exact swift revenge on his enemies—but he can’t help getting “in his head” about it.

A middle-aged man begins a sexual relationship with his younger brother's wife after his brother kills three people in a car crash and checks into a psychiatric ward.

Two boys spend a day at their unbearably mundane small town's fair. When the boys suddenly decide to leave the town for good, several obstacles, including supernatural occurrences, get in their way.

After a hit-and-run lands a suburban single mother in the hospital, her neighbors gossip about possible suspects, and her son grieves by her bedside.

A young girl's mother goes to the hospital for an operation without explaining to her family what she is sick with or when she will return home.

A high school girl, the lone survivor of two massacres, skips town, believing herself cursed. But when she realizes her virginity and “Final Girl” status afford her protections, she resolves to hunt down serial killers before they claim their victims.