Short stories tagged with Humorous

Listing 8 stories.

A typical nice-guy colleague with a toxically positive attitude delivers an exhortation to his colleagues about eliminating self-doubt so as to increase work performance.

At a medieval-themed amusement park, a man is put in a difficult situation when he is given a promotion that could help his family in exchange for covering his boss' crimes.

A young girl waits patiently to be allowed back into an alternate universe, where she has been prophesied to resolve an ancient war.

An employee of a tech company attends the yearly business conference on a boat only to be one of just a few individuals who remain unaffected by a mysterious illness.

When a mysterious new member joins a group of struggling authors, the friends discover that they may have a supernatural creature in their midst, who can grant a single author success above all the others—but at a cost.

Two paranormal investigators disguised as insurance agents find themselves inspecting a suburban Canadian home after the accidental and gruesome deaths of two elderly residents.

After a death in the family, a son travels with his father to his rural Mexican hometown to settle the estate. The town is littered with all the abandoned houses, roads, and people left behind that didn't migrate to big cities; a fate which his father fears will be his if he does not immigrate to California like his brother.

Two extraterrestrial beings land on Earth in search of information and struggle to adapt.