Collected here in this volume are the wickedly witty Martin Smith’s first three books of stories of humour. From a llama stepping upon the path to happiness to a grandfather explaining how he won a leave pass from Heaven by defeating God in a game of football, these forty brilliant and outrageously hilarious tales showcase a writer whose comedic flair, wondrous imagination and absurd surrealism bring uncanny yet familiar worlds vividly to life.
The Llama Who Had A Hole Through His Head
Stories of Humour
A young Peruvian sheep laments his unhappiness. A thespian experiences the highs and lows of Tinseltown. A bullied boy is granted three wishes by a fallen star. A famous detective is called upon to solve a curious and colourful case. A manicurist confronts a biblical colossus. A squirrel receives taxation advice from an unexpected source. And an infamous athlete seeks to have history rewritten.
In Finite Jest
Stories of Humour II
A woman unlucky in love purchases a micro-husband on-line. A snobby wine enthusiast applies for a grant from the Arts Council, then seeks to enhance his chances of success through his ‘lived experience’. A young lamb comes of age, only to struggle to find his true place in the world. A garbo attempts to win a much-coveted gold medal. Two brothers setting off to the Great War make a solemn promise to their new brides. A lonely hippopotamus finds friendship and fame when she becomes a comedian. And the first couple are in therapy.
The Cannibal’s Guide to Health and Wellbeing™
Stories of Humour III
A waiter awaits a famous last leap. A disgruntled fictional antagonist attends an AA meeting. A young man brings home a ‘special someone’ to meet his parents. A South American beauty aids the POTUS in overcoming his insomnia. An infomercial spruiks the only self-help guide you’ll ever need. And a Greenlander struggles when raising a progressive child in a modern world.
विषयसूची
The Llama Who Had A Hole Through His Head – Stories of Humour
The Llama Who Had A Hole Through His Head
Black and White and All the Colours in Between
Magic School
Porridge
Lard Lars Gets His Girl: A Modern Fairy Tale
The Curious Case of Cluedo Black
Upside-down Cake
A Mairy Tale
This is The Word of The Lord
Much Ado About Nutting
Three Bean Mix
Rocketman
Hare, There and Everywhere
In Finite Jest – Stories of Humour II
Six Inches of Wedded Bliss
Three Cheers for Hemingway
Larry the Lamb
Queue
Bragging Rights
This Laugh’s On Me
The Garbage Games
Blind Date
The Simile Simulator
War Wounds
Dying in the Second Person
In Finite Jest
Golden Delicious and All That Jazz
Hippity Hip-Hip-Hoo Ray
The Cannibal’s Guide to Health and Wellbeing™ – Stories of Humour III
Floria: An Opera in One Act
AA
Vowels of Abstinence
Goldie
The Gift of the Third Magus
A Skinny Flat White with Two Shots, to Go
Happy Birthday, Mr President!
RNR
The Brief Being of Bea Beeson
The Honourable Egg
The Cannibal’s Guide to Health and Wellbeing™
Iggy and His Issue
Goodbye, Farewell, and Thanks for Having Me
Acknowledgements
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Martin Smith is an Australian author-a humorist, of sorts-of short fiction. He lives and writes in a beach house at the tip of the Bellarine Peninsula. When he is not banging away on his keyboard with thumbs and index fingers or reading snippets of his scribblings to his beloved Rose, you’ll more likely than not find him walking the beach barefoot at low tide or downing a double scoop of Rocky Road at the local ice-creamery. At the time of publication of this volume of collected stories of humour, he was midway through writing a fourth book of stories of humour, The Bear Essentials.
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