funny short stories for seniors printable

Treat yourself to some fireside reading and capture the holiday spirit with a bit of old-fashioned storytelling from Christmas past. Some include illustrations as well! If you prefer to listen to these Christmas stories, you’ll also find a link to the audio version, if available. You can read these Christmas stories online for free, print them out, or download them for free to your e-reader. And I’ve included New Year’s stories as well, since Christmas was historically seen as a twelve-day period, beginning on December 25th and ending on January 5th, or Twelfth Night. There’s also a range of “takes” on Christmas in these stories: from traditional Christmas stories to fantastical, funny and humorous to serious or sweet. Frank Baum–author of The Wizard of Oz–wrote a Christmas fantasy story about Santa Claus getting kidnapped by daemons? Or that Washington Irving–the man known for his Halloween tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”–also wrote Christmas stories that would serve as inspiration for A Christmas Carol? Some of the authors on this list might surprise you, as they did me. I had so much fun rounding up a few of these Christmas stories from famous authors for you to enjoy here! Since that first Christmas story from 2,000 years ago, the holiday season has grown up with hundreds of Christmas stories both religious and secular that reflect what the season means to us. Between them, the first few chapters of these books cover the birth of Jesus, and the familiar stories of the angels, shepherds, and wise men that we see depicted in Christmas pageants and ornaments and nativity scenes today. But when they are forced to decide what is worth sacrificing for love, dreams, and each other, even the smallest mistake could bring on the end the world….The most classic Christmas story can be found in the books of Mathew and Luke, from the Bible.

Mary Still and Tom Curious are part of an inter-dimensional agency that monitors terrors and imaginings and the real-world disasters those nightmares create. FriesnerĪ Taste of Joie De Vivre by Kellen Knolanīarbarians by David Farlan Life Between Dreams The Grasshopper and My Aunts by Esther M. Powell’s Books | IndieBound | Book Depository Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Poignant, bittersweet, frightening, and funny, these stories pour out worlds that are both lovely and odd, darkly strange and tantalizingly familiar, where no matter how fantastic the setting or situation, love, freedom, and hope find a way to take root and thrive. From dark fairytales to alien skies, Monk’s stories blend haunting yesterdays, forgotten todays and twisted tomorrows.

This collection of twenty-two short stories are measured out with a cup of normal and a pound of the fantastic.

Funny short stories for seniors printable