11 Super Sad Short Stories You Can Read Right Now If You Need A Good Cry. by Charlotte Ahlin. ... The result is this funny-yet-devastating story about loss and magic goggles.

All but one of the stories has been previously published, and most are set in the Northwest. Many of them are sad – sad tales about sad people living sad lives. But they are also funny, and ...

Telling those funny or sad stories about Valentine's Day isn't the easiest when everyone's solely in a loving mood. But, a few people stepped up to the plate and shared their stories on Fixing ...

It manages to be both funny and heart-breakingly sad at the same time. As Roddy Doyle puts it in a generous blurb: “Some of the wildest, most arresting, just plain brilliant short stories I’ve ...

Sad Stories, Happy Endings. By Polly Leider. March 27, 2006 / 12:57 PM EST / CBS ... "It's funny sometimes because I think that if that didn't happen I might not tell stories, ...

The Big Short never wants you to be bored — because its message is so urgent. 3) This is a riotous comedy, shot through with anger, that eventually gets really sad Comedy and anger taste great ...

Yes, technically this is not one short story but rather "Five Short Stories." Lydia Davis writes stories so short, though, that all together they still make up one funny, sad, compact short story ...

Stay tuned – the final list of 100 favorite funny books is coming in August! If you could use a laugh right about now — and I think we all could — the NPR Books Summer Reader Poll is here ...

We have collected the true, terribly sad stories of lotto winners that show that winning the lottery, despite the seeming wonderfulness of having some $500600-million more dollars (before taxes ...