Barry: 429 books

I have had so many names; Asmodeus, Asmodai, Hashmodai, Hercules, Incubus, Casanova, The Demon Of Lust just to mention a few. I have feasted with heads of state such as Nero, Napoleon, Mary Tutor, Martin Luther, Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler and many more. Queens have fallen to their knees to pleasure...

Creations have a way of flouting their creators. Witness the writer trying to immortalize his work in this dystopian comedy.

A year out of high school, Clarissa, who couldn't even score a date for the senior prom, is into tantric sex, Pablo Neruda and orgasms bordering on divine rapture. And she's still a virgin!

"The Really Good News About God" discusses the God of the Bible and his all-inclusive plans for his creation.What have you heard about God?That God doesn't exist?That God is a kind, white-bearded old man who lives, somewhat disinterestedly, somewhere out there?That God is a mean-spirited...

No, it's not about BDSM, S&M, or anything kinky. It's a book of groaners, humorous short stories (some *very* short) that are sometimes peppered with puns throughout but which *always* end with them. If you enjoy word play, or just enjoy something to groan about, you'll have fun with this collection....

In this short story inspired by Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a young man wakes up one day to discover he has turned invisible. At first, he takes advantage of his newfound ability before quickly learning invisibility is not such a desirable state. Not only can he not be seen, but he can't be heard...

After averting Armageddon, Jordan Hanson thought life would get easier, but in fact it was just the opposite. While he'd successfully driven away the world-destroyers, the Mondragoran, countless dimensional portals had been torn open in the process. Now, Jordan found himself continually dealing with...

Bethany Glaspell approached the first-ever meeting with Great-uncle Vern, a man who returned from the jungles of Vietnam with a Hmong bride and warped personality, much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling no one, neither friend nor family, her intentions.

This is a collection of my favourite funny stories that I have heard over the years. Some include real persons and you know who you are…I have always enjoyed laughing and when I hear a good yarn I try to remember it and now hope to share my funniest stories through this book.

Marie Augustin, an Haitian nurses aide, is blindsided when one of her elderly clients, Peter Marsoubian, asks her to accompany him on a trip to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform in Tanglewood. Does the green-card immigrant, who witnessed first hand the endemic violence in her native country, follow agency protocol or bend rules to accommodate the absurd whim of a dying man?

Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for.

From a place of pastel watercolor reality quite unlike yours or mine. Where everything is perfect and everyone more lovely than we. And arms hold you tenderly. Where nothing will ever drift you apart. But the lack of a smile, the right kind of smile signals the end of most sublime magic. At least...

Mickey Pisludski wears a chain of armor piercing, machine gun shells around his thick neck. The week after his Army discharge, he bored the quarter-inch holes in the soft, brass casings, later threading the bullets together on a length of rawhide. Like so many gold, sharks teeth, the shells fanned out across a khaki T-shirt with a gash under the left armpit.

Every woman Ernie Summers dated possessed a fatal flaw, which is why he is taking an indefinite sabbatical from the opposite sex. Well, maybe not.