Humour Short Stories

Captain Springsteen looked at her compass. The needle pointed north. Actually, compass needles always pointed north, but this one pointed straight ahead at the N on the compass, basically making it double North. North was dead ahead. She…

Previously in Letter From Hong Kong, thanks to a series of careless lies and multiple bottles of Buckfast, Joe Kennedy has found himself in the back of a truck in the Brazilian rainforest heading towards an ancient temple with his contact…

I’m sitting here in my most relaxed yoga pose (upwards facing badger), typing this letter to you from my room in a luxury five star Hong Kong hotel for which I hope you will reimburse me. Bottles of champagne and jars of caviar litter the…

Previously on Enter Dr. Viking, Paddy and B-Man, Limerick's greatest superheroes, noticed an unusual number of hipsters around the place. Some enhanced interrogation of one of the hipsters has led them to Micky's pub.  The next night our…

It was half past eight on a Friday evening in July. The sky was still bright, the rain had fecked off for a bit and Paddy and B-Man were out for a quiet pint. They were off-duty tonight, costumes left at home, civvies on. Paddy was wearing…

The vanilla milkshake looked at Zeus and sang – ‘I kissed a horse and I liked it. A horse kiss is the final ingredient in my chemical equation to blow my teacher’s retroussé nose right off her face when she reads my essay on the influence…

The French Fry took off his clothes. Two gherkined-up hamburgers, with their salads half-peeping out of their buns, and melted cheese dribbling down their meat, came towards him. They rubbed him down thoroughly with salt and vinegar.…

The hamburger was about to jump up on stage. ‘Smear some of this on your buns before you go on Missy. Mustard on your top bun and mayo on your bottom.’ She could do this. It would be easy. She smeared it on thick. ‘And lay this…

Richard strolled into Dyetrine Industries feeling refreshed after a three day weekend. His face glowed with the results of an extra day of rest and relaxation, and a smile graced his lips. In his hand his briefcase, normally a ball and…

Previously on The Kingdom of the Cavan Strawberries, evil billionaire Dennis O'Brain has stolen the Anti-Craic, a device capable of removing all of the craic from Ireland, from its hiding place in Newgrange. B-Man has chased away O'Brain's…