Every week Sniplits offers a free audio short story, and this week we have the delightfully amusing story of the summer that the worst little league players in town became a team.

Budd's Auto Body Angels By Robert Friedman The worst little league baseball team in history has a season full of... (More) Time: 25:50 / $0.99  Sample   Add to Cart  (7)

We have a terrific collection of literary and genre short audio stories to fit your busy, on-the-go life, and we are just beginning to roll out audio enhanced epub stories. Download our short stories just like you download music or digital books for your:

• Mobile phone (any that can play MP3 music)
• iPod, Zune, or other MP3 player
• e-Readers that can play MP3 audiobooks
• Computers

Sniplits now has two audio-enhanced e-shorts for your iPad and devices capable of playing enhanced epub stories. Download them to your computer and add them to your content manager (e.g. iTunes). You can read the story, listen to the actor-read version, or do both! If you already bought the audio version of the story, you will now also see the enhanced version in your library. More are coming soon!

The Girls, by Victor J. Banis, is for anyone who has ever loved a dog. If you ever doubted that dogs feel love, then you didn’t know the girls. Based on the author’s life with Jenny and Prima.

Do the Right Thing, by Karen Burgess, is the story of Detective Kathy Martinez and the woman she convinced to do the right thing and testify against the man who killed her neighbor. When the jury fails to convict him, Kathy feels she must protect Lerone and her daughter. But can she?

Sniplits now has three ebook anthologies published—two mystery and crime ebooks with 11 short stories each, and one ebook with 12 love stories. You can see a list of the stories in each downloadable ebook on our new ebooks page. They can be purchased through Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and other online retailers. We are also beginning to publish enhanced audio short stories—watch for more news on this effort soon!

These are exciting days for storylovers—with so many new authors publishing stories. But, how do know which author to try next? Sniplits is here to help you find great new authors! We read stories by more than a thousand authors each time we open submissions, then carefully select the stories we think our listeners/readers will love.

Robert Friedman's short stories and humor pieces have appeared in Story Quarterly, Narrative, Rose & Thorn, The Kelsey Review, Cosmos Magazine, Bongo News, CAP News, US1, Wild Child Publishing, Sunpiper Press, The Swamp, Quantum Muse, Full Unit Hookup, The Dogwood Journal, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and elsewhere. He is at work on a linked collection of stories that includes all three of the stories published by Sniplits.

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Is there anything more wonderful than having someone tell you a story in a voice that just carries you away? We carefully select just the right narrator to tell each Sniplits story and professionally produce them for the very best listening experience. Most of our stories are read by actors, and you can learn more about them in our Narrator section. This week’s story is read by Todd Busteed.