What was the dreadful thing that threatened the fortunes of the Kingdom of Haufzeignet? How did a dinner engagement cause Lord Trivett’s world to fall apart? And what was the single, fateful phrase that destroyed young Mary’s life forever?

From the pen of writer James Lark comes a series of short stories about people who are almost certainly worse off than you are. Often bizarre, sometimes unsettling, occasionally downright upsetting, they can at least guarantee to provoke a response - and, in an increasingly mechanised world, you can take comfort from the fact that no AI could possibly come up with an audiobook like this.

Have a laugh at somebody else’s expense, or at the very least, reassure yourself that reality is not quite as bad as this…