Derrick's Got Sh!t Else To Do    by Brião Ipanema
Price: Free! 6480 words. Language: English. Published on November 26, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Derrick lands in Brazil with four months to burn. More interested in characters than culture, he seeks out the fringe element who lurk on the periphery of the backpacker scene. To each he fills a different void, leading Derrick to experiment with his identity, and wonder whether travel abroad can truly change who we are when the holiday ends.

If    by David Wallace Fleming
Price: Free! 2350 words. Language: English. Published on November 25, 2012. Fiction » Adventure » Men’s adventure.
A new city can offer some interesting opportunities for a young man.

The Orange Corset    by Oskar Panizza
Price: $1.00 USD. 8000 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on November 25, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » European / German.
Fritz is the son of a Protestant minister whose church is in a village of eight hundred people. He will discover his life's calling when, having moved to the big city for high school, he sees an astonishing sight in the window of a shop just off a large square.

Five Ricky Huening Stories – Collection I    by P. R. Jimson
Price: $1.99 USD. 5110 words. Language: English. Published by Mossy Feet Books  on November 23, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, Ricky Huening took life one day at a time. These five stories touch his life at enlightening times

They Forgot Me (short story ghost)    by Jeff Lincoln
Price: $2.99 USD. 11410 words. Language: English. Published by Sweet As Publishing  on November 23, 2012. Fiction » Horror » Ghost.
When Mark Ellery dies in an accident at only 7 and a half years of age he must face life after death alone and scared. Unknowingly searching for the meaning of life though tragically dead, while battling through the pain of being forgotten and replaced his spirit remains able to find beauty and wonder in the world. Warning: This 11,200 word short story contains emotionally disturbing scenes.

Pleiades: Seven Stories of Unhurried Solitude    by Lilli Blackmore
Price: $0.99 USD. 10770 words. Language: English. Published on November 20, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Covering the years 2001-2009 and roughly 1000 miles, the seven short stories of Pleiades swim between present and past, reality and dreams, tracing the quiet life of a solitary girl named Mara.

Hauling Out the Trash    by P. R. Jimson
Price: $0.99 USD. 1000 words. Language: English. Published by Mossy Feet Books  on November 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Ricky looked forward to going to the game after he got off work. He had gone to great pains to keep his uniform spotless. The last chore was to take out the trash. Oops.

Carlos Inside Out    by Riley Kilmore
Price: Free! 1500 words. Language: American English. Published by Heyapi Books on November 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Carlos was happy and imaginative before he met forbidding parameters drawn in the dark lead of a number-two hexagonally-shaped Ticonderoga pencil.

A School Story    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3920 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on November 10, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.
Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.

The Time Machine    by P. R. Jimson
Price: $0.99 USD. 1030 words. Language: English. Published by Mossy Feet Books  on November 9, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
Ricky Huening wanted a time machine like the one in the famous H. G. Wells book. Until he realized he had something much better.