Incident in a Duckyard    by H.D. Greaves
Price: Free! 2590 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published on May 15, 2013. Plays » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
This radio play, adapted from a Hans Christian Andersen story, illustrates how easily racism, bigotry, hypocrisy, stupidity, and apathy can escalate into violence and destroy an innocent and gifted creature. Andersen’s folk tales always have a dark side and involve moral and ethical issues. Using poultry and droll humour to show us ourselves, this one is, indeed, a cautionary tale.

While the Sands Whisper    by LR Horowitz
Price: $4.99 USD. 80430 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Jewish.
Ayishah, a freelance American-Israeli photographer, embarks on a seven-month adventure that soon draws her into a taboo love affair with her Bedouin guide, Hakim. He has many secrets, but Ayishah has one of her own: a painful abandonment of her family that needs to heal. It becomes her challenge to reveal, using the terrible beauty of the Sinai, how we overcome the borders that divide us.

Jenno's Gangs    by Jenno Bryce
Price: $0.99 USD. 7720 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Anthologies » General.
Jenno's private look at gang members and life, in her territory of Widdlington.

El Camino Primitivo de Santiago entre Asturias y Galicia    by Xurde Moran
Price: $2.99 USD. 114550 words. Language: Spanish. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
Un singular "Diario de Viaje" en el que nuestro andariego escritor nos revela y comparte sus propias vivencias, sus fotografías, su prosa amena, oficiando para nosotros cual 'guía virtual' en cada una de las etapas del camino. Hagamos de este libro un punto de partida de una experiencia única y muy personal...

Jade    by Belinda Ong
Price: $0.99 USD. 12940 words. Language: Australian English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Historical » General.
Jade remembers her childhood days in Singapore during the 1960s. The third daughter in a family of eight girls, she tells of the difficulties faced by her Ma as she struggles to bring up her girls. Jade's anecdotes of life in her primary school compels us to empathize with her fear and rejection, and rejoice with her achievements. The book concludes with a narrative of a mother's sacrificial love.

Reportage Albanya    by Quelli di ZEd
Price: $0.99 USD. 2830 words. Language: Italian. Published on May 7, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
A differenza degli altri racconti della serie Amblimblone di Max Vergani, quasi tutti umoristici, questo è un toccante spaccato di umanità pur sempre raccontato con l'immancabile ironia che contraddistingue l'autore.

Santa Fe Voices: Poems of New Mexico    by Charles Sullivan
Price: $0.99 USD. 15290 words. Language: English. Published on May 4, 2013. Fiction » Poetry » American poetry.
49 short poems giving voice to the thoughts and feelings of some colorful characters, encountered in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, plus a reader's bonus of 9 tales of the Southwest from the author's recent collection, Uncle Sam's Family: Stories of Exceptional Americans and Their Amazing Animals.

Child With No Name    by Valentine Williams
Price: $5.00 USD. 47970 words. Language: English. Published on May 4, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
A little girl is orphaned in the Boxing Day Tsunami. No one knows who she is or what language she speaks. An aid worker visiting the orphanage discovers her name and wants to reunite her with family members, but the orphanage is in rebel held territory. A ransom is demanded. Aid worker Claire enlists her mother in a daring rescue attempt to free the child, and is punished. Based on a true story

Navajo Girl Escapes an Enemy Camp    by Eva Hutchison
Price: $1.99 USD. 4300 words. Language: English. Published on May 3, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
The story is loosely based on stories my mother told me about my paternal great-great-great grandmother (not sure of the greats) who had been captured by the Apache tribe when she was a young girl. Unlike others she was fortunate enough to escape captivity and rejoin her family. Names and other details of the escape were derived from a little girl's memory of more than half a century ago.

Bretwalda    by Maurice Price
Price: $4.99 USD. 50150 words. Language: English. Published on May 2, 2013. Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom.
Seven Kingdoms all vying for power in the newly conquered British Isles. Only one can be be the overking, or Bretwalda. This is the story of Raedwald, whose remains were found in the Sutton Hoo burial, and his fight to take his small kingdom to supremacy, through battle and skill. His achievement changed the course of history, but do we know the man?