The Next Big Wood Project    by Marina Rojas
Price: $1.99 USD. 8480 words. Language: English. Published on May 8, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » General.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Ernest and Bo Dean are wood working geniuses who embark on their latest next big wood project. With a backwoods approach to life and the simpler life, they take you on their latest effort to stay known as the Michelangelos of their craft.

Soft Knock Life    by Colin Jordan
Price: $5.69 USD. 99590 words. Language: English. Published by Gingernut Books Ltd  on May 7, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
Cyril’s life is perfect. It’s 1977 yet he knows little of the racial and social tension borne by his black British contemporaries. He’s a happily integrated entrepreneur and a liberal Pentecostal. Then along comes Natasha who unleashes Cyril’s sexual, racial and religious fears and deepest secret.

Children of the Cromlech    by John O'Neill
Price: $3.99 USD. 25900 words. Language: English. Published on May 6, 2012. Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Three young Irish growing up in the unromantic Ireland of the 1930's... As children they meet around a secret Druid's stone for illegal smokes... They follow very different paths, but later their lives reconnect in surprising ways when the Stone is destroyed and the village is bitterly divided... At last, however, they all find their own hard-won enlightenments.

The End of Texas    by Juan Batista
Price: Free! 38630 words. Language: English. Published on May 5, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Hispanic & Latino.
(4.00 from 1 review)
A bumbling Texas governor flirts with secession. Far right militias flock to his call and prepare for violence to bring about independence. A backlash from Indigenous Mexicans in Texas calls for the Aztlan Now movement, Mexicans wanting to secede FROM Texas and stay loyal to the US. Militias, Brown Power people, prison gangs, police, and FBI clash. From this comes new Mexican-majority US states.

Time Bowl. The Last one    by Rocksolana Koval
Price: $1.29 USD. 78350 words. Language: Russian. Published by T/O "Neformat"  on May 4, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
Mulibris and his ward Delvilta having got the names of other people are illegally living in Aynakola - city gained their flesh ghosts who do not respect the alive. Mulibris intends to use his ward in order to get the magic vessel for returning to the past. Heiress of Time Bowl has other plans -she is ready to do everything to bring back to life the lost loved ones

“Alte Sachen”: From The Life Of An Arab Scrap Dealer In Israel - A Middle East Short Story    by Andre Klein
Price: $0.99 USD. 3400 words. Language: English. Published on May 3, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Urban.
Ahmed is an Arab scrap dealer in the Holy Land, just like his grandfather who used to cart away the unwanted belongings of foreigners with his old horse wagon, yelling "Alte Sachen", that ancient Yiddish call for clutter.

Forgotten Cross    by Morris Thyme
Price: $4.99 USD. 49470 words. Language: English. Published by Martian Publishing  on April 28, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Jewish.
Frank Mayhew has watched, through repeated tragedies, the size of his family get smaller and smaller. The recent passing of his mother leaves him alone with one remaining son, the one he never learned to get along with. It seems God was having some monumental joke at his expense. While clearing out his late mother's house, they uncover a small Jewish shrine in the attic. What had mama been hiding?

Djanbun and the Fire-stick    by T. D. Hilliard
Price: Free! 370 words. Language: English. Published on April 27, 2012. Fiction » Children’s books » Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Ethnic.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A retelling of an old story that originates in Australian mythology, about a native who is transformed into a platypus.

Shifting Sands    by Ike L. Obidike
Price: $2.99 USD. 76720 words. Language: English. Published on April 25, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
(5.00 from 1 review)
After seven-years, Uche returns to Nigeria to introduce Thembi to his family. Instead, his mother presents another prospective bride to him. He spurns her proposition and his life spirals out of control - arrested for robbery, betrayed by his best friend and assistant. When his father lapses into coma, he has to make a decision fast. But whatever he decides, his life will not be the same again.

Art for Art's Sake    by Roderic Anderson
Price: Free! 4110 words. Language: English. Published on April 22, 2012. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.
Short story.Satire on modern art.