Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general

Incident in a Duckyard    by H.D. Greaves
Price: Free! 2510 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.
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 en Asturias y Galicia    by Xurde Moran
Price: $2.99 USD. 116860 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.
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.
The Color of Lies    by Victoria Breaux
Price: $2.99 USD. . Language: American English. Published on May 2, 2013. Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Cultural interest, general.

Anne-Marie is a beautiful, rich teenager, with gorgeous blue eyes living in California. Her world is unexpectedly turned up-side down, when a strange man comes into her life. He tells her shocking revelations about her family and racial identity, Anne-Marie is forced to question her very existence. She painfully learns that her family is entangled in a generational web of lies.
I Hate Jake    by H.T.R. Williams
Price: $2.99 USD. 9230 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2013. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller.

Enjoy writers of transgressive literature like Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis? This New Zealand story about a paranoid artist gaining some disturbing insights via a bong full of the mind-wringing hallucinogen salvia divinorum could be for you. Envy, malice, and the burried desire to self-annihilate. Is roommate Jake friend or rival? Burn out or fade away? Who will ultimately destroy who?
Black Moon - The legend of Pango-marama    by Ken Gordon
Price: $0.99 USD. 68050 words. Language: English. Published on April 20, 2013. Fiction » Historical » Australia & New Zealand.

NZ Maori deemed Hawaiki to be their ancestral home & Tiki, 1st man from the heavens, to be son of the god of war and the goddess of death. But half-human, half-bird Manaia, son of Tane and Hine-nui-te-Po, was the 1st. The 2 tribes lived in harmony for generations but food dwindled & the bird people were ousted. Follow their perilous paths, even to the Underworlds, retold in this gripping legend.