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Asunder    by Sean Walsh
Price: $1.99 USD. 5570 words. Language: English. Published on April 21, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

0.5 star(3.50 from 4 reviews)
Scenes from an Irish boyhood. Not so much Voyage round my Father as Travels with my Dad... A man looks back at his formative years, early adolescence... Snatches from the past... fragments from a world long forgotten... A kind of mosaic rather than a formal memoir... Centred around not one but two moments of poignant sundering...
Red Rock    by Kimberley  Patterson
Price: $2.00 USD. 71180 words. Language: English. Published on February 19, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Western.

0.5 star(3.50 from 4 reviews)
Rachel Hunter, a high spirited teen, is struggling to take care of her ill mother. Her mother’s illness soon forces the family to sell everything, and move to a new town seeking a cure they can't afford.
Ablaze    by Harsh Thakar
Price: Free! 3140 words. Language: English. Published on April 30, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.

0.5 star(3.50 from 4 reviews)
A story loosely based on the story of Rumplestiltskin. This book tells a story of a young woman Mia as she encounters a will-o-wisp who wishes to take her child.
Madeleine's Life, A Short Story    by E. Miranda Hernandez
Price: Free! 1290 words. Language: English. Published on November 10, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
When Madeleine's father dies, her mother seems to lose her way. Madeleine may only be eight, but her maturity shines through in this brief look at a family after tragedy, told from Madeleine's point of view. -Flash Fiction/One Shot-
Conquered People    by DL Stone
Price: Free! 2580 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
It's like watching your neighbors fight. An unemployed man tries to adjust to being a house husband and watches as his breadwinner wife starts to make all the decisions. What happens when a man loses his masculinity? Droplets of blood bloomed on my thumb. A small spot of flesh had ripped off and the fresh white meat stung whenever I quit sucking on it. I scooted myself out from under...
Trials of Life    by Junying Kirk
Price: $2.99 USD. 127600 words. Language: English. Published on June 20, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
This thought-provoking novel follows Pearl in her cultural adaptation to the UK, with snapshots of her memories of China. It is about transition. It deals with clashes of culture, sexual harassment, bullying and falling in love. Would real life teach Pearl a lesson that there is no perfect justice in this world? Can fate explain everything or are they simply trials of life?
To the Meadow's Edge    by A.R. Norris
Price: Free! 1310 words. Language: English. Published on February 14, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Georgia wakes to find herself in a very unusual place...and with very unusual company.
Bitter Apples    by M.C.A. Hogarth
Price: $0.99 USD. 1950 words. Language: English. Published on March 4, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
The kiss of the Emperor is poison, and only his destined consort may bear it. Sickened by her attempt, Erianthe decides she is not the one. Or is she?
Verruca Music    by Stuart Estell
Price: Free! 13200 words. Language: English. Published by eight cuts gallery press  on June 30, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Absurdist comedy of the very blackest kind, informed by a love of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Peter Cook & The Goon Show. Featuring the Fibonacci sequence, floors that open up without warning, a powerful laxative, and a duvet that periodically changes colour, Verruca Music charts the narrator’s emergence from a state of fearful near-immobility assisted only by entertainments of his own devising
Goodbye Summer, Goodbye    by Simon Black
Price: $1.99 USD. 79160 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
An ageing academic sets out on a journey across Australia to revisit the places of his youth, in a bid to make sense of the dark events of the past that have haunted him all his life.