The Peasant    by Prashenjit Shome
Price: $1.99 USD. 25920 words. Language: English. Published on July 29, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Struggle of a poor, old peasant against poverty and humiliation. After death of his bullocks he had no money to buy a new pair of bullocks to till his paddy field. He knew that if he cannot grow paddy during the rainy season then his family will starve but he was tired running from one person to another seeking help. At last he tied the shaft on his neck and tried to plough the field.......

Retreat From Rostov Part One    by Paul Hughes
Price: $2.99 USD. 64920 words. Language: English. Published by UCS PRESS  on July 28, 2011. Fiction » Literature » War.
Here is how a feature in TIME magazine described Retreat From Rostov: The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood. This epic World War II novel was inspired by the first battle in which Hitler's armies suffered defeat.

The Escape of Bobby Ray Hammer, A Novel of a '50s Family    by David Sheppard
Price: Free! 152300 words. Language: English. Published on July 28, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Among the 5 finalists in the Faulkner Society Novel Competition. The Escape of Bobby Ray Hammer is a second generation Grapes of Wrath novel. Bobby is just entering his senior year in high school and eager to graduate and go on to college to get out of his rural farming community; however, he must resolve family problems that originated, he believes, with his brother's death.

The Life and Times of Young Sonny Tompkins    by Michael E. Benson
Price: $2.99 USD. 61690 words. Language: English. Published on July 27, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.
When young Sonny Tompkins is sent to Utah to live with his Uncle Buck while his Dad serves a two year sentence for a crime he didn’t commit, he leaves his boyhood behind and embarks upon a series of adventures that will make him older than his years.

The Unexpected Neighbor    by Terri Peterson
Price: $2.99 USD. 94300 words. Language: English. Published on July 26, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
Janis and Rick are dealing with their rocky marriage when their middle child, Kit, tries to kill herself. When Kit is released from the hospital, she gets to know the new neighbor, Veronica. Although Kit and sister Lindsay attach themselves to the nomadic Veronica, Janis remains suspicious of the neighbor, especially when Veronica’s revelations threaten Kit's unsteady sense of self.

Epiphanies    by Michael E. Benson
Price: $2.99 USD. 53760 words. Language: English. Published on July 26, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
When Rob Stuart's wife Jo dies from cancer he is left broken and disconsolate. Nothing, it seems, can jar him from his grief. Nothing, that is, but the sound of Jo's voice which he hears as he follows a complex set of instructions she left for him in regard to the spreading of her ashes. Is it really her, or is it only a figment of his imagination?

Happy Face    by Christopher Reel
Price: $2.99 USD. 40030 words. Language: English. Published on July 26, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Happy Face is the story of a loner dealing with his mother's suicide, love, morality, mortality, the meaning of life, and other themes in the human condition as he comically tries to fine his way.

Confessions of a Velour-Shirted Man: Collected Stories    by Stuart Connelly
Price: $1.99 USD. 53700 words. Language: English. Published on July 26, 2011. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.
No matter what modern angst ails you, there is always the curative power of surreal, modern, short fiction. If Rod Serling and Patricia Highsmith had a bastard child (and who's to say they didn't?) and that bastard started writing... well, the feverish results might be much like these unforced "Confessions."

The Ginkgo: An Intellectual and Visionary Coming-of-Age    by John Janovy, Jr
Price: $2.99 USD. 92120 words. Language: English. Published on July 26, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
The Ginkgo explores the clash between tradition and creativity. A girl from a western ranch—symbolizing tradition—comes to a large university and writes four highly personal and creative papers about a single tree. In the process, she produces a sobering vision of America a thousand years into the future, the day her chosen tree dies.

The Empty City    by Berit Ellingsen
Price: $2.99 USD. 29740 words. Language: English. Published on July 25, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Urban explorer and lucid dreamer Brandon Minamoto discovers that outside his thoughts and emotions exists a world that is silent and open, surrounding him and everyone else. The Empty City is about awakening to universal truths and one’s true self, told in short episodes that each describe a place, a dream, a question, a memory, a fantasy or an event.