The remains of the day.    by John Mutunga
Price: $0.99 USD. 3690 words. Language: English. Published on August 24, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Kamau has just lost his job. He goes home, and for the first time in six years, he is the tender lover he has never been to his wife. When his wife goes to prepare him some food, he walks out and meets a drunken man. He kills the man, and then in anger and pity jump off a flat.

The Box: An Indian Tale    by JC Andrijeski
Price: $0.99 USD. 16400 words. Language: English. Published by White Sun Press  on August 24, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Visionary & metaphysical.
Priscilla putters along in her usual life of bridge and gossip and coffee shops and shopping at the local markets in the small Indian town where she lives, until one morning, the mysterious man known only as the Pharsee gives her a box. The thing is filthy, twitchy and just plain wrong…but no matter what Priscilla tries, or how many cleaning boys she fires, she simply cannot get rid of it.

The Cinderella Obsession (Contemporary Fairytale Romance)    by Amber Carew
Price: $3.99 USD. 60660 words. Language: English. Published by Edge of Ecstasy  on August 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.
(3.00 from 1 review)
From award winning author, Opal Carew, writing as Amber Carew, whose books regularly appear in Amazon's Top 100 Contemporary Romance list. Her short story THREE hit #15 on Barnes & Noble's overall bestsellers list. Can Vanessa risk falling in love with a man obsessed with a fantasy woman -- even though that woman is her?

Whispering Whale    by Edward J. Zivica
Price: $7.77 USD. 120800 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Visionary & metaphysical.
"Whispering Whale" is an epic novel charting the destruction and eventual cleansing of the planet with a huge reduction in human population. It takes the reader into a post-apocalyptic world of survival and hardship. However, all has not been without reason; there comes a rebirth. It is a strongly spiritual story with characters discovering themselves and a whale with a gift to bestow.

War Stories    by Peter Rehard
Price: Free! 94100 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Is there any person on earth that does not lie? "War Stories" is a 'not likely' collection of stories told by men of their time in war , all building themselves up and highlighting their greatness. Hard to believe, improbable, preposterous: adventurous, curious, ridiculous, each story asks the reader, when do we become whole in ourselves?

The Poet's Fables    by Peter Rehard
Price: Free! 83420 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Often bad people appear good; cowards appear courageous. People have a way of distorting the truth and that is what "The Poet's Fables" is about. A poet tells stories of his life, all following his travels through lands filled with people that were quite different than how they were seen.

The Fables of Fate    by Peter Rehard
Price: Free! 91240 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
A young man is helpless in his choices of life. He has decided it is better to do nothing rather than see bad happen at his hands. He encounters a group of old men that proceed to each tell stories from their own lives on the subject of fate, specifically, stories of good choices they made turning out wrong. Comic, ironic, mildly depressing stories.

The Renfield Syndrome    by Mundania Press
Price: $4.99 USD. 89130 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Urban.
Rhiannon thought facing off against a deranged child vampire was the most dangerous task she would ever have to undertake, but she’s about to discover making a deal with a demon is far, far worse. Sent forward into another reality, one in which vampires are now dominating nearly extinct humans, she realizes the sooner she returns to her vampire lover, Disco, the better.

The Interloper    by A. F. McKeating
Price: Free! 2120 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Fairy tales.
A fairytale, in which a cat falls out of one story and into a new adventure.

Things That I Carry    by William Naylor
Price: $1.50 USD. 3870 words. Language: English. Published on August 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
"Things That I Carry" is a wide ranging collection of 55 previously unpublished flash fiction tales each comprised of 55 carefully selected words. Flash fiction is not to everyone's taste. If you haven't read or tried haiku you may not like the conciseness and brief beauty of Flash.