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Les bouquins    by Maude Mainguy
Price: $0.99 USD. 2120 words. Language: French. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Courte nouvelle à propos d'un écrivain souffrant du syndrome de la page blanche, qui trouve refuge dans son imposante collection de livres. Toutefois, le calme habituel de sa bibliothèque est troublé par un évènement inusité, qui bouleverse sa routine et redéfinit sa perception de la littérature.
The Chicken Whisperer    by MM Wake
Price: Free! 1340 words. Language: English. Agented by 5minutefiction.co.uk  on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

A short story regarding one special boy and his affinity with nature.
What Beauty    by Mark Beyer
Price: $6.99 USD. 182280 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Minus Orth walks dogs for a living & sculpts for his life. He’s creating a unique sculpture cycle: Mythical Gods in Their Twilight. He has a girlfriend who’s itching to get married. His friend has reaped artistic success that’s both inspiring and a thorn. Then Minus sees Karen Kosek, a '60s & '70s culture critic, who is now a bag lady. Or is she? This is the mystery that Minus hopes to unravel.
Tarot    by Nils Horn
Price: Free! 18970 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Religious.

The Tarot is a 78-sheet set of maps that will be used for psychological purposes, and oracle. The Tarot encourages self-reflection and strengthen your own wisdom.
Escape the Beast    by Colin Cohen
Price: $2.99 USD. 36620 words. Language: English. Published by EIMI Press  on May 12, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias.

Jake Stein is a recent college graduate who finds himself devoured by a horrific yet alluring monster and thus trapped in an expressionistic dystopia, forced to conform to a mindless collective society awash in consumerism and empty sensuality. A society from which he can only escape with the help of a not-so-dead German philosopher named Friedrich Nietzsche.
Mr. November    by Saul Tanpepper
Price: $1.49 USD. 17200 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

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Hoping to finally reconcile the memory of his brother’s horrific death, a man returns to his childhood hometown and the house that has haunted him since that long-ago Halloween night. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Mr. November is at once a ghost story, a coming-of-age tale, and a tribute to a favorite American pasttime.
The Gold Watch    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3100 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on May 12, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.

When Luís Negreiros returns home from the office one evening, he finds a fine watch and chain on a table in his bedroom. The watch isn't his and can't be his young and beautiful wife Clarinha's, either. Whose is it then? Luís Negreiros's suspicions are immediately aroused.
Wendal, His Cat, and the Progress of Man    by V. Campudoni
Price: Free! 2630 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Wendal lives in a very big civilization called Mankind. His job, in this civilization, is to do nothing. One day Wendal's cat disappears and Wendal sets forth in search of her and finds that a great darkness has come to possess Mankind. An illustrated novel.
The Sad Day    by Tim Girard
Price: $0.99 USD. 5480 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

When Cowboy came into their lives bombs fell. Enduring the war two little boys sought refuge in their action figures while desperately trying to avoid the pitfalls of the war.
Long Time Gone    by Richard Sanford
Price: $3.99 USD. 144390 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.

An epic novel of passion, loss, and discovery set in the days that defined a generation. Vernon Case is missing. For Cal Stewart, a disc jockey in Harriet, Mississippi, Vernon is much more than a runaway. He is the only heir of Po Case, the old man who raised Cal like a father. With an oath to bring Vernon home, Cal is caught up in the winds that whip the American firestorm in 1968.