The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology    by Chamber Four 
Price: Free! 85070 words. Language: English. Published on August 30, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
25 of the best short stories published on the web in 2009/10--chosen by the editors of ChamberFour.com, a website dedicated to making reading more enjoyable and more rewarding. Includes a wide range of stories from great online lit mags. This anthology is DRM-free and free to download. Find a complete table of contents, a PDF version, author bios, interviews, and more at Chamber Four.

Hunter's Moon    by doi
Price: Free! 850 words. Language: English. Published on August 24, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
October, the month of summer gifts and winter threats, kindles many passions. In this small upstate NY valley, where life clings to simplicity, the Hunter's Moon signals the Final Harvest.

Luck of the Count    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 5240 words. Language: English. Published on August 20, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
On a Saturday morning drunk, the Count and his grown son Lucky stumble onto a black woman's shack in the quarters of Cornerville to pilfer for food. When she happens up on them, the Count pulls out his pocket knife and cuts her throat. They go to jail but not for long because the Count's brother King, as usual, gets them out. But the old lady's not done with them. Especially Lucky.

Today, I Told a Lie (a short story)    by Michael Crane
Price: Free! 3310 words. Language: English. Published on August 17, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(4.00 from 5 reviews)
Kody is a kid who really doesn't mind playing by himself at Recess, no matter how odd it may look. One of his friends invites him to play softball with him and some of the older kids, although Kody isn't too thrilled with the idea. He thinks the whole thing will end up being a disaster, and unfortunately, he's right. RATING: PG-13 for some crude and strong language.

Coma Story    by Stephen Manoj Thompson
You set the price! 69240 words. Language: English. Published on August 14, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Alternative history.
"Coma Story" is about the forgotten British Citizens. The narrator, a coma survivor, along with Diego Garcia native, Tarzan, conspires to gain back the British controlled islands without violence. Sprinkled with humor, the story centers on lucid dreaming during the coma and the subsequent plot. "Coma Story" is neither tragedy nor indictment but inspiration.

La nouvelle vie d'Anna : première année    by Pauline Sarélot-Le Floc'h
Price: Free! 42680 words. Language: French. Published on August 10, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Anna Camors, adolescente surdouée peu sociable et à la limite de l'échec scolaire, tente sa dernière chance en intégrant le château de Camilia, un lycée-internat pour élèves à intelligence précoce. Elle va vite s'y faire des amis, des ennemis, et se retrouver plongée au coeur d'une mystérieuse affaire de complot...

Caring for the Elderly    by Janice Daugharty
Price: Free! 2770 words. Language: English. Published on August 9, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Hun is ninety-some-odd years old and at the mercy of a bitter, controlling black woman hired by the family to keep their beloved relative at home till she dies. When Hun's two grand-nieces show up one fall morning for a visit, the caregiver cranks her meanness up a notch. She gets them told! Hun cries...

I Am the Heart    by Adrian Newington
Price: Free! 29310 words. Language: English. Published on August 8, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Religious.
Written in a style of literature common to mystical India. This takes the form of a spiritually uplifting dialog between a 'Troubled Mind' and the 'Heart'. The Mind, (which deals with life rationally and analytically), converses with the 'Heart' after it has come forth from its silent abode out of compassion.

Life In Pause    by K.E. Rodgers
Price: Free! 3720 words. Language: English. Published on July 18, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
The movements of life and the pauses in between are revealed in this short narrative. From the perspective of a single man,neither hero nor villain; he is like us. His story doesn't begin here and even with his last words his story continues beyond the words THE END. But this short blurb is enough for now. In this post-apocalyptic short are the revelations, not of humanity, but of a simple man.