Beginnings    by Hayley Hardman
Price: Free! 1570 words. Language: British English. Published on May 16, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Educational.
A fictional lecture on the beginnings of story telling.

Trade (A Novelette)    by Lochlan Bloom
You set the price! 15940 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Trade is set in a near contemporary world where technology controls the sexual partners we choose. The narrator, a nihilistic employee at a Berlin-based social network, chronicles the early days of the new sexual economy and the terrible price he has to pay as his girlfriend, Lis, is propelled to stardom. What would you do in a world where your sexual partners were chosen for you?

鹿鼎记    by ronghua xiang
You set the price! 8010 words. Language: Chinese (simplified). Published on May 14, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Alternative history.
《鹿鼎记》作为金庸的封笔之作，一直被众人奉为武侠小说经典中的经典，由《鹿鼎记》原著改编的影视剧作更是影响了几代金庸迷。 《鹿鼎记》讲述了出身于妓院的少年韦小宝，凭一时之勇搭救了落难的江湖好汉茅十八，又阴差阳错地假冒小太监，成为少年康熙驾前第一红人；他既是天地会总舵主的关门弟子，被寄予反清复明重任；他又艳福齐天，娶得七个如花似玉的夫人；他不肯反清，只因当今皇上是好朋友小玄子；他不肯剿灭天地会，只因不愿坏了江湖义气；他不学无术，却是天下第一好运的小无赖；他建功无数，却懂得功成身退。本书更似一部历史小说的神来之笔。 金庸（1924年2月6日－），香港“大紫荆勋贤”。原名查良镛，当代著名作家、新闻学家、企业家、社会活动家，《香港基本法》主要起草人之一。金庸是新派武侠小说最杰出的代表作家，被普遍誉为武侠小说作家的“泰山北斗”，更有金迷们尊称其为“金大侠”或“查大侠”

El Príncipe Azul    by Enza Scalici
Price: Free! 1410 words. Language: Spanish. Published by The Little  French on May 13, 2013. Fiction » Anthologies » General.
La pequeña historia de un sueño, el cual era más que un deseo, convertido en realidad cuando la esperanza brote entre el abatimiento y la desolación.

Thirteen Sketches    by Ulf Wolf
Price: Free! 7340 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Visionary & metaphysical.
Some call them short stories, others call them short short stories (short shorts for short). Some even call them prose poems, and I guess that in some ways they might be. I call them sketches, for that’s how I see them: an impression or mental view sketched out for joy or remembrance. This collection includes thirteen sketches about everything from air to a Bristlecone Buddha.

The Tin of Secrets    by Steve Wilson
Price: Free! 3360 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
Old Arthur is a cleaner at Sydney’s Central Railway Station. One of those invisible people who carries out the thankless jobs that make our lives easier. He keeps to himself and no one can remember the last time he had a sickie. In fact no one knows much about Arthur at all and that’s just the way he likes it. But that’s about to change when his dark past finally catches up with him.

Touch    by Ulf Wolf
Price: Free! 4420 words. Language: English. Published on May 11, 2013. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.
It certainly seems that this physical universe or ours is here to stay. But what if you don’t like it here anymore? What if you want to get out? And what’s the game here, anyway? Is there a game? Well, yes, there is.

The Fifth Rider: New Damascus    by A Park
Price: Free! 16910 words. Language: English. Published on May 6, 2013. Fiction » Horror » Occult.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
New Damascus was a place of desert and mountain. It was a town suffering from sickness, where trouble always stopped by to holiday. It was the preacher who finally took matters into his own hands, praying for salvation. Salvation didn't come. Something else did.

Insomnia (A Poem)    by Jay Nichols
Price: Free! 470 words. Language: English. Published on May 5, 2013. Fiction » Poetry » Biography.
(5.00 from 1 review)
This isn't a book. It's a poem - a free one. I hope you enjoy.

Decadence (english version)    by Rosario Volpi
Price: Free! 2370 words. Language: English. Published on May 4, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Urban.
Late at night or at dawn, when dreams are shattered, there is someone who opens his eyes and he restless moves his sweaty head in the pillow. It is as if a sword hurt him by treachery and blood gets coagulating immediately, leaving a permanent scar in the mind of the man for all the days to come. “For a week I did not dream anymore, but every holy morning just opening my eyes I'm relive the