Homer's Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose    by David Bruce
Price: $2.00 USD. 69710 words. Language: English. Published on September 9, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
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This is a retelling of Homer's "Odyssey" in novel form. After leaving Troy, Odyssey spent ten years wandering around the Mediterranean. When he finally returned home to the island of Ithaca, he discovered many suitors trying to marry his wife because they thought that he was dead. Odysseus must reestablish himself as king of Ithaca or be a beggar for the rest of his life.

The Key    by Alexander Lurikov
Price: $0.99 USD. 3640 words. Language: English. Published by Gray Cadence Publishing House  on September 9, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
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A man accidentally discovers that the key to his apartment opens his neighbor’s apartment as well. Unable to resist the temptation, he starts spending time in his neighbor’s apartment while she is away. He eats her food, reads her books, and takes naps on her sofa. But as his behavior becomes increasingly inappropriate, the neighbor becomes suspicious, until at last a confrontation is unavoidable.

sPARKLE & bLINK 2.8    by sparkle and blink
Price: $3.99 USD. 10860 words. Language: English. Published on September 9, 2011. Fiction » Poetry » American poetry.
sPARKLE & bLINK is published in conjunction with the monthly submission-based reading series Quiet Lightning, which takes place in San Francisco and is hosted by Evan Karp. This is the eighth issue of volume 2, as performed on September 5 2011 at The Conservatory of Flowers [the second installment of The Greenhouse Effect]. For more information: http://wp.me/p1tiGa-vD.

Kane    by Stephen Jennings
Price: $2.95 USD. 81060 words. Language: English. Published on September 9, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
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Kane is the story of rural poverty, the power and the impotence of family, the premium our society places on beauty, the sadness that comes with the realization the economic ladder is more difficult to climb than we imagined and how far we'll go to escape. Yet it is also the story of patience and perseverance, the time we need to embrace, understanding, truth and the importance of family.

On the Brink... Volume 1    by Spectacle Publishing Media Group, LLC
Price: $2.99 USD. 60630 words. Language: English. Published by Spectacle Publishing Media Group, LLC  on September 8, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Spectacle Publishing Media Group is proud to present this volume of short stories from our inaugural short fiction contest. Many thanks to our contributing authors!

BLACK ROBE The Renegade Missionary    by Charles Rayner Kelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 144580 words. Language: English. Published on September 8, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
A Jesuit missionary living among the American Indians in the 1840's is declared a traitor and an apostate for committing the unpardonable offense of siding with the tribes. Fr. Stephen Morgan is caught between the tribespeople he has come to love and the expanding American nation.

THE HOWLS OF WOLF CREEK Legends, Tales and Other Stories    by Charles Rayner Kelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 73720 words. Language: English. Published on September 8, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Wolf Creek is a quiet, scenic town in southern Oregon about one hundred miles north of the California border. It's nestled amidst forested mountains with about six hundred people living in a five mile radius.

Kyselak was Here    by Michael Robin
Price: $5.99 USD. 52850 words. Language: English. Published by Amolibros  on September 8, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Kyselak Was Here is a fictional account of his life as it might have been, following its youthful hero on his adventures, amorous and otherwise, from Vienna to the four corners of the Empire: the Vienna Woods, Bohemia, Slovenia, Transylvania.

Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child    by Mike Mitchell
Price: $6.99 USD. 65330 words. Language: English. Published by Amolibros  on September 8, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child is a story of obsessive passion set in Podolia, now part of the Ukraine but in the nineteenth century a backward, multi-racial corner of Europe where the Russian and Habsburg empires met.

Hieronymus Bosch's American Landscape    by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 3710 words. Language: English. Published on September 8, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
Bethany Glaspell approached the first-ever meeting with Great-uncle Vern, a man who returned from the jungles of Vietnam with a Hmong bride and warped personality, much as a cat burglar might plan his next heist, telling no one, neither friend nor family, her intentions.