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Cause & Effect    by Heather Marie Adkins
Price: $0.99 USD. 35700 words. Language: English. Published by CyberWitch Press  on September 24, 2011. Fiction » Drama » American.

Martin’s existence has centered on his wife, Sophie, for thirteen years. Their tumultuous, explosive relationship ends in adultery and her abrupt death, leaving Martin to pick up the pieces of the life she built for them – and a daughter he barely knows. With the touching insights of his little girl and memories of Sophie to keep him going, Martin navigates the year after her death.
The Tumours Made Me Interesting    by Matthew Revert
Price: $2.99 USD. 61240 words. Language: English. Published by LegumeMan Books  on September 24, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Hello, my name is Bruce Miles and my life means nothing to no one. I was the sort of person you didn’t notice. I wasn’t worth noticing. Just a talentless nobody destined to die alone and unremembered. Then I was diagnosed with terminal cancer and everything turned around. You see, it turns out I have a gift for illness...
All Things Considered    by Patricia A. Stone
Price: $5.99 USD. 90870 words. Language: English. Published on September 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

In All Things Considered, we observe Margaret Lovell at crucial stages in her life, beginning at 10 when she imagines that Marilyn Monroe is her real mother. We observe her as a teen when she develops a rebellious, risk-taking nature and we follow her university and drug-use years and, in retirement years, her eventual reconciliation with her life experience.
Three Scars - J.D. Cutler and Michael Angel    by Michael Angel
Price: $1.49 USD. 16790 words. Language: English. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on September 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Scars can be markers. Markers of various kinds of sins that go before a fall. Let me tell you about three of my markers. Pride left the first mark. Envy the next. Vanity the deepest one. In the process of getting those scars, I’d tasted failure. I’d eaten crow. Between the two, I’d take the crow, which at least tastes like chicken. I can’t say that I mind.
Lucky Reuben's Seasons in Hell    by Steven Quidam
Price: $10.00 USD. 97930 words. Language: English. Published on September 23, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

A yarn of an Amish reared lad into Vietnam consisting of scenes charming and disarming and a plenitude of silly observations and jokes. Any truths or intelligences are accidental.
In Grief Prostrate; Clobbered by Joy    by Benjamin Chambers
Price: $2.99 USD. 16660 words. Language: English. Published on September 22, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Meet Roy, a widower visiting his wife's family for a summer holiday with his young daughter. Imagine his confusion: he finds his wife's sister Miranda suddenly alluring; discovers a nefarious plot by Miranda's preppy boyfriend to evict her and her mother from their home by the ocean; and collides with pugilistic European tourists. A funny, sad, lushly-written novella that defies description.
Five Points Akropolis    by S. Dorman
Price: $3.99 USD. 89880 words. Language: English. Published on September 22, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

An alternate future? An insecure past? Another present made of dense woodlands and waterways? Or of streets and buildings and crowds? Are its populations living beside one another in a welter of frequencies or wavelengths not generally experienced in Place and Time? What is FIVE POINTS AKROPOLIS? Willie the grave-digger would like to know. But "the girl" who seems somehow responsible isn't saying.
Hunters and Gamblers    by Dark Sky Books
Price: $4.99 USD. 19580 words. Language: English. Published on September 21, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Ryan Ridge's debut collection of short fiction, published by Dark Sky Books.
Big Town: A Novel of Africville    by Stephens Gerard Malone
Price: $0.99 USD. 50900 words. Language: English. Published on September 20, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Told through the eyes of children in 1963, Big Town explores a the life of a black community struggling with poverty and illiteracy. “Africville” was considered to be a modern-day ghetto. But it was a home to almost 400 people for over 150 years. To this day, its demise haunts Canada as a notorious cases of government sanctioned racial discrimination. This is its story, told from the inside.
Saving the World    by R. Eric Swanepoel
Price: $4.69 USD. 131220 words. Language: English. Published on September 19, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

(5.00 from 2 reviews)
'Business as Unusual' meets 'The World According to Garp' and 'Adrian Mole' meets 'No Logo' as 'Saving the World' charts the progress of Nathaniel Papulous from a dysfunctional childhood in English suburbia to the frontlines of the battle against the global tyranny of the transnational corporations.