Beware of the Chinese Mama: Novel Excerpts About the Chinese Mama-fioso    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $1.99 USD. 7440 words. Language: English. Published by Olo Books on January 3, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » General.
"Why don't you write about your mother, like Amy Tan?" said a friend. I resisted, but my mother crept into my writing. Is she a tiger mother? Not strict enough. Dragon lady? Too disorganized. Girl yelling "Me love you long time?" Uh, try another era. My mother defies stereotype. For my friend, and for anyone else who likes, or fears, or is a Chinese Mama, read and weep over the Chinese mama-fioso.

Wall Street Reckoning    by Georgiann Baldino
Price: $0.99 USD. 3020 words. Language: English. Published on January 1, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire.
Jarvis Winn is a Wall Street power player, who made a fortune by exploiting human nature. Over time, his ego grew much bigger than his conscience. When investors send an emissary to ask tough questions, Jarvis falls apart. It’s up to his assistant, Phoebe, to salvage the situation. In this short fiction, the pressure catches up to a Wall Street deal maker.

Cupcake, Kids and Me    by William White
Price: $4.99 USD. 72230 words. Language: English. Published on January 1, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » General.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Collection of humorous articles from several newspapers.

L'ermafrocite    by Alfonso Mormile
Price: Free! 3660 words. Language: Italian. Published on January 1, 2012. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Parody.
Se le parole sono più potenti delle armi.

Waiting for War    by James Brokaw
Price: $2.99 USD. 39700 words. Language: English. Published by Hedgie Press  on December 30, 2011. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy.
(5.00 from 1 review)
During the fall of 2002, tens of thousands of American troops were stationed in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, waiting for a war nobody was sure would come at all. This is the story of one such soldier.

Cop Show Heaven    by Lawrence Gray
Price: $0.99 USD. 55490 words. Language: English. Published on December 30, 2011. Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire.
A character from a cop show finds himself killed off and heading to cop show Heaven, a leased piece of Hell where dead directors can keep on making movies.

Dispatches from the Belleisle    by Jim Read
Price: $1.99 USD. 19920 words. Language: English. Published on December 28, 2011. Fiction » Humor & comedy » General.
Mary Penn despaired that the love of her life Maury had morphed into Maurice and was alienating the clientele of her deep fried clam restaurant at the ferry landing on Reefer Point. It was a recipe for disaster. These fives stories are rich in wry humour. They are tales of the human heart, compassionate, defiant and sometimes a little on the salty side.

Surrealism    by Rashaad Bell
Price: $0.99 USD. 12010 words. Language: English. Published on December 28, 2011. Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Has there ever been a place that you’ve never been before and once you left it, you weren’t exactly sure how to get back or even if you were really there to begin with? For John Rogers, finding Dairen’s Cove was the easy part, but will he ever be allowed to leave?

Resurrection    by Rashaad Bell
Price: $0.99 USD. 15350 words. Language: English. Published on December 27, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
My name is Victor Hawking. I’m a private investigator in The 4th Tier, a sunken city that was raised by the Man-God Zeus himself. It has been over fifty years since the exodus of Earth. I am too young to remember how it was before, but my Father told me stories of it. When I was a child, they seemed like fairytales to me, but as I grew older, I began to recognize the truth in his words.

Yorkshire Puddings Shouldn't Bounce - The Journal of Phillippa Grubb    by R P Jax
Price: $1.56 USD. 48330 words. Language: English. Published on December 27, 2011. Fiction » Romance » Contemporary.
It’s nearly Christmas, and Phillippa Grubb waits at a freezing bus stop. But instead of catching the Number 12, she boards a roller coaster ride that changes her life forever.