The Silver Lining    by Janet Nitsick
Price: Free! 1280 words. Language: English. Published on February 17, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
(5.00 from 5 reviews)
This story received 10th place in the 79th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition in the mainstream/literary short story category. It is a bitter-sweet story of an elderly woman who remembers one afternoon with her daughter. People who enjoy Hans Christian Anderson's work, such as "The Steadfast Tin Soldier and "The Little Match Girl," will love this touching story.

Königliche Republik    by Annemarie Nikolaus 
Price: $4.99 USD. 100070 words. Language: German. Published on March 5, 2012. Fiction » Historical » Renaissance.
(5.00 from 4 reviews)
1647: Die Patriziertochter Mirella Scandore ist mit einem Granden Spaniens verlobt, als sich Neapel gegen die spanische Krone erhebt und den Herzog von Lothringen zum seinem Dogen erwählt. Mirella verliebt sich in sein Mündel Alexandre. Ihr Bruder Dario aber verrät die Republik; schweren Herzens deckt sie ihn. Doch dann plant er ein Attentat gegen den Dogen, bei dem auch Alexandre getötet würde

Behold, the Warrior's Pride    by Mark Jacobs
Price: Free! 1830 words. Language: English. Published on February 5, 2011. Fiction » Literature » War.
(5.00 from 4 reviews)
The king’s most loyal warrior has mercifully survived thirty-six years of brutal service. To reward him for his unyielding dedication, the grateful monarch grants him permanent leave, a parcel of farmland and prized livestock. Freed from his duties, he struggles within his own troubled soul to allow himself final peace. A Flash fiction (1000 word) short story.

Winter's Captive    by June Bourgo
Price: $7.95 USD. 64130 words. Language: English. Published by Asteroid Publishing  on November 9, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(5.00 from 3 reviews)
Recently separated from a cheating husband, Georgia leaves her home to spend a month with a childhood friend in Yukon Territory. Her pleasant stay takes an abrupt turn when she is impulsively kidnapped by two bank robbers. This is a story of one woman’s incredible survival against all odds in the Canadian northern wilderness, and her ensuing emotional and spiritual journey towards empowerment.

Second Chances    by Maria Savva
Price: $2.99 USD. 103800 words. Language: English. Published on September 18, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(5.00 from 3 reviews)
James has a top job, dream house, two healthy children, and a wife who always stands by him. These things, James can rely on, until one day, when everything changes, and he realises that he has spent so long looking towards the future, that he has neglected the present. Pamela has taken their two children and left him, leaving nothing but a brief note. How far will James go to save his marriage?

Summerland    by Geoffrey Kruse-Safford
Price: Free! 1930 words. Language: English. Published on February 15, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Saying goodbye is never easy. Summerland is the place Nick gets one last look at the ones he loves, getting a surprising sign that the time to go has come.

Deadline    by David Cox
Price: $3.99 USD. 109880 words. Language: English. Published on February 21, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
A conspiracy of circumstances lands rising newspaper reporter Grayson McLeod in the tiny Ozarks hamlet of Indian Lakes Village as editor of the weekly White Horse Mountain Chronicle. He is given one year to rescue the newspaper, which is in danger of closing. But Grayson puts his own life in more immediate danger as he exposes corruption in the county political machine.

Xanadu Collision    by Nicholas Sheffield
Price: $0.99 USD. 9640 words. Language: English. Published on September 12, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Sierra is charged with managing the closure of a cryogenics center - a place where dead people are suspended in the hope that a future civilization will revive them. Only Sierra is part of that future civilization, and technology hasn't progressed enough. She goes about her grim task with impassiveness until she stumbles across an intriguing file, and makes the fatal mistake of reading it.

Hear, O    by Jeffra Hays
Price: $0.99 USD. 4880 words. Language: English. Published on December 2, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Religious.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
In paraphrase of famous lines: And the old man lived with no other thought/ Than to love and be loved by Thee.

Brooklyn Bites: A Pickle & Carrot Cake    by Scott Stabile
Price: $0.99 USD. 5120 words. Language: English. Published on April 1, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
The fifth and sixth stories in the Brooklyn Bites series, A Pickle & Carrot Cake look at the discomfort often caused by speaking the truth. In A Pickle, a woman pressures a man to reveal more about himself, but she is ultimately unable to handle what he reveals. In Carrot Cake, a woman prepares a Lebanese feast for her family and cannot begin to predict the uncomfortable reaction she elicits.