Simple Life    by Jose Rodriguez
Price: Free! 5350 words. Language: English. Published on May 25, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
Unhappiness can be self inflicted when we fail to appreciate what we have or get sidetracked by worries that are not worth our time. In this short story, a young boy who is poor but doesn't know it, who is happy with his simple life, has that life tarnished by worries that, while look to him insurmountable, are small peanuts. Death and a missing love one reset the boy's priorities in life.

20 Cent    by Lika Yorden
Price: Free! 820 words. Language: German. Published on May 25, 2012. Fiction » Drama » European.
Kostenlose Kurzgeschichte Vera begegnet einem Mann, der Passanten wegen 20 Cent anbettelt. Sie beobachtet ihn, ihre Gedanken entwickeln sich mehr und mehr zu sinnlichen Fantasien.

Another Chance    by Faydra D. Fields
Price: $0.99 USD. 11530 words. Language: English. Published by SolaPress  on May 23, 2012. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas.
Robert "Bobby" Thennel is the youngest of four brothers. While his three brothers and father are police officers, Bobby has become more familiar with law enforcement from the other end of the spectrum. His drinking, drugging and thieving always puts him in contention with the rest of the family, especially his third brother, Gavin.

Origami    by Wando Wande
You set the price! 990 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(4.00 from 1 review)
What do you do when your diary is filled with tales of heartbreak? Tear it up to make origami, of course! A short story.

The Story of 25 Stories    by Eric Cline
Price: $0.99 USD. 5510 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Mystery & detective » General.
STANLEY PLATT HAS BEEN THROWN TO HIS DEATH. It will take a few seconds to drop 25 stories to hard pavement. But in those few seconds, he will LIVE. And he will SOLVE HIS OWN MURDER! A short story of murder, commerce, and art by Eric "Cruel" Cline, whose work has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

The lily    by Aglaia Bouma
Price: Free! 1050 words. Language: English. Published on May 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(4.00 from 1 review)
After a car accident a woman visits her seriously injured daughter in hospital.

De lelie    by Aglaia Bouma
Price: Free! 1070 words. Language: Dutch. Published on May 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
Na een verkeersongeval bezoekt een vrouw haar zwaargewonde dochter in het ziekenhuis.

Nathan, the Buttercups are Blooming    by Linda Swift 
Price: $0.99 USD. 9900 words. Language: English. Published by Publishing by Rebecca J. Vickery  on May 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
Short Story Speculative Fiction ~ Nathan Bradford is a prosperous man who always provided well for his wife Esther and their eight children. Now blind with glaucoma, he listens with helpless fury as his beloved wife lies dying while his children respond in their individual ways to the evolving crisis they all feel helpless to prevent. Will Nathan change the seemingly inevitable course of events?

Dismantle    by Michael McDonald
Price: Free! 2650 words. Language: English. Published on May 15, 2012. Fiction » Themes & motifs » Political.
A week is a long time in politics. In diary format, one political candidate chronicles his drastic change of fortune as he goes from the potential Prime Minister to a pariah within his own party.

Wrongway Dave    by Jose Rodriguez
Price: Free! 2960 words. Language: English. Published on May 13, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
(4.00 from 1 review)
Dave is paralyzed by terror every time he jumps out of an airplane. Despite a string of bad jumps that make Frank, his instructor, ground him out of concern for his life, Dave finds ways to keep on trying to get that one turning point jump that will free him from his terror and botched performances. Skydiving is unforgiving of errors, and Dave makes plenty of those.