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.

The Previous Life of Julian Kelly    by Alessandro Cusimano
Price: $4.99 USD. 22740 words. Language: English. Published by Green King Press  on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
An unconventional path, funny and desperate, populated by staring puppets and strange creatures whose life unfolds between sarcasm and resentful emotion. Painful and surreal, the events reflect on anxiety, crush conventions and illusions, irreverent, proclaiming, with a barrage of words, life is, by its nature, a scandal.

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.

Turning a Blind Eye to the Sun    by Christine Dias
Price: $1.99 USD. 48620 words. Language: English. Published on May 20, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
The stories of an Indian businessman and a European woman interlink in unlikely circumstances in the South of France. The woman, disillusioned with her Western lifestyle, is a product of 21st century self-absorption. The man has an Eastern ability to see life as a selfless flow yet is seduced by his London lifestyle. Death and an attempt to reconcile the past with their future bring them together.

Stone Octopus    by Ross Doughty
Price: $2.99 USD. 95070 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
Joe Marlow's compulsive quest of self discovery goes from New Zealand to Spain, the US and back to NZ. Hine Wairau is tragically dislocated in an alien world, shrouded in her Maori past, and resentful of her Pakeha present. She makes her own painful odyssey to France in search of security and happiness. Solomon Castile and his spanish family must face the consequences of his ambition and passion.

Days of Fancy    by Hugo La Rosa
Price: $1.99 USD. 8930 words. Language: English. Published on May 16, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Drama.
Fiction is intrinsically attached to life as a spider’s web is attached to the top corner of a threshold of a house; that is probably a superficial connectivity, a light holding, but also real and true. This work focuses on the life and drama of William Grander, the protagonist, and his family: the way they saw life, sin and virtue, and the stand they take to protect their views .

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.