Books tagged: allegorical

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My Heartfelt Fight for Rights by Writing Wrongs    by David Bruce
Price: $1.40 USD. 2530 words. Published on January 17, 2009. .

An impassioned personal essay dramatically conveying the leprous-like feeling of my first- hand, daily encounters on being afflicted with the stigma of mental illness. Relates and identifies well with discriminations of all others types in the universal language of wrongful injustices.
The Making of a Prince: book one of the Portance Dynasty - (a parable)    by Bruce Edward Butler
Price: Free! 27110 words. Published on October 26, 2010. .

Life is often harsh, and bad things happen to innocent people. And while a child's abduction might not shock life's seasoned travelers, this case was far beyond the typical crime. Some believe there are forces at work beyond those we can analyze and quantify. They say there is meaning, and purpose in the universe. Because of the things revealed as I followed this story, I'm inclined to agree.
The Freel of Streel: Part One in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 65650 words. Published on November 19, 2010. .

It is always advisable, when you are a conman, to make sure that the town that you're about to try to con does not have a land such as Streel hidden within it. For if it does, you may find yourself trying to escape your mind in an incomprehensible land with a left-handed scribe, being forced to deal with lexically picky ants, Kweengs, and the Freel on your journey through your fears, God and love.
Claustrum: Part Two in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61290 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Claustrum, a superhero with a strange power, the ability to control people with strange, elegiac mixtures of words, seemingly randomly shows up in the city of Dioma, not knowing where he came from or why he is there. The city is then beleaguered by the cruel villain Sine Animus, who is immune to Claustrum's powers over words. Claustrum flees the city and is forced to seek his own personal truth.
The Polyglot's Nightmares: Part X½ in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60080 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Fleeing a war and in search of himself, Ion finds himself residing in a number of strange caves, on the walls of which are written a strange language. He meets a woman who guides him through his state of being a refugee and is troubled by strange dreams that seem to incorporate the existence of the war, his love for the woman he has met and a sense of the divine.
The Quite Possibly Near Death of Hurol Davelrish: Part Three in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61010 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

When an arrogant stuntman, Hurol Davelrish, has a seizure during a stunt, he finds himself in the kingdom of Scalter, a land in which he is king, but which is strangely ruled by a phantasmic man named Viscount Vaunt. Hurol meets a strangely kind friend, Grib, in the malevolent world, who tries to pull him back from the ledge of his pride - what will become of the much-admired stuntman?
The Giant/The Littlest Goblin - Two Short Stories    by Will Kenyon
Price: $0.99 USD. 7380 words. Published on April 26, 2011. .

Will Kenyon presents a small collection of two short stories - The Giant and The Littlest Goblin - science fiction and fantasy tales with unique takes on what it means to love, lead, and - should we need to - find salvation.
The Pit    by Chris Teese
Price: Free! 23010 words. Published on September 2, 2011. .

A young man tries to climb out of a deep pit, stuck there by former friends in his life. He reflects on and revisits his past of how he got there. His rage towards those in his life grows, as he tries to repress the hurt, and his desire to be loved.
The Pit 2: The Boy Who Was Born In A Pit    by Chris Teese
Price: $1.99 USD. 47920 words. Published on October 17, 2011. .

A young boy is born in a pit, with the world above seeming colorless to him. Many come into the pit with him and gaze down at him from above, but he's the only one who appears truly real to himself. On another plane of existence, a teen celebrity named Thomas lives the life only many dream of, yet he feels like an alien to the normal world around him. When the dream comes to an end, what's next?
Shinar 54    by D. Corey Sanders
Price: $3.99 USD. 167180 words. Published on January 21, 2012. .

The final battle looms between utopian perfectionism on the left and brutal ultra-conservatism on the right. Trapped in this war of unyielding and opposing ideologies, mankind teeters on the precipice of annihilation. Two young men heroically step to the brink and stare death in the face.