Dumdum (Featured story in the anthology    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 5890 words. Published on June 22, 2010. .
At first "the boy" finds the inbred calves he has to tend a burden and embarrassment. That is until the squatters at a country store try to pass the calves off to a stranger traveling through. "Never name a cow, boy," one of the men say. But it's too late. The boy has named and fallen in love with them, especially the cow he calls Dumdum.

In His Own Hometown    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $2.99 USD. 3480 words. Published on July 27, 2010. .
Earl Sanders, a black man from Washington, DC, is the only one worthy enough to dedicate the new library in his S. Ga. home county. He is the only one to go away and make good. But nobody, black or white, is willing to put him up for the night but a bitter, old black lady who wants to know one thing: why would he come back after he finally got out of these turpentine woods?