Books tagged: blue collar

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The Janitor    by Neil Saldana
Price: $1.00 USD. 720 words. Published on April 21, 2010. .

Wake. Breathe. Clean. Eat. Work. Drink. Think. Sink. Die.
The Dashboard Gourmet    by Paul Montague
Price: $0.99 USD. 6710 words. Published on January 6, 2011. .

Written by working folks for working folks, The Dashboard Gourmet is more than just a cookbook. In addition to some tasty recipes, this book provides a lunch pail full of blue collar mealtime advice. Find out how to save money, how to eat healthy and how to take some stress out of what should be the most relaxing hour of the workday. A must read for anyone who works outside for a living.
Siding the House    by Michael Jasper
Price: $0.99 USD. 4750 words. Published on February 24, 2011. .

The often-silenced voices of the various members of a rural family speak out in this story set on a dead-end road in the country, as two white men come to work on their house. "I love summer because I get to ride my bike and run races all day with my best friend Toshera from down the road and I can stay outside until Grandma yells me in for supper."
What Was Left Standing: Four Stories    by Michael Jasper
Price: $2.99 USD. 11640 words. Published on March 18, 2011. .

Four interconnected stories about rough lives, tough choices, and bittersweet loves. Meet Joey and his Pop (who isn't really his father), Ellie and her boyfriend (who will become her grudging husband), and the odd and intriguing people who come and go over the course of an eventful year in small-town North Carolina.
Explosions    by Michael Jasper
Price: $0.99 USD. 8390 words. Published on May 12, 2011. .

"Of course everyone blames the aliens. But they were working right up until ten minutes before the blast, that’s what really bothers me, and that’s what makes me think it was all just bad timing." A near-future SF story about a mother, her daughter, and how they react to the integration of aliens into their neighborhood, school, and job. Part of The Wannoshay Cycle (also an ebook).
Back to the Old Neighborhood    by Michael Jasper
Price: $0.99 USD. 7340 words. Published on May 19, 2011. .

Continuing the story started in "Explosions," Terri makes good on her promise to find out just what caused the fatal explosions at her former place of employment, the brewery. So she goes back home to her old neighborhood, determined to meet one of the alien Wannoshay, to get the whole story. She gets that, and more in this near-future SF story. Part of The Wannoshay Cycle (also an ebook).
The Pusher's List    by Michael Angel
Price: $1.49 USD. 18140 words. Published by Banty Hen Publishing on May 29, 2011. .

Supermarket worker Colin Webb’s day goes from bad to terrifying when he finds a note scrawled in a child’s hand: Pleze Help Us We R Kidnaped. Colin’s co-workers dismiss the note as a joke. Colin’s boss threatens to fire him if he takes any action. But Colin knows that unless he can figure out who the kidnapper is, any chance of rescuing the victims will vanish without a trace.
Old Friend    by Paul Poulsen
Price: $0.99 USD. 98450 words. Published on October 16, 2011. .

Following a personal tragedy, homebuilder Marvin “Crow” Crowley receives an invitation to small town North Dakota where he’ll undertake his largest construction project yet. But when a local girl vanishes, he feels responsible to investigate her disappearance. With co-worker Jennings Gabriel at his side, Crow uncovers a web of lies that will devastate the small town.
Annelid - Fishing the Moons of Jupiter    by Jason Rizos
Price: $0.99 USD. 5120 words. Published on December 6, 2011. .

An intrepid band of former deep-sea fishermen become astronauts in order to solve the world's energy crisis. A journey to Jupiter's moon, Calisto, turns up an extraterrestrial creature with a metabolic body temperature in the thousands of degrees--capturing it won't be easy. 6500 words
Jiggle Juice and Cleavage    by Daniel Eness
Price: $1.99 USD. 5000 words. Published on January 26, 2012. .

A space elevator technician finds himself caught between a world he doesn't understand and a world he doesn't want to understand when he takes on an emergency repair job as he scales the ancient, collapsing old "beanpole" that connects to a freight satellite in the Clarke Belt. Jiggle Juice and Cleavage is a short story of the future past.