Unwanted Gifts    by Isobel Herring
Price: $1.50 USD. 12060 words. Published by Osier Publishing  on December 20, 2011. .
This is a short story and is only 12,000 words in length. On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. So the song starts, but what if you were given those exact things, and the turtle doves, and the French hens? Each day the list repeats, but do they mean the same gifts from the previous days or more partridges, pear trees, doves and so on.

Story 4: Planting a Pear Tree    by Pu Songling
Price: Free! 1080 words. Published by Broomhandle Books on November 4, 2012. .
This Smashwords edition of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was transcribed from the 1908 Second Edition of a translation by Herbert A. Giles. Broomhandle Books has edited the stories to provide modern punctuation and styling so as to make them more accessible to a reader in this e-book format. In addition, Chinese personal and place names have been rendered into modern pinyin.