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Vilkas    by Vidas Mykolas
Price: Free! 7760 words. Published on July 10, 2010. .

Vidas Mykolas' parents came to America as World War II refugees from Lithuania. The poems in Vilkas are about prostitutes in St. Petersburg Russia, the Armenian Holocaust and stickball, reviving dead brothers, Caligula eating pearls, mythical wolves in Baltic forests, dumpster diving, White Nights, ravaged family cemeteries, Mexican bands in Oregon, a pig roast, defiling St. Paul, and other poems.
Cabbage, Strudel and Trams (Part I: Czechoslovakia)    by Ivana Hruba
Price: $2.99 USD. 60320 words. Published on December 29, 2010. .

An almost autobiographical and definitely riotous tale of adolescence begun behind the Iron Curtain, continued in a West German refugee camp and coming to a glorious end in the land Down Under.
Cabbage, Strudel and Trams (Part 2: West Germany)    by Ivana Hruba
Price: $1.99 USD. 29250 words. Published on December 29, 2010. .

An almost autobiographical and definitely riotous tale of adolescence begun behind the Iron Curtain, continued in a West German refugee camp and coming to a glorious end in the land Down Under.
An Enlightening Lie About the Lucidity of Bees    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60270 words. Published on January 18, 2011. .

Crofton Eer, a member of a militaristic society set in a canyon that knows only war, seeks an escape from the troubled canyon in which he lives, guided by the embodiment of the lone star that is visible from the canyon depths. His escape takes him on a journey in which he discovers that there are a great many more stars (gods) in the sky, which leads to a search for truth in the valley of life.
A House White With Sorrow: Ballad for Afghanistan    by Jennifer Heath
Price: $1.99 USD. 73340 words. Published on February 23, 2011. .

In 1979, the Soviet Union blundered into Afghanistan, dragging the country into 30 years of war. A House White with Sorrow is a harrowing, elegiac story that conducts the reader on a tour of life during wartime. A tale of two cultures, two families, Afghan and American, and events that spawned the Taliban and shaped today’s tragic events.
Passage From England    by Frank Zajaczkowski
Price: $5.99 USD. 121340 words. Published on April 25, 2011. .

Passage From England is the emotional journey of a man’s search for home that interweaves the adventures and tragedies of his Post-WWII immigrant childhood in America’s 50s and 60s with the experiences of his early retirement in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The Only Candle - Ten True Stories about Afghanistan    by Sayed Isaq Reha
Price: $4.99 USD. 21690 words. Published on July 8, 2011. .

We are all interested in the real Afghanistan. The Only Candle is a timely collection of ten gripping true stories, behind the scenes, that illustrate the miseries and atrocities suffered by a basically peaceful nation, invaded and overtaken by the Russians thirty years ago and still yoked today by a communist regime.
Displaced    by Jeremiah Fastin
Price: Free! 59210 words. Published on July 20, 2011. .

The trial of a warlord in the International Criminal Court sets off a series of events including the assault and flight of a young Congolese woman. The book follows her journey, and the circumstances and interests leading to her flight. The impact of the trial is far reaching and extends from a priest in Uganda, to Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, and to a mining company in the U.S.
Displaced    by Georgiann Baldino
Price: $0.99 USD. 3200 words. Published on July 24, 2011. .

Armed conflict captured international headlines, but most correspondents failed to cover the plight of refugees. What was it like for millions of Bosnians and Croatians who were driven from their homes? How does a family stand up to armed marauders? Baldino's short fiction dramatizes bravery at its finest.
Girt By Sea    by Dave Riley
Price: Free! 3200 words. Published on August 21, 2011. .

Girt by Sea is an amalgam of several street theatre performances reworked as a play for voices (or for radio broadcast). There is nothing especially ambitious about the play as it merely tries to touch on a few notions about the mandatory detention of refugees and package them in a short, sharp piece that quickly gets down to satirical business.