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Deadline    by David Cox
Price: $3.99 USD. 109880 words. Published on February 21, 2012. .

A conspiracy of circumstances lands rising newspaper reporter Grayson McLeod in the tiny Ozarks hamlet of Indian Lakes Village as editor of the weekly White Horse Mountain Chronicle. He is given one year to rescue the newspaper, which is in danger of closing. But Grayson puts his own life in more immediate danger as he exposes corruption in the county political machine.
27 Views of Asheville: A Mountain Town in Prose & Poetry    by Eno Publishers
Price: $7.45 USD. 49810 words. Published on March 15, 2012. .

27 Views of Asheville is a literary montage. Asheville area writers, write about their hometown in a variety of genres: fiction and nonfiction, poetry. Includes work by Ron Rash, Sharyn McCrumb, Robert Morgan, Charles Frazier, Gail Godwin, Wayne Caldwell, Pam Duncan, Richard Chess, Michael McFee, Holly Iglesias, Glenis Redmond, Thomas Rain Crowe and many others.
Where Robins Sing    by RL Malone
Price: $0.99 USD. 91630 words. Published on April 9, 2012. .

Set in a small southern town in the mid-1970’s to the mid-1980’s, Where Robins Sing is the story of small-town football hero Trevor Daniels and the gorgeous but wild and outspoken Darcy Wood from up north who meet and fall in love their senior year in high school. Their differences are too great, however, dooming their puppy love. But they reunite a decade later, the flames of love reigniting.
The Roaming Mortician    by Idabel Allen
Price: Free! 7800 words. Published on April 14, 2012. .

Washed up and wasted, punk's poster-boy, Slade Mortimer, is on his last leg. Running from everyone and everything he ever knew, Slade descends on Moonsock, a small town in west Tennessee, desperately seeking an inheritance and a chance at a new life.
No New Messages    by Pat Tiffin
Price: $3.00 USD. 100380 words. Published on May 22, 2012. .

Susan Kearney was every thing people wanted in a widow-lovely, blonde and broken. After Sean died, her picture was blasted around the world walking along the endless wall of endless flyers of missing moms, sons, husbands and sisters. But not all marriages are fairy tales and secrets don’t die with the dead. Susan's will take her from madness to redemption in a most unlikely southern town.
Mercy (A Southern Gothic Short Story)    by Rachelle Taylor
Price: $0.99 USD. 5860 words. Published on June 16, 2012. .

In this Southern Gothic short, a sheltered, impoverished teenager seeks to impress a neighbor boy, with destructive results. This story explores poverty, neglect, mental illness, and misogyny in rural Appalachia. This story originally appeared in Printer's Devil Review.
Red Clay and Roses    by S. K. Nicholls
Price: $2.99 USD. 97460 words. Published by ElderberryPressdotcom on March 20, 2013. .

Set in Georgia during a period of civil unrest. The discovery of an old ledger opens a window into life in a time when women were supposed to keep quiet and serve, abortion was illegal, adoption difficult, and racism rampant. Horrible secrets were kept until they festered into mental illness and despair. Can such wounds be healed in the present? Hannah Hamilton, a Nurse, thinks maybe they can.