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If You Give a Redneck a Moonpie    by Tom Twain
Price: $0.99 USD. 800 words. Published by New Summerfield Press  on September 16, 2009. .

The world is turned upside down when a good old boy gives another redneck a Moon Pie down at the trailer park. A humorous fable for grown ups.
The Way Home    by Meredith Rae Morgan
Price: $1.10 USD. 81290 words. Published on October 4, 2009. .

"The Way Home" is a love story set in a tiny town in Georgia populated by the kind of good folks who go to church on Sundays and bake pies for sick neighbors. Following her mother's death, Bessie Morgan returns to town, after living away for 30 years, to care for her mentally handicapped older brother. She finds a place in the community and resurrects a love she thought was lost forever.
True Gritz    by J Daniel Reaves
Price: $1.00 USD. 13710 words. Published on May 6, 2010. .

J. Daniel Reaves is a new Southern author who speaks in True Gritz with tongue firmly planted in cheek. This collection of flash fiction and short stories reflects his peculiar view of life growing up in the Southern U.S., with his weird sense of humor, a dose of serious reflection along with some interesting insights into our current culture. Bon Apetit!
Hunting Paradise    by Bob Henneberger
Price: $2.99 USD. 67790 words. Published on August 28, 2010. .

Although Hell can be portrayed as a vivid tangible landscape, in reality it's a mental backdrop. Loss of self respect and worth as well as a loss of purpose can plunge a person into his own hell on many levels. This tale explores the theme of loss and redemption by following two characters separated in time by four generations, each man dealing with a life crisis.
Belle Douleur    by melissa bourgeois
Price: $2.99 USD. 51680 words. Published on March 8, 2011. .

Eva is a pragmatic dreamer, raised by an acquiescent mother and schizophrenic father in a small Cajun town in the heart of the Louisiana bayou. As she prepares to marry before her 21st birthday, Eva begins testing the boundaries of her own reality. Soon she finds herself faced with a loss that will force her to either perish in, or awaken from, a beautifully anguished dance with destiny.
Southern Stories    by J. Paige Straley
Price: Free! 10050 words. Published on May 4, 2011. .

These three stories of the recent South explore wildly different themes. "Stephano" spreads over two generations; an Italian woman who never fitted in south Georgia, and her son. He doesn't fit, either. "Woodrow" wanted to please everyone but what he wanted most was to fly. "Leonard" would have joined the army but he screwed up and the wouldn't let him in. Good thing,too.
Mrs. Hewitt's Barbeque - Seven Eclectic Tales of Food, Humor, and Love    by Anna D.  Allen
Price: $2.99 USD. 29090 words. Published on June 16, 2011. .

Seven eclectic tales, from Ancient Egypt to the Deep South, revolving around those universals-- humor, love, and most of all, food. Mainstream, historical, and humorous fiction.
27 Views of Chapel Hill    by Daniel Wallace
Price: $7.95 USD. 58900 words. Published by Eno Publishers  on August 2, 2011. .

Legions of writers who call this famous Southern college town home create a portrait of the town, capturing its sense of place in essays, short stories, poems, and book excerpts that reflect the social, historic and literary fabric of Chapel Hill. The 27 contributors include Wells Tower, Elizabeth Spencer, Will Blythe, Lawrence Naumoff, Daphne Athas, Nic Brown, William Leuchtenburg, Alan Shapiro.
Personal Saviors    by Wesley Gibson
Price: $9.99 USD. 57160 words. Published by Chelsea Station Editions  on October 21, 2011. .

Sharp, funny, and infused with a dark, sly cleverness, Wesley Gibson's new novel, Personal Saviors, is a marvelous social snapshot of American lives desperate for any sort of salvation.
The Collected Stories, Volume 1    by Worth Tuttle Hedden
Price: $2.99 USD. 47790 words. Published by Black Bay Books  on January 28, 2012. .

These are all stories of race. Written between 1917 and 1947, they are the author's attempts to describe the racial situation in the South in the early part of the 20th Century. Like her award-winning novel, "The Other Room," the stories are sensitive, original, and important.