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	At the Diner	by Neil Plakcy June 07, 2010	$0.99	2467 words	Sample 30%
	A young man attempts to reconnect with his estranged father over meals at a small-town diner. Can a love of food overcome the pain of a dad and son pulled apart?
	Ogólna teoria jesieni [General theory of autumn]	by Tomasz Sobieraj June 07, 2010	Free!	18905 words	Read a sample
	Twenty short stories balancing between realism, weird realism and dreamy atmosphere, known from Kafka and Schulz; amazing, poetic book, where beauty of darkness is mixed with the beauty of lightness; it's not a Kafka's plaint - it's a celebration, it's a lust, it's a mystery.
	Colorado Knox	by Mungo McClure June 06, 2010	$4.99	45208 words	Sample 10%
	When her voyeur site is linked to a terrorist threat on the West, Marlene Knox - internet performer and sister of a Hells Angels main man - goes on the run from both the DEA and the FBI. Her flight takes her into the deepest night of a Colorado winter, where notions of law enforcement fade to the simple idea of Survival.
	The Mormon	by Jon Thorpe June 05, 2010	Free!	8605 words	Read a sample
	Three members of a secret organization sit in a Calcutta bar and discuss an ancient codex they have recently purloined from a Tibetan monastery. They know that the key to unlocking the knowledge contained within the codex is a young Mormon who has been spirited away to the Rason-Marinetti Oil Platform to analyze the validity of what just might be Siberian seer stones.
	BRAKENSTROOM	by Jacob Singer June 05, 2010	$8.00	73929 words	Sample 10%
	When Jewish families left their shtetls in Europe, most went to America, but a large number were also lured to South Africa by gold and diamonds. Brakenstroom is a collection of short stories about one of these families who settled in the fictional town of Barkenstroom. These are stories that the author heard from his parents and their friends. All are based on truth.
	To Come Back So Far From Nowhere In Particular	by Jon Thorpe June 05, 2010	Free!	1744 words	Read a sample
	Jared Petrarch, a fine young man and an upstanding Christian, dies on the way home from a church dance. This story takes a look at the subtle but profound effects his existence has had on the lives of others.
	The Sister City Initiative	by Jon Thorpe June 04, 2010	Free!	4812 words	Read a sample
	As a man's marriage begins to crumble he becomes increasingly obsessed with the passage of the Sister City Initiative.
	幻想掌編集　雨に散る	by Syuppandokoro Tenteru June 04, 2010	$3.99	1422 words
	希代の物語職人「嵐寺ブンコ」と、雄麗な作風で知られるイラストレーター「みや」が織りなす、幻想の世界。 切り口の鋭い掌編10作で編まれた、珠玉の小説作品集。 恐怖、美、戦慄、悲哀そして希望を、堪能していただけます。 短編小説全10話収録。
	The Album	by Sandra White June 04, 2010	$4.95	70057 words	Sample 20%
	After Catherine Rowan Montgomery's husband dies, her ability to care for herself is lessened by illness. She begins to live as a victim of elder abuse at the hand of her cruel daughter-in-law. She tells no one of the mistreatment she endures, and struggles alone with only an old photo album to comfort her.
	Never, Ever, Bring This Up Again	by Jon Thorpe June 04, 2010	Free!	2916 words	Read a sample
	The American-owned, Liberian-incorporated SCOVAL Corporation attempts to negotiate the release of its employees from their North Korean kidnappers after a deal regarding the repurposing of the Rason-Marinetti Oil Platform goes bad.
	Chips & Gravey: A Ghostly Love Story	by William Gough June 04, 2010	$5.99	63224 words	Sample 6%
	One of William Gough's most popular novels, this remarkably funny and poetic book brings wildly different lives and worlds together for the strangest of miracles on one timeless and warped Christmas. Part of 'The Terra Nova Quartet'// "A magical tale of love, told with the vivid poetry of a wise, curious and passionate storyteller." Atom Egoyan.
	Wherever You May Be Searching	by Wes Patterson June 03, 2010	$4.99	132119 words	Sample 50%
	“Wherever You May Be Searching” is a novel about our time (1960’s – 2002) as seen through the eyes of a man who refuses to conform or to play by the rules. He observes the foibles and triumphs of human life, and yet he never loses his enthusiasm, fun loving and innocent spontaneity for whatever absurd event he encounters on a daily basis.
	Beyond Redemption - The Forbidden	by Jax Alexander June 03, 2010	You set the price!	155729 words	Sample 50%
	Welcome to Harrow Falls, the destination for a battered angel fleeing Heaven, a detective with an unwanted destiny, a father willing to sacrifice him to satisfy a crazy prophet, a coroner with a bad case of confusion, corpses that bleed milk and honey, two young women who are centuries old, a band of women with an unhealthy appetite for men, and a lot of angels in world-ending trouble.
	Embrace the Rain: A Novel	by Michael Holloway Perronne June 02, 2010	$4.95	41265 words	Sample 20%
	Critically acclaimed novelist and Mississippi native, Michael Holloway Perronne explores how a forbidden teen romance and the violent act of a desperate boy forever binds a community in post-Katrina coastal Mississippi.
	A Girl Named X.	by Jon Thorpe June 02, 2010	Free!	45751 words	Read a sample
	X. is an orphan. She believes her father was killed in combat. Her brilliant mother committed suicide. X. discovers she can phase in and out of reality. She watches time fold in on itself. She passes through multiple dimensions. She seeks refuge in the City of Memory. She discovers a single path. She befriends a talking cat. She receives a message from her dead father and journeys to find him.
	The Trial of Frankenstein	by Walt Edinger June 02, 2010	$3.99	63866 words	Sample 50%
	The reader sits in the jury box and is asked to examine the question: Should there be limits to scientific inquiry? Whether it is cloning, genetic research or crossing species to create new life, who decides whether we should go down this path? In a modern context, the author puts Shelly's Frankenstein on trial. But this is also a trial of Science itself.
	Décades	by Anne de Gandt May 30, 2010	$2.99	11373 words	Sample 20%
	Après le chaos de la douleur, le désir amoureux, ses attentes, ses exaltations, ses déceptions. Rencontre entre deux femmes qui va bouleverser leur existence et donner une force insoupçonnée à chacune d’elles.
	Spiritual Apathy	by Edward St Amant May 29, 2010	$5.99	67036 words	Sample 10%
	Have you ever wondered if there is an alternative explanation for our mental pathologies? Szasz’s theory brought to life in novel form
	Last of the Zacharys, A Novel with Songs	by Morty Shallman May 28, 2010	$9.99	134636 words	Sample 10%
	A groundbreaking multi-media ebook with links to 16 original songs for free streaming and/or purchase on the web. Follow the comic, tragic and always unforgettable adventures of Jay Allen Zachary, the sole heir of a wealthy and mysterious midwestern clan, who will do anything to make it in music, even if it means "he" must become a "she."
	Perception — a novel	by Dan Catalano May 28, 2010	$1.99	126582 words	Sample 50%
	Hugh Lambert is a man of many problems: problems with professors, problems with his punk rock housemates and, most of all, problems with women. A parapsychology student in the Reagan era, Hugh has no job prospects and only one friend—Abby Stoltz, a profane and ever-indignant artist. But then, late one night, Hugh accepts a Tarot reading from a beautiful stranger, and everything begins to change.
	Notes from an Isolated Man	by Craig Cain May 27, 2010	$0.99	11297 words	Sample 20%
	A philosophical breakdown about an observer. A man that views life but does not partake of it. After much debate, he decides to leave his fence of observation and enjoy the world, resulting in dire consequences.
	An Exciting New Career in Medicine	by Michelle Richmond May 26, 2010	$1.99	4995 words	Sample 18%
	A woman grieving over her sister's death finds her surprising and unconventional calling as a "manual medical caregiver" in this erotic story of love, lust, and medicine. Originally published in Playboy.
	The Seventh Compass Point of Death	by Richard Sanders May 26, 2010	$2.99	36170 words	Sample 10%
	Here’s bad day: Guy sets out to rob a bank but ends up pulling a carjacking, and when he’s arrested a body is found in the trunk. The victim is a Sunni community leader, and why was he killed? Who killed him? The search for answers takes me into a homegrown Islamic terror underground, into plots, counterplots, deceptions and love affairs, all leading to an attack on a major NYC landmark.
	In The Light Of Memory	by Leonardo Lunanero May 25, 2010	You set the price!	18375 words	Sample 100%
	A set of framed tales in the fabulist style, influenced by authors such as Calvino and Borges and antique narrative traditions. A deathless wanderer helps a boy to the end of his story.
	On The Gathering Storm	by Jason McIntyre May 25, 2010	$2.99	63155 words	Sample 25%
	Years after falling down a dirt shaft as a little girl, 29-year old Hannah Garretty is snatched from her bohemian life on the island and vanishes into a forest lair where unspeakable things have happened. Clinging to her raw memories, she tries to maintain hope and sanity, biding her time with a desperate need to survive.
	Maud's House	by William Gough May 25, 2010	$5.99	44578 words	Sample 6%
	Praise For "Maud's House": "Gough’s writing is...poignant, spare, with the strength and subtlety of a fine woodcut..." E. Annie Proulx ...it’s clear that the richness of language as it is spoken in Newfoundland is in Gough’s literary blood.” Michael Harris, The Globe and Mail
	A Summer Wedding	by Jesse Greever May 25, 2010	$0.99	1035 words	Sample 25%
	In the Summer of Love, one young man discovers both love and heartbreak. Flash fiction from our Nibs literary short story line.
	The Tunge Pit	by Kevin Kato May 24, 2010	$2.95	116391 words	Sample 20%
	'The Tunge Pit is an American tapestry with a common dark thread. It winds and twists revealing a hidden landscape of fear, paranoia, helplessness and raw emotion. It will show you things you didn't want to look at, yet you will not put it down.' ~~ Ron S. - New York City
	Gina, Found Again - Part 4	by Lawrence Bridges May 18, 2010	$0.99	9591 words	Sample 50%
	Lawrence Bridges' eBook-only "movie novella" continues as Gina struggles with the contents of Barry's latest note to her. Meanwhile, Barry is the subject of character assassination by a blog trying to thwart his attempts to protect the region causing LA's latest drought. Family squabbles are boiling over as sister Claire's political ambitions starts to get in the way of Gina's post-school plans.
	Disappearances	by Luke Bergeron May 18, 2010	$2.99	68718 words	Sample 30%
	Disappearances tells the story of a young man mentally disconnected. Early one morning he’s awoken from a restless sleep by a plane crash outside his apartment window. Rushing down to the scene, the young man is unable to find anyone – no people, no rescue workers, no survivors. He is alone. Everyone he loves, everyone else on the planet as far as he knows, has disappeared.
	Henry's Nursing Notes	by Ian Martin May 16, 2010	$0.99	18298 words	Sample 25%
	Ian Martin spent three years as a hospital orderly and kept a ward diary chronicling the sights, sounds and smells that assailed him. Based on this record, "Henry Fuckit's Nursing Notes" is an unflinching account of nursing the sick and dying. Looking through the eyes of his disreputable hero, Martin uses a brutal blend of cynicism and dark humour to describe a world of suffering and pathos.
	Of Sound And Silence	by Casey Dyson May 16, 2010	$0.99	1201 words	Sample 30%
	Sometimes, what is not communicated between two people can be louder than what is.
	The Bridge of Dreams and Predators: Two Short Novels	by Alex Shishin May 15, 2010	Free!	26398 words	Read a sample
	In The Bridge of Dreams, set in Osaka, the homeless and disabled Motoshima Saburo, 58, fights a moral battle with Ken, a young “dating club” scout, who has used The Waif, a pill-popping 17-year-old runaway, for a haywire robbery. In Predators, set in Paris, Rick and Yolanda discover their wealthy and acne-ravaged home stay guest, Masami Ogawa, is a thief. And worse.
	Heads	by Eddie Stack May 13, 2010	$2.99	61307 words	Sample 25%
	A zany, humourous story, Heads relates the adventures of Jazz Doherty, an Irish artist who makes a sacrilegious blunder while painting murals at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Berkeley, California. The parish priest, Fr. Ned Tobin, declares jihad on him and Doherty goes on the run. His work gathers a cult following while he house-sits for a jailed dope dealer. Then he finds a stash of cash...
	The Box	by H. Lovelyn Bettison May 13, 2010	$2.99	51989 words	Sample 25%
	What’s in the box? Indy would sure like to know. When Tom offers Indy two thousand dollars to transport a mysterious box across the country, she reluctantly agrees to do it. She doesn’t really need the money, but could use some adventure in her life. Accompanied by her ex-boyfriend, Koji, and flower child friend, Eve, Indy embarks on a journey that is bound to be anything but ordinary.
	A Huckster's Paradise	by Michael Antoniak May 12, 2010	$5.00	142774 words	Sample 33%
	All Jack Schlitz wants is a second chance at success. When he finds it, as a purveyor of “natural products” with his partners in MacNatural Organics, it proves a velvet prison he half-heartedly longs to escape. Along the way to his epiphany, and beyond, the novel presents a comic view of one microcosm of our marketing-driven consumer culture, where all that really matters is a sale.
	Norton's Ghost	by R Canepa May 10, 2010	$2.99	119213 words	Sample 50%
	His world thrown into doubt with the death of his father, Kyle Dearmond takes to hitchhiking, where he finds meaning, friends, and a new direction despite the chaos of the wandering road.
	Einstein's Road Trip	by George Brinner May 10, 2010	$4.95	89434 words	Sample 30%
	‘Hitchhiker’s Guide meets Don Quixote’. Magical Realism, aliens, and murder. An artist and Albert Einstein are chased cross country in search of life’s design.
	White Pine	by F. J. Mackelroy May 10, 2010	Free!	1572 words	Sample 50%
	As his world and plans disintegrate, will the north woods be enough to heal one man’s pain? A short-short story of the future, past, and present.
	Fighting for Eden	by Jeff Stilwell May 09, 2010	$4.99	104008 words	Sample 50%
	A novel about the making of a peace activist. Awkward and introspective Andrew finds himself unexpectedly thrown into the media spotlight following the Iraq War combat death of his best friend. Split between the University of Washington and his friend's cattle ranch in the wind-swept Yakima Valley, Fighting for Eden is a tale about daring to follow those dreams that are thrust upon us.
	Días de llamas	by Juan Iturralde May 08, 2010	$4.63	180916 words	Sample 20%
	Madrid, 1936. Los militares golpistas se han levantado contra la República. Tomás Labayen, juez de instrucción perteneciente a una familia de clase media con raíces militares, vive en un dilema: por un lado su lealtad republicana, por otro sus escrúpulos morales frente a los excesos de los revolucionarios. ¿Qué hacer?
	Inferno	by Todd Riemer May 06, 2010	$9.95	66786 words	Sample 30%
	The world as we know it has become a history hidden by layers of ash. The great Democracy of the Magistrates has spread itself far and wide. Imprisoned as a traitor, Blum makes an unholy pact, denouncing his mortal soul for an opportunity at vengeance. However, as his quest for revenge wages onward, he realizes that the price on his soul may not be enough.
	Delilah of Sunhats and Swans	by Melissa Volker May 03, 2010	$3.99	62865 words	Sample 20%
	Leaving behind a dark and mysterious past, a young woman steps off a bus in a small New England town. Charming and intriguing, she transforms the lives of all she meets. But her past is catching up with her. Readers of Jane Hamilton and Anne Lammot will respond to Delilah and those she meets in Macaenas.
	Brazen, a novel	by Jason Silva May 03, 2010	$1.99	80457 words	Sample 50%
	Just because you are paranoid and have an over-active imagination, doesn't mean that you won't be drugged and forced to take part in bizzare, ritualistic sex acts with rodents. Or maybe it does. This is the tale of Brennan Frick, an intelligent young man who decides to leave everything behind for a fresh start as a reporter in Biloxi, Mississippi. Along the way he befriends Les, a man who is...
	Hans y las lluvias de Abril	by Juan Iturralde May 01, 2010	$4.63	104674 words	Sample 20%
	La historia de un anónimo y esquizofrénico científico alemán recluido en un manicomio que rememora su vida y la de su "otro yo", Hans. Juan Iturralde (autor de "Días de llamas") nos presenta un fresco humano complejo, que abarca desde los tiempos de Hitler hasta los de la banda Baader-Meinhoff, en el que emerge con especial fuerza la locura que subyace en el interior de cada uno de nosotros.
	Raisinheart	by Tom Lichtenberg April 28, 2010	Free!	16640 words	Read a sample
	Three stories of a lonely youth. Jimmy Kruzel's bad luck is that his worst enemies are always his best friends, or is it the other way around, and that sometimes his darkest hours seem to come right after the dawn. In tales more bitter than sweet, Jimmy finds that you can attract more flies with honey than you can with vinegar, but really, who wants to attract flies anyway?
	A Fame of Two Halves	by Grimoire Books April 28, 2010	$0.99	83180 words	Sample 10%
	For Elliot Gold, manager of the Duxford Ducks football team, life seems to be going from bad to worse. His job and his marriage both face imminent demise. He pins all his hopes on winning one last match. But Elliot Gold is not a lucky man! Drowning his sorrows with his parents in Malta, Elliot is suddenly offered a chance to resurrect his football career with a team he renames The Maltese Falcons!
	The Year of the Blue Snow	by Kevin Walter April 28, 2010	$4.99	72940 words	Sample 30%
	The Year of the Blue Snow follows a group of child survivors in the wake of a plague that takes all adults. Thrown together casually by the whims of fate, as events conspire against them they must create a new world while discovering that their actions and the direction of their lives may be predicated by a larger force, illustrating the paradox of duality: from all events flow both good and evil.
	Parallels	by Jet Rockway April 27, 2010	$4.99	79503 words	Sample 33%
	Parallels is a postmodern tale of two caffeine-fueled trips through mid-90s America, a pair of multilayered storylines melted into a bittersweet reflection on change, misconception, the impossibility of love, and dwarfs inhabiting school busses.
	Abattoir Jack	by Christopher Neilan April 27, 2010	$4.75	46108 words	Sample 10%
	At the age of 22, Jack is going nowhere. Stuck in a New Mexico backwater, slicing dead cattle for a living, he is ready to seize any opportunity to make something of his life. So when his workmate Ed tells him about the $25,000 stashed in a bus station locker in San Francisco, and when he meets the beautiful De S'anna, the two events propel him into a journey of love, drugs, and madness.