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The First Chicano Time Traveler by Jeremy Charo The First Chicano Time Traveler by Jeremy Charo April 26, 2012 $0.99 2112 words Sample 10%
An elderly man stumbles upon a desert labyrinth and takes an accidental trip through time.
Il mistero della racchetta perduta - Ping-Pong by Enzo Pettinelli Il mistero della racchetta perduta - Ping-Pong by Enzo Pettinelli April 26, 2012 $0.99 5862 words Sample 30%
Ci sono l’estate, il mare e il vento. E i venti sono quelli buoni, le brezze leggere. Il racconto parla della parabola della vita: la coglie nel punto in cui comincia a salire verso l’alto e la fa incontrare col punto in cui comincia a scendere verso il basso. Una magia possibile per chi sa raccontare, ed Enzo Pettinelli la racconta attraverso la straordinaria metafora del ping-pong.
Life by Katy Davidson Life by Katy Davidson April 26, 2012 $0.99 8816 words Sample 20%
Nothing is ever as perfect as we dream it to be. A girl must learn to live on her own after her man leaves her for another woman. All of their paths will cross in this journey known as life.
A Holly Trifecta by Jose Rodriguez A Holly Trifecta by Jose Rodriguez April 25, 2012 Free! 6252 words Read a sample
Three short stories specifically written for publication in religious magazines. Two out the three got published in 1994 and 1995. Years later, after re-reading this early work, I have to admit that these stories are tearjerkers. I didn't set out to write lachrymose stories, but sometimes stories write themselves. I have bundled these stories in this trilogy, for those of you who like spirituality
The Sticks by JF Smith The Sticks by JF Smith April 25, 2012 $0.99 9124 words Sample 20%
Percy wants to be as far away as possible from the place that has been the source of his troubles all his life. But to his disappointment, he finds himself in the last place he expected. And a chance encounter with a redneck and a stubborn hound dog aren’t helping, either. That is… until they do. This short story imagines that, perhaps, very big things can happen in very small moments.
My Mother's Yukata by Mary Claire Mahaney My Mother's Yukata by Mary Claire Mahaney April 25, 2012 $0.99 3724 words Sample 15%
Nate travels to Japan in 1984 with his high school classmates – and his mother. “My Mother’s Yukata” shares the intimate story of Nate’s coming-of-age lessons in life, love, and loss.
The Family Reunion: A Fictional Family Portrait of Not-So-Real Family Members by Hidden Brook Press The Family Reunion: A Fictional Family Portrait of Not-So-Real Family Members by Hidden Brook Press April 25, 2012 Free! 13652 words Read a sample
The Family Reunion has been described as the Walton family meets Stephen Leacock. It is a collection of vignettes and character sketches woven together around a family reunion. Put your feet up and be ready to chuckle – A light read for the whole family.
A Conversation With a Kid by Kara Rochelle A Conversation With a Kid by Kara Rochelle April 25, 2012 Free! 645 words Read a sample
“To tell you the truth, kid, I don’t see that this world has much to offer me... I guess I’m sort of hoping the next one does.”
Buddha on the Road by Simon J Townley Buddha on the Road by Simon J Townley April 25, 2012 $0.99 3408 words Sample 20%
Harlow wants to put the war behind him and forget about conflict and violence. But can he turn his back on confrontation? And when a new enemy appears, can his fragile sanity survive? A short story of 3,500 words.
Copper Soldiers (The Devil's Forge) by Shane Greenhough Copper Soldiers (The Devil's Forge) by Shane Greenhough April 24, 2012 Free! 2104 words Read a sample
In this, the second short story in the Devil's Forge series, we take a backward step from the end to meet Jennifer, the wife of Bradley (from Yesterday, I Died).
My Indian Queen: A Novella by J.M. Moris My Indian Queen: A Novella by J.M. Moris April 24, 2012 $2.99 33174 words Sample 20%
The summer Ryan turns 18 and prepares to leave for college, his world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new neighbor...an exotic firecracker of a girl, all the way from India. Over the course of their summer together, Ryan finds himself hopelessly drawn into her colorful world...a world more exciting and vivid than he ever dared dream.
Daddy's Favorites: Tina (Erotic Erotica Taboo) by Selena Kitt Daddy's Favorites: Tina (Erotic Erotica Taboo) by Selena Kitt April 24, 2012 $2.99 9041 words Sample 20%
Chubby Tina thinks she couldn’t hate herself any more than she already does, when she overhears her skinny mother telling a friend, “We’re going to be stuck with Tina forever. No guy is ever going to want her.” That is, until her stepfather catches her with going out the door in the middle of the night with a suitcase, surprising Tina with the lengths he'll go to prove he thinks she's beautiful.
A Beauty So Loud by James Grant A Beauty So Loud by James Grant April 24, 2012 $1.99 54522 words Sample 20%
Through three characters, their interactions (or lack thereof), and roughly 24 hours, three major questions are explored. What does it mean to be a man when the world has been conquered, or rather, what power do rites of passage have in a digital age? What does it mean to be human when you have been robbed of your humanity? What does it mean to be an American in a global society?
Jade Gets Pregnant by Monica P Jade Gets Pregnant by Monica P April 23, 2012 $1.00 1475 words Sample 15%
Jades goes out with a boyfriend. She then meets her friends brother. She ends up pregnant!
A Modern Day by Peter Rehard A Modern Day by Peter Rehard April 23, 2012 Free! 33900 words Read a sample
A look into the lives of four people over the course of one day.
Sine by Peter Rehard Sine by Peter Rehard April 23, 2012 Free! 47734 words Read a sample
A young man finds his way to a settling place and as he tries to understand his nature and find his future, he is caught in it, only to be left in the end with less.
August to Life by Max Stone August to Life by Max Stone April 23, 2012 $0.99 55458 words Sample 15%
Like mother, like father, like son. Where the blood stops? Who knows?
Happy Mother's Day, Unofficially by William Mathis Happy Mother's Day, Unofficially by William Mathis April 23, 2012 $1.29 8339 words Sample 20%
Rita spent her childhood yearning for her dead mother, who left behind no memories or photographs. She constructed elaborate fantasies to compensate for the loss. But when her mother mysteriously reappears as if resurrected, proving her father a liar, Rita demands to know the truth. The answers are far from what she expected. Can Rita ever forgive her family for such actions? Could anyone?
Learning Curve by Diana Hunter Learning Curve by Diana Hunter April 23, 2012 $1.99 13558 words Sample 20%
A college grad student, studious and serious, hides a secret: her deepest fantasies revolve around the forbidden fruit of bondage and the dark world of BDSM. When a fellow classmate offers her an introduction to that world, she enters a whole new school of learning.
A Kaddish for Inhuman Steadman by Lance Levens A Kaddish for Inhuman Steadman by Lance Levens April 23, 2012 $2.99 61445 words Sample 20%
Holden Caulfield meets Huckleberry Finn in Last Step, GA, where four teenage boys erect a plaster of Paris altar--to breasts. Their leader, Twit Feely, is smitten by their owner, Laramy Laredo, Last Step High's Olympic weight-lifting hopeful. The love and humble faith of an orthodox Jew bring the boys to understand that the flesh should never be the measure of our love.
tập truyện Nguyá»…n Thị Thảo An by Nguyá»…n Thị Thảo An tập truyện Nguyá»…n Thị Thảo An by Nguyá»…n Thị Thảo An April 23, 2012 $4.99 110335 words Sample 20%
tập truyện nguyễn thị thảo an Kệ Sách eBook Publishing Center Smashwords Edition Copyright @2012 by Nguyễn Thị Thảo An ISBN: 978-1-4524-4507-6
Survival Instinct by James Kinsak Survival Instinct by James Kinsak April 23, 2012 $1.99 5980 words Sample 20%
When William’s sister begs him to visit, he travels into the northern interior to visit her and her family, thinking he’s on a kind of rescue mission. But in the snowy fields and basements of 100 Mile Ranch, the question is who, exactly, needs rescuing from what? A more reflective turn from an author who specializes in exploring dark places.
La obra by Alfonso Casasola Gómez-Aguado La obra by Alfonso Casasola Gómez-Aguado April 23, 2012 $3.99 11885 words Sample 10%
Me pregunto, ¿cómo he llegado hasta esta situación? Aquí estoy. No sé qué es lo que me pasa. Todo sale negro, negro, negro. Despedida a todo lo que quiero, inesperada situación que acogota, camino de elefante hacia el cementerio sagrado, hacia el camposanto lleno de cruces cristianas. ¿Por qué la muerte es compañera de viaje?
All but one by Pina Varriale All but one by Pina Varriale April 23, 2012 $2.99 36381 words Sample 20%
Julia’s family wasn’t rolling in money, but they were never short of money for groceries or a holiday. One evening her father didn’t come home and when she started looking for him at his work she was told that they hadn’t seen him for months – since the day that he was fired…
Mabel's Elephant by Charles Harvey Mabel's Elephant by Charles Harvey April 23, 2012 $0.99 4277 words Sample 20%
It’s 2012, and an election year in America. However bad you think it is, it’s not nearly as bad as it is for poor Mabel and Harold Singer. An Elelphant might be delivered to the White House, but at least it won’t be delivered to your living room. And if it is, you have every right to protest such action as vigorously as possible without the fear of lobotomy or other weird punishments.
Life After Life, Another Glimpse at Grief, 'Til Death--Never--Do US Part, a true tale of initiation by Marsha Jane Orr Life After Life, Another Glimpse at Grief, 'Til Death--Never--Do US Part, a true tale of initiation by Marsha Jane Orr April 22, 2012 $0.99 23618 words Sample 20%
Orr relates, in straightforward prose, the ways in which her grief propels her into past-life regression therapy and alters her perception of her own spiritual path….Cathartic and emotionally relevant for readers who have recently suffered a loss —Kirkus Reviews
Inner Legacy by Douglas Stuart Inner Legacy by Douglas Stuart April 22, 2012 $3.99 48299 words Sample 40%
An allegorical mystery. Adam discovers a coded book left to him by his Grandfather. Reading the decoded book takes Adam on a journey to the very heart of life itself.
Asphalt and Dragonflies by Paul Hawkins Asphalt and Dragonflies by Paul Hawkins April 22, 2012 Free! 2998 words Read a sample
Part surrealism and part Flannery O'Connor: as a storm and an odd plague of insects beset his house, a dying man is confronted by scraps of his memory, reknitting to remind him of the life he lived as a big man when America was big, throwing roads across a once rural country just to show off the nation's prosperity, fervently pursuing career at the expense of his family.
A damaged boy by Alex Burrett A damaged boy by Alex Burrett April 21, 2012 $3.99 158285 words Sample 20%
A second collection of short fiction from 5* rated writer Alex Burrett – author of ‘My Goat Ate Its Own Legs’. Three years of original thoughts, worlds and characters crammed into one ebook. An egg-eating snake made to feel unwelcome, a promise “never to love anyone ever again” tested to the extreme, a Welsh village where everyone is knighted, and goose with a very fat head. (To name but a few.)
The Howling Winds by Jess O'Connell The Howling Winds by Jess O'Connell April 21, 2012 Free! 3549 words Sample 10%
...'the moon darkened...time bled...the grains of a forgotten world'...
A Child Out Of Alcatraz by Tara Ison A Child Out Of Alcatraz by Tara Ison April 21, 2012 $2.99 77939 words Sample 10%
“Searingly original, brutal, unique. Tara Ison is unquestionably an important new voice in American fiction.” —Carolyn See, author of The Handyman “A fascinating and wonderfully evocative first novel about life on Alcatraz – seen through the eyes of a little girl growing up on the Rock in the 1950s. A compelling story, richly evoking a time and place.” —Kirkus Reviews
Marginalia (a Short Story) by Lucas Nicolato Marginalia (a Short Story) by Lucas Nicolato April 21, 2012 $0.99 5071 words Sample 40%
In this weird tale a man imprisoned in a room with his favorite books for eternity takes a literary life to its ultimate consequences.
Inside Darkness (a Short Story) by Lucas Nicolato Inside Darkness (a Short Story) by Lucas Nicolato April 21, 2012 $0.99 7002 words Sample 40%
In this weird tale an Italian merchant is made prisoner by mysterious pirates and taken to a time-forgotten city were the very fabric of reality is twisted in an unnatural and surprising way.
Trumpeters [Bulgarian Theatrical Plays] by Lyubomir Nikolov Trumpeters [Bulgarian Theatrical Plays] by Lyubomir Nikolov April 21, 2012 $3.99 17749 words Sample 10%
Two theatrical plays by Lyubomir Nikolov. Contemporary Bulgarian drama - postmodern, dystopian, mind-grabbing. Trumpeters is dystopian play where absurdity and laughter fight, leading the actors to complete exhaustion. For the Wind and Other Feasts of Nature is contemporary, eco comedy for the times when petrol is finished, the nature's habits and the energies are changing but people don't.
Candytuff by James Spurlock Candytuff by James Spurlock April 20, 2012 $0.99 62422 words Sample 20%
John Redd never liked to get out of bed any sooner than he had to .... And he would have tried to keep on sleeping a few minutes longer one rememberable cold winter morning, but when he sat up and opened the venetian blinds over the window next to his bed, just enough to see if the rain that had started falling during the night had turned as the weatherman had predicted into snow and he would
Carl’s Hat Wins Marathon: a short story by Jeff Posey Carl’s Hat Wins Marathon: a short story by Jeff Posey April 20, 2012 $0.99 4642 words Sample 30%
At age ninety-two, the last surviving player from Super Bowl XXI in 1987, Carl decides to win the New York Marathon or die trying. And that’s exactly what he does. In front of the world’s cameras, he crashes to the ground, finished. But his hat doesn’t stay finished. Runner after runner picks it up and relays it to the front-runners, where a battle of epic proportion ensues to get Carl’s hat acro
Four-Way Stop by Stephanie Bibb Four-Way Stop by Stephanie Bibb April 20, 2012 Free! 1180 words Read a sample
970 words. A man's choices lead him to four red lights in the middle of nowhere, where he is haunted by a ghost of his past.
Summer Rain by Jon Konrath Summer Rain by Jon Konrath April 20, 2012 $2.99 221003 words Sample 20%
John Conner has lost his girlfriend, his job, a scholarship, and has been kicked out of college. Instead of retreating back to his parents’ basement and a life of mediocrity and factory labor, he decides to stay the summer in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana.
Needs by Sylvia Morice Needs by Sylvia Morice April 20, 2012 $0.99 3139 words Sample 30%
What does job burnout feel like? Join a nurse as she works through her day; get inside her head as she attempts to balance her needs with her patient’s needs. Will she make it to the end of her shift? Will her patient?
Delhi Deadlines by Sheldon Smith Delhi Deadlines by Sheldon Smith April 20, 2012 $2.99 85547 words Sample 10%
A washed out journalist, posted to India to cover a bloody election campaign, uncovers truths about his son's life - and death - in the country, truths that test loyalties forged in the war zones of Bosnia and Rwanda. A fiercely evocative narrative of modern-day India, filled with the clamour and hot stinks of its capital, this is a novel of death woven through with life.
Between Lions and Lambs by NT McQueen Between Lions and Lambs by NT McQueen April 20, 2012 $3.99 81824 words Sample 20%
Dark secrets are revealed, faith is tested, and lives are forever altered in the debut novel by N.T. McQueen, Between Lions and Lambs. The story follows the hypocrisy of a huge televangelist ministry and the conflicted lives of the men who control it. A poignant and provocative examination of those who use religion and the demons they battle.
Proxy by Jason Mallory Proxy by Jason Mallory April 20, 2012 $4.99 14568 words Sample 20%
Robots replace human workers, devastating the economy. Civil War begins as presidential hopefuls legislate amid corruption.
Resonant Blue by CJ Marsicano Resonant Blue by CJ Marsicano April 19, 2012 $2.99 51778 words Sample 20%
It is 1983 in Tokyo. Reina Kawamura is a 16-year-old teenager determined to start her own punk rock band after an audition for an established group goes sour. What starts as a semi-serious lark with her best friends becomes the start of an experience that ends up changing her life - on and off stage - for the better.
The Book Collector by Gail Neve The Book Collector by Gail Neve April 19, 2012 $4.99 140712 words Sample 10%
Accounting is Monica's 'penny' job. It feeds her passion - for the ownership of ancient books. This love of books has given her many insights into life of course, but little could she imagine that her passion would lead to the most dramatic and lasting changes she would ever experience in her life. The Book Collector is a passionate, wild, ride through a nightmare of love, lust and self-discovery.
Whispers from the Doll's House by Christopher Muir Whispers from the Doll's House by Christopher Muir April 19, 2012 $4.99 106185 words Sample 10%
You just know there's something 'not quite right' about wheelchair-bound ten-year-old Michael Harrington when you first meet him inside the Meadowfield Hospital for the Insane.
Friday Afternoon by T.D. Johnston Friday Afternoon by T.D. Johnston April 19, 2012 $0.99 11659 words Sample 25%
In a hurry, and stuck behind a dirty pickup truck on a lonely two-lane road in western North Carolina, corporate executive Bryce Stanford attempts a bad pass around the wrong guy. The events which follow will test his courage, his strength...and his soul.
W Polsce by Tadeusz Korzeniewski W Polsce by Tadeusz Korzeniewski April 19, 2012 $3.00 34428 words Sample 5%
E-book trzeciego wydania "W Polsce", które ukazało się w ramach Kanonu Literatury Podziemnej w 2010. Edycja poszerzona o współczesny komentarz "Po słowie", spojrzenie na polską scenę ostatnich 30 lat. Opowiadanie "W Polsce" pierwszy raz ukazało się w polskim podziemiu wydawniczym w 1978.
.30-.30 Vision by Max E. Keele .30-.30 Vision by Max E. Keele April 19, 2012 Free! 1268 words Read a sample
Is it enough for a young man to remember a fine Autumn day spent at the side of his father? Or do darker memories squirming in the depths of his brain matter more? Or even more: is it ever all right to kill a thing of beauty?
Undercover by Paul Kestell Undercover by Paul Kestell April 19, 2012 $1.99 9959 words Sample 2%
a journalist who makes his living investigating sleaze--finds his view of the world turned upside down, when he goes undercover a weekend away reveals the otherside of sexuality--as he uncovers the truth-about what makes us human.
Famous by Ashley Barron Famous by Ashley Barron April 19, 2012 Free! 2333 words Read a sample
A daughter comes to terms with her father's Alzheimer's disease.