Lost cost lit for those who love to read. All ebooks $5.00 or less. Free online samples.
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Young Dan and HORROR-able People | by Dan Clyburn March 27, 2012 | $2.99 | 11132 words | Sample 20% |
| A collection of true stories, starting seventy years ago in 1941. I was four years old, starting school. The teacher turned school into the house of horror for me. The big kids were a bad bunch, that made it worse. I never got over the fear of going to school. This takes you though my years of school and tells you how I handled, the teachers and the bullies. Learning grammar at 75 years old. | |||||
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The Chaotic Worlds Of Erin Miller | by Erin Miller March 26, 2012 | $3.99 | 21748 words | Sample 20% |
| This is an omnibus edition of selected poems and short stories from Erin Miller contained in a single volume. | |||||
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AnimeMETH | by Nipaporn Baldwin March 26, 2012 | Free! | 1114 words | Read a sample |
| AnimeMETH, the first ever "truly" anime-themed book to hit the Smashwords site, combines four anime flash stories accompanied by illustrations. Issue #42 in The Society On Da Run series. | |||||
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Bayou Blues and Other Sorrows | by Teri Heyer March 26, 2012 | $2.99 | 22160 words | Sample 15% |
| "Bayou Blues and Other Sorrows" is a collection of eight short stories and eight poems touching on issues that all may face at one time or another, from lost love to life changing crossroads to moments of pure happiness. | |||||
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Todos somos culpables | by Lidia Soca March 26, 2012 | $2.99 | 15725 words | Sample 20% |
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Something Nice - 10 Stories | by Andrew Lawston March 25, 2012 | $0.99 | 23329 words | Sample 15% |
| 10 short stories by Andrew K Lawston. A blend of science-fiction, philosophy and the supernatural. Whatever else these stories achieve, they all made his Mum ask the same question. "Why don't you write something nice?" | |||||
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Fool's Gold | by Louise Behiel March 25, 2012 | $2.99 | 27063 words | |
| Enjoy seven stories from Bandit Creek authors: FOOL FOR LOVE by Louise Behiel; NEVER COUNT YOUR CHICKENS by Victoria Chatham; WISHFUL THINKING by Alyssa Linn Palmer; AIRPORT SECURITY by Julie Rowe; BABY FEVER by Sheila Seabrook; LUCY’S APRIL FOOLS by Brenda Sinclair; and WHERE RABBITS RUN WILD by Trip Williams. | |||||
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Pocketful of Change | by William Teague March 23, 2012 | $2.99 | 4046 words | Sample 35% |
| A small handpicked collection of poetry and prose that shall prove both poignant and sensory. Writings which become as personal to each reader as they are for the author. A voice that calls out from the primordial forest echoing back to our own true selves. | |||||
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Russ Crossley and R.G. Hart Present Worlds of Science Fiction and Fantasy | by Russ Crossley March 22, 2012 | $4.99 | 22005 words | Sample 15% |
| This collection of five stories reflects my love of science fiction and fantasy about ghosts, aliens, warriors and pirates, danger, and adventure on far away worlds and places of imagination. You will discover a planet for sale, and doorways to other times and worlds where ordinary people like you and I face the unknown life throws at them. | |||||
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The New Adventures of Thunder Jim Wade | by Pro Se Press March 22, 2012 | $2.99 | 63089 words | Sample 20% |
| From A Mysterious Island Hidden in the Pacific Comes a Man Known to Friend and foe alike. Genius. Scientific Wizard. Adventurer. Troubleshooter. Hero. A Force For Justice That Strikes Like Thunder! Pro Se Productions, in conjunction with Altus Press, Presents THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THUNDER JIM WADE! | |||||
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Il primo giorno di lavoro - Facce da curriculum | by autori vari March 22, 2012 | $3.99 | 56072 words | Sample 20% |
| Cosa può accadere ad un giovane durante il suo primo giorno di lavoro? Diciannove racconti fotografano situazioni paradossali, grottesche, spesso divertenti e a volte terribili. | |||||
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New Bedlam: Town Archives Vol.2 | by Jodi Lee March 21, 2012 | $2.99 | 69556 words | Sample 20% |
| Come back to New Bedlam, celebrate our unofficial bi-centennial year with a festival like no other. The monsters have definitely escaped their bounds, and the writers will never sleep again. Volume 2 includes stories from authors such as Paul Anderson, Natalie Sin, K.V. Taylor, Wayne Goodchild and more... Dare you walk these streets? | |||||
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Demon in the Basement | by Laura Eno March 21, 2012 | $2.99 | 67290 words | Sample 20% |
| A time-traveling Chevy, an ancient church of evil, a house possessed by black magic. Stories to fill you with dread, draw you into places you'd rather not go, smack you in the face with ironic possibilities. Meet the monsters of myth, the creatures that lurk under your bed, the phantoms you thought didn't exist. Travel to the real Atlantis, strap in for the Bermuda Triangle. | |||||
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Lesbian Diaries (The Collection) | by Nell Boye March 21, 2012 | $3.49 | 21764 words | Sample 20% |
| This collection contains the first two very successful stories of my Lesbian Diaries series, the Photographer and Stripper, along with a completely fresh story called the Masseuse. WARNING! This story contains very explicit sex between women. For mature 18 and over readers only. | |||||
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Flash Fiction, Volume 1 | by Kelli Jae Baeli March 21, 2012 | $0.99 | 8995 words | |
| A collection of short fiction about right and wrong, greed, estrangement, a Chihuahua, what makes us real, bad customer service and rude patrons, a loveable mutt, a lesson learned, a talking newspaper, dealing with the unschooled, apparitions, the future as past, and accepting loss. | |||||
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Eye Control | by Shullamuth Smith March 20, 2012 | $0.99 | 4182 words | Sample 20% |
| Parker is a private detective with discipline and eye control. He trains his shuttering lens on Moria, a cheating wife hunting freedom in the arms of someone else's husband. The two confront each other in the tiny bar at the Plum Pit motel on an electric night that only one of them will survive. | |||||
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The Last Train Home & Other Stories | by Erin Lawless March 20, 2012 | $1.50 | 14102 words | Sample 10% |
| Available for Kindle from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and to read online and in all other digital formats on Smashwords. An exciting new collection of sixteen short stories. Big stories in bite-size, perfect for commuters or a quick read before bedtime. | |||||
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The Ten Commandments | by Dante Harker March 20, 2012 | $3.89 | 77684 words | Sample 20% |
| If you were to break a commandment which one would it be? Have you broken one already? Several? The Ten Commandments is a collection of ten stories that take an abstract look at breaking the commandments. Some of the stories are dark, some tearful, some horrific, all are told with a dark comic touch. These stories are for the open-minded who want to be challenged. | |||||
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Burn, Honey, Burn! | by planet p March 19, 2012 | $0.99 | 13067 words | Sample 20% |
| Ten short stories about ordinary people and their relationships. With others, and sometimes, with themselves. **Get this free when you buy "A Breaking of Ice"** | |||||
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Disintegration Visions | by J.M. McDermott March 19, 2012 | $3.99 | 73688 words | Sample 26% |
| Sometimes it’s not what you say, but how you say it. Crawford Award-nominated fantasy author J.M. McDermott says it with aliens, magical frogs and the Berlin wall. Share his discoveries in nature, bug-infested basements and visions of death. Visions of the future. Visions of forgotten pasts. It's all here in J.M. McDermott's powerful collection of dark fantasy and horror from Apex Publications. | |||||
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Thomas Bulford's English Companion | by Ian B G Burns March 18, 2012 | $3.77 | 40396 words | Sample 20% |
| A new compendium of words by a little-known but infinitely-self-important, self-proclaimed aficianado, on why English is the greatest language. | |||||
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Filaments: Little Literary Triumphs of Sputnikoi | by Mirvan Ereon March 18, 2012 | Free! | 13761 words | Read a sample |
| A collection of my award-winning works in Allpoetry and Storywrite. Currently, I won several gold, silver, bronze and honorable awards throughout the years. This collection is my tribute to the love of writing and to writing with excellence. Please support Allpoetry and Storywrite. These two are very great websites for writers like me. I started with them so I am forever grateful. | |||||
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Dollar Dreadfuls Volume Four | by Chris Roberts March 18, 2012 | $0.99 | 22302 words | Sample 20% |
| The fourth collection of an ongoing series of ghost and horror stories set in 21st century London. | |||||
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My love and times | by Edward Mukwakwami March 18, 2012 | $3.99 | 6163 words | Sample 20% |
| A poetry anthology(single author)comprising poems about love and life in general.Here is my story,in poems,short stories,songs and any phrase ununderstandable in tongues,inspired by wit,hip-hop,adventure,experiment,experience and curiosity,hope you will enjoy! | |||||
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Moonlight Mysteries | by Marigold Harris March 17, 2012 | $1.99 | 7673 words | Sample 20% |
| Eleven short stories of mystery and moonlight. Angels, devils, ghosts and mermaids. You'll find them all here. | |||||
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How I Met My Husband: The Real-Life Love Stories of 25 Romance Authors | by Michele Stegman March 17, 2012 | Free! | 36525 words | Read a sample |
| 25 Romance authors share their true stories of how they met their husbands. | |||||
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Painted Ponies | by Tammy Rainey March 17, 2012 | $2.99 | 9496 words | Sample 20% |
| In the course of life, it is often not the big events that define us, but the quite small moments that end up shaping who we are. A boy is changed by a simple tradition that bound his widowed mother and the father no longer with them. A father comes close to losing his son and rethinks his own life. A prisoner finds hope in the face of hopelessness. Minor chords in the songs of life. 9473 words. | |||||
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Old School | by Snubnose Press March 17, 2012 | $2.99 | 28342 words | Sample 20% |
| Old School is a collection of fourteen short stories. | |||||
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A Thorn of Death | by Firefly Anthology March 17, 2012 | $2.99 | 61309 words | Sample 20% |
| A Thorn of Death is a Zombie Anthology from Firefly & Wisp Publishing. 13 writers, 13 stories, one goal: Scare the Hell out of you! Stephanie Greenhalgh, Lee Taylor, Lisa Morgan, William Fetching, Charles Oliver, Roy Hudson, Dawn Jayne, Jennifer Paquette, Cassandra Griffin, Amy Lunderman, S. Yumi Yamamoto, Jay T. Harding, & Vanessa Belle | |||||
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The Village on the Hill | by Parkrow Publishing March 16, 2012 | $3.99 | 56233 words | Sample 10% |
| Stories of childhood in an English fenland. | |||||
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Everyone Comes From Somewhere | by William V. Delaney March 16, 2012 | $1.00 | 21531 words | Sample 5% |
| Permit to Work- "I know you got a good side. When that wire brush was eatin' me up at the plant, it was you that jumped to help me." The Ibara Chronicles- "What are you smiling about?" Dee said. "You'll see." Brad knew it was not applause she cherished, it was the satisfaction of bringing words and actions into a believable story. It was the same reason he was writing." | |||||
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The Right Medicine: A Romantic Short Story | by Ginny Baird March 16, 2012 | $0.99 | 17365 words | Sample 20% |
| The Right Medicine: A Romantic Short Story, a short "short" from bestselling author Ginny Baird. Single mom Carly moves to the country to start a new life for her two kids, and discovers a fresh beginning for herself, as well... Includes Bonus Materials: Read extended excerpts (1st 3 chapters) from Ginny's romantic comedies, Real Romance and The Sometime Bride! Coming soon to Smashwords! | |||||
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Gnawing the Bone: Dog Fiction | by Raud Kennedy March 16, 2012 | $4.99 | 49499 words | Sample 15% |
| What is your dog thinking? What puts a smile on his face? In this collection of dog fiction, dogs speak their minds in that straightforward manner only dogs have. They want to know why we do what we do. Why are humans obsessed with sex? Some of the dogs are from around the corner, others from the farthest reaches of the galaxy—and some even live on an Earth where dogs are the dominant species. | |||||
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Ghostwriting | by Eric Brown March 16, 2012 | $2.99 | 46739 words | Sample 20% |
| Over the course of a career spanning 25 years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller “The House†to the more overtly fantastical horror of “Li Ketsuwanâ€, from the contemporary science fiction of “The Memory of Joy†to the almost-mainstream of “The Man Who Never Read Novelsâ€. | |||||
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Eternally Jane: A Short Story | by Krista D. Ball March 15, 2012 | $1.00 | 4175 words | Sample 40% |
| Lady Francis Millington rushes to Chawton after receiving a startling letter about the declining health of her dear friend, Miss Jane Austen. She is in possession of the one thing that can cure her friend. The question is, will Francis have to force it upon Jane, or will she drink the blood of eternal life willing? | |||||
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Vienna, USA | by Nick Hayden March 15, 2012 | $0.99 | 18674 words | Sample 40% |
| Vienna is a small Midwestern town like a hundred others, but if you look closely, it has its stories: the reporter who survives a lightning strike, the grandfather suffering from ALS, the emotionless bachelor trying to discover what love is. Collected here are five stories from Vienna, where ordinary people encounter the big questions of life. | |||||
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A Handful of Stories | by Deepankar March 15, 2012 | $3.49 | 62622 words | Sample 20% |
| A Handful of Stories is a collection of ten short stories. These stories reflect the hopes and aspirations of urban India and the young people gravitating towards it. There is passion, frustration, love, rejection, endurance, despair, faith, deception, ambition, tragedy and a host of other emotions in them, which is a microcosm, of life in India. | |||||
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Round Up At The Burger Bar: Parts 1-5 The Beginning | by Russ Crossley March 15, 2012 | $3.99 | 17405 words | Sample 15% |
| This book collects the first five parts of the serial novel Round Up At The Burger bar: The Legend of Trixie Pug. By the year 3333 1/3 massive fast food corporations control the galaxy. Trixie will become the galaxy's 2nd most powerful CEO for a fast food franchise called Heavenly Sky Burger. To read more about Trixie check out the short story, Big Business and the novel Attack of the Lushites. | |||||
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So Far | by Thea Biesheuvel March 14, 2012 | $3.99 | 35877 words | Sample 15% |
| He said, “but I’d like to see more of you.†I nearly laughed. This was the phrase which my girlfriend and I had identified months earlier as an indication that a man might like to see, not just more, but all of you, preferably in bed. Nineteen short stories from master story-teller, Thea Biesheuvel, explore many themes — love, loss, assimilation, war and the resilience of the human spirit | |||||
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The Boy Who Cried Zombie - A Zombie A.C.R.E.S. Sampler | by Joshua Cook March 14, 2012 | Free! | 8373 words | Read a sample |
| What you hold in front of you is a small sampling of short stories from the indie zombie series Zombie A.C.R.E.S. All three of these short stories are part of a larger collection entitled AiZ: Alice in Zombieland, which is due out spring 2012. These stories are not only here to whet your appetite for this upcoming anthology, but also to introduce you to a very interesting world. | |||||
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La Jubilacion del Pirata y otras Leyendas | by Bernabe Perez March 14, 2012 | $2.99 | 23671 words | Sample 13% |
| Esta es una recopilación de leyendas de todo el mundo. El lector encontrará aquà una amena colección de leyendas desde antiguas hasta urbanas. Algunas son simpáticas, otras son de horror. Este es material que ha circulado de boca en boca y ha crecido hasta tomar vida y forma escrita, bajo la pluma magistral de Bernabé Pérez, conocido columnista, autor de "Cuéntame tu Sueño" y "Leyendas". | |||||
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Postcards Of Passion | by Naughty Nights Press March 14, 2012 | Free! | 34779 words | Read a sample |
| Postcards of Passion is a free read put together by fourteen writers who want to share a sample of their writing, with you, the reader. Each story will keep you enthralled, excited and entertained. We have a little bit of everything from the authors of Naughty Nights Press. | |||||
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Exile (The Extraterrestrial Anthology, Volume I: Temblar) | by Dave Robinson March 13, 2012 | Free! | 1540 words | Read a sample |
| Short story (1280 words) about an extraterrestrial being exiled to planet Earth with some interesting consequences for our space program. The tale is "Twilight Zone-esque" in both theme and writing style but captures some of the dysfunction of recent years in the space program. “Exile†is the fourth story in “The Extraterrestrial Anthology, Volume I: Temblar.†| |||||
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Were-Poodles & Dragon-Cats | by Trina Jacobs March 13, 2012 | $1.49 | 5180 words | Sample 30% |
| Here you'll meet the ideal pet for someone else's family, see what happens when a science project goes very wrong, find out just how disagreeable food can be, and learn who should have been afraid to venture into the woods alone. This collection of a dozen stories is a fast read at only 4,600 words. | |||||
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Just Get It Out There | by Steel City Writers March 13, 2012 | Free! | 16304 words | Read a sample |
| An Anthology of Creative Writing from the Steel City Writers The South Yorkshire based writing quintet bring you their collection of short stories, flash fiction and poetry. | |||||
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Spellbound Hearts | by Still Moments Publishing March 13, 2012 | $2.99 | 31680 words | |
| March 2012 Anthology, Spellbound Hearts, Magical Anthology, Contemporary, Fantasy, Sensual | |||||
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Dollar Dreadfuls Volume Three | by Chris Roberts March 13, 2012 | $0.99 | 22074 words | Sample 20% |
| The third of an ongoing series of ghost and horror stories set in 21st century London. | |||||
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Dollar Dreadfuls Volume Two | by Chris Roberts March 13, 2012 | $0.99 | 22262 words | Sample 20% |
| The second of an ongoing series of ghost and horror stories set in 21st century London. | |||||
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Bad Girls - Eight Noir Stories | by Max Scratchmann March 13, 2012 | $4.95 | 15636 words | Sample 5% |
| Bad girls, wicked women; lecherous, treacherous villainesses; hedonistic harlots, and plain old-fashioned bunny-boiling temptresses. | |||||
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Campus Sexploits Deux | by Naughty Nights Press March 13, 2012 | $2.99 | 12457 words | Sample 20% |
| Ever do anything in college or university that was considered “outrageous†by your friends? Maybe you engaged in spontaneous, steamy sex with a “god-like†classmate you’d lusted after all year... Or found that one of your Professor’s best classes - the most memorable - was hands on tutelage of the sexual kind... | |||||