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Down By The River	by Sam Jordison Feb. 02, 2012	$0.99	4176 words	Sample 20%
A Bad Dollar Tale - a story about spending a dollar unwisely, included in the Bad Dollar Tale series. It tells of a Dad who does some silly things....
Eminent Domain	by Tit Elingtin Jan. 28, 2012	$3.99	58756 words	Sample 20%
A young couple buys the waterfront home of their dreams. After years of rehab to their home, they find it was all in vain. The government is going to take it from them. Feeling robbed of his liberty, Jeff is left hopeless and is willing to lose it all. This is the revised second edition.
404 Documents	by James Curcio Jan. 15, 2012	$2.99	16789 words	Sample 20%
Written off the headlines, this modern myth blurs the lines between fiction and reality. By James Curcio and Nate Sampsel. From the Fallen Nation world.
The Factory Line, A Pulp Novel	by Ian Truman Jan. 13, 2012	$0.99	38630 words	Sample 15%
Ian starts his shift at 6:59 in the industrial wasteland of Montreal-East only to finish his day, fifteen hours later, in the notorious red light district. Simple as that. Low key, gritty, trashy... funny as hell. The Factory Line is Ian Truman's true-ish account of life in a Montreal factory.
The Blue Van	by Jason Fox Jan. 12, 2012	$0.99	25657 words	Sample 10%
My brother, my psychopath.
Vicissitude, A Comedy Of Terrors	by Z. Inda Turner Dec. 27, 2011	$4.99	19680 words	Sample 40%
Revenge is Sweet . . . A Comedy of Terrors.
The Lust Damned or: Long Island Iced Tea	by Michael Hemmingson Dec. 25, 2011	$0.99	8468 words	Sample 20%
On his 29th birthday in Las Vegas, a man gets into some pretty weird trouble involving Rastfarian assassins, Russian hitmen, and a crazy sexy wild gun-toting defense attorney named Lisa Dean.
This is My Time	by Michael Hemmingson Dec. 24, 2011	$0.99	14120 words	Sample 20%
This is My Time is a post-postmodern version of Hemingwayâ€™s In Our Time, and while it follows the structure and a few themes, it does not â€œre-writeâ€ Hemingwayâ€™s texts.
(I Blame) the Mute Button of the Mutton	by Zoe E. Whitten Dec. 23, 2011	Free!	6275 words	Read a sample
What follows is the confession of the world's dumbest criminal as he explain why he felt the need to try and keep a woman in a pit despite living in an upstairs apartment. This is a free short story which was written on request, but which the publisher no longer wants. I'm giving it away to express my gratitude to folks for reading my other stories.
How to Kill Your Boss and Get Away With It	by H.B. Berlow Dec. 08, 2011	Free!	2775 words	Read a sample
A woman puts up with her obnoxious boss just as long as she can. She then takes matters into her own hands and teaches all underpaid and overworked employees how to take back their jobs and their lives.
Just Like Daddy	by H.B. Berlow Dec. 05, 2011	Free!	1087 words	Read a sample
A prostitute who specializes in various characters winds up playing one a little too close to home.
The Last Book You Read	by Ewan Morrison Dec. 05, 2011	$0.99	80281 words	Sample 20%
Twelve stories about love, lust and loss in the age of the internet. 'The most compelling Scottish Literary debut since Trainspotting' The Times. 'A mini masterpiece' Chris Dillon 'A brilliant collection of searing short stories - deeply poignant' Richard Holloway, BBC. 'A mesmerizing, no-holds-barred collection' The Herald
A Digital Kumquat	by John Ward Nov. 28, 2011	$4.99	32232 words	Sample 20%
In a stylish, luxurious, and rarified atmosphere, avant-garde weapons contractors market amazing, leaked CERN neutrino-beam technology to highest-level government officials - and in doing so also manage to introduce psycho-sexual methods and ideas well outside the boundaries of the commonplace or the expected, with strange consequences. Upbeat adult fun-fiction with an immensely serious undertone.
Roundabout	by Spider Moon Nov. 20, 2011	$0.99	13405 words	Sample 10%
Reflections and refractions abound as the lead character drifts back and forth in time in a manner anything but typical. Mr. Toad's wild ride through a psychoactive jungle.
Carer Fiction	by Blake Ryder Nov. 20, 2011	$4.99	21054 words	Sample 15%
Caring for a life can be murder. After seven years in a sexless Christian marriage spent caring for his disabled wife, he wrote three anonymous stories of surreal, violently sexualized perversity and abruptly abandoned her for a life of carnal indulgence. These are the stories: confronting, disturbing, satiric, discomforting and fetishistic - the underlying pathology of the "carer" dissected.
Whatever Happened to the Boy? The Boy and the Girl Saga	by Kathleen Patel Nov. 19, 2011	$1.99	22641 words	Sample 10%
Ryan and Shari are out for a good time. They are like bright magnets that attract an odd ssortment of followers. Like a moth to the flame. Perverted rich men wine and dine them; take them on exotic trips and buy them expensive gifts. Nobody notices the ugliness and the demons that follow close behind. Life is one long party. Or is it? Shari gives up her escort service when she gets involved
Kisss	by Spider Moon Nov. 17, 2011	$0.99	4864 words	Sample 10%
Think 1987. Think Echo & the Bunnymen. Think Lips Like Sugar. The stage is now set for a rocket blast explosion that brings on a minimalist countercultural ethic mashed in with an all-out wham bam thank you ma'am...in stereo.
Neck 2 Knees	by Spider Moon Nov. 15, 2011	$0.99	4007 words	Sample 10%
What could be accomplished in the ancient art of storytelling that has not already been done well, several times over? In his latest tweak of pain, Spider Moon cuts right to where the rubber meets the road: â€œYouâ€™re just about perfect from neck to knees, baby!â€ Strap down and strap on for the ride.
Destilado de CÃ©rebro de Zumbi	by Rynaldo Papoy Nov. 13, 2011	You set the price!	28715 words	Sample 20%
Contos estranhos.
Highway	by Donald O'Donovan Nov. 02, 2011	$4.99	59204 words
Highway is the road trip you always imagined but never took; mile after mile is marked with candid observations, outlandish circumstances and insights that define the American experience.
In Dreamtime - the Illustrated Nobody Dick	by Will Lorimer Oct. 17, 2011	$3.99	98895 words	Sample 30%
the secrets of a tibetan trickster and master thief, learned by his hapless scottish apprentice, as they blaze an unstoppable trail through the boondocks of the australian dreamtime.
This Dross	by W. B. Emerson Oct. 02, 2011	$0.99	2955 words	Sample 30%
What happens when an upper middle class couple has everything but happiness? In the case of Henry and Carla Belanger, a fire happens. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area, "This Dross" is a story about love lost.
119	by Fisher Thompson Sep. 19, 2011	$0.99	71094 words	Sample 10%
The world is spiraling out of control and one man is caught in the spin, swirling around and down into the eternally violent maelstrom. His job was outmoded and downsized out of existence. His house destroyed in a bomb blast. Now his only remaining joy, the love and attentions of the fairer sex, has taken a hard left down a dark terrifying alley dropping him at a dead end. What next, death?
A Down Home Feeling	by Harry McDonald Sep. 14, 2011	$0.99	3486 words	Sample 40%
In the middle of a torrid summer, Mason's world is turned upside down by squatters on his land. An ignorant head of a family, a man-boy with an unnerving stare, and an unhelpful sheriff's deputy make A Down Home Feeling a memorable read in the Southern Gothic tradition.
Nobody Dick in Dreamtime	by Will Lorimer Sep. 14, 2011	$2.99	98803 words	Sample 30%
the secrets of a tibetan trickster and master thief, learned by his hapless scottish apprentice as they blaze an unstoppable trail through the boondocks of the australian dreamtime.
Books of Daniel	by Zoe E. Whitten Sep. 01, 2011	$2.99	89929 words	Sample 20%
Daniel Rafferty is an apartment handyman and ex-con who helps a pair of delinquents living in his complex. His efforts to straighten out Patrick and Matt Campbell also draw the interest of their sister Miranda. Her interest grows as she learns that Daniel is a writer. Miranda thinks falling in love is no big deal, but Daniel knows better. But even knowing the truth, he still can't push her away.
Switch (bdsm story.02)	by Jess C Scott Aug. 09, 2011	$2.99	12621 words	Sample 8%
Summary: Christopher Creme and Kaja Kunis switch things up by switching D/s roles in their relationship. * * * Genre = contemporary fiction with non-graphic BDSM elements. Explores the psychosexual themes of BDSM (gender + role identity). * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott.
We Were Fish: Collected Poetry	by J M McDermott Aug. 08, 2011	$2.99	24017 words	Sample 20%
The weird, goofy, charming, anti-traditional, anti-academic, scathing, political, apolitical and sometimes transcendental poetry, prose poetry and odd-thoughts-on-paper of critically-acclaimed fantasy novelist J M McDermott have appeared in many magazines, his blog, and a few anthologies. Included here is the Rhysling Award-nominated "3 Poems Called Cosmic".
Halfway to the Stars	by Marcy Sheiner Aug. 05, 2011	$4.99	97615 words	Sample 20%
Rachel Max leaves her small Vermont town for California seeking adventure, and gets more than she bargained for in her job as reporter for an online sex journal. Making her way through a maze of sex parties, sex workers, and sex-positive radicals, Rachel discovers that an adventurous life is more complicated than she'd imagined.
All Lies and Jest	by Kate Harrad July 30, 2011	$4.99	66298 words	Sample 20%
All Lies and Jest, by Kate Harrad, is a counter-culture thriller with thick veins of dark humour. It highlights the dangers of suggestibility, and includes lettuce-eating vampires, mad Cultists, Flat Earthers, were-mosquitos, psychopaths, and more corpses than youâ€™d expect on a pleasant evening out.
Apples and Self-Interview - two stories	by Richard K. Weems July 29, 2011	$0.99	4621 words	Sample 50%
The Cheap Stories series--short eBooks, cheap as hell. The struggle for identity is a constant fight, but what if you can't remember your identity in the first place? In the first story, a man with little memory makes some discoveries about himself. But will those discoveries hold? In the second, an author interviews himself to find out why he writes such strange stories.
Soil	by Miracle Jones July 13, 2011	$4.00	47612 words	Sample 10%
Ten short stories from the blog "This Rocketship Will Crash," including "Fear Boys With Dolls," "Dinner Pro," "The Super Secret International American Time Box," "Doolers," "The Goods," "Tower of Silence," "We Have All Been Hurt by Television Actors," "Gene Smoke," "Famous People Don't Care," and "How to Get Laid for Zero Dollars and Zero Cents"
Oz - One of Ten	by Jack Reynolds July 13, 2011	$4.99	67920 words	Sample 20%
â€œIt would be better for you to cut it off than to use it to destroy the lives of your or our children. There shall be neither forgiveness nor mercy.â€- a paraphrase of biblical proportion. Ten ordinary men become extraordinary with angelic help as avenging angels save the innocent. The author adds thought-provoking information and startling statistics to highlight this huge problem.
Seed	by Miracle Jones July 12, 2011	$4.00	28089 words	Sample 20%
This short story collection includes: "Oh Boy," "Fuckchanged," "Always Rape the Last Coke Machine," "A Tense Situation and a Chainsaw," "The Famous and Expensive Breathing Technique," "The Polecat," "Leaner," "Role-Playing Game," "Wedding Toast," and "Yes, We Have Those"
The Velvet Rope (bdsm story.05)	by Jess C Scott July 09, 2011	$2.99	17550 words	Sample 8%
Summary (novelette): A disenchanted lady boss recruits a personal toy boy, before the complexities of a recent divorce send her completely over the edge. * * * Genre = contemporary fiction with non-graphic BDSM elements. Explores the psychosexual themes of S/M and mild erotic asphyxiation. * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott.
11 Pearls How To Get Everything You Want In Life	by Charles Steed June 25, 2011	$4.77	6439 words	Sample 20%
A destitute young man experiences a remarkable life transformation through his association with a stranger. Is the stranger simply a kind person or is he an angel?
Self-Sustaining	by J. Daniel Sawyer June 20, 2011	$0.99	3860 words	Sample 30%
Theo is virtually a monk, but although denies himself pleasures of the flesh, he is not so stingy with his hospitality. Tonight, he hosts dinner with his chief researcher who's just made one of the biggest breakthroughs in history--surely, the occasion for the greatest hospitality he's ever shown. It has never occurred to him that there can be too much of a good thing. His guest isn't so sure.
Bee Week	by Benjamin Graves June 16, 2011	$1.99	48844 words	Sample 15%
In this comedy-horror satire on both Marxism and American consumerism, the small Chicago suburb of Lake Wood is the center of crisis, a typical family-friendly community, with one large peculiarity: A mysterious bee research facility in the midst of its residents. Steffen is a student on the verge of graduating when things go chaotic involving a mind-controlling virus and a new risen resistance.
The Carnage Motel	by Deran Ludd June 13, 2011	Free!	9465 words	Read a sample
A winter wonderland of desperation, need and want in a snowbound motel room in eastern Oregon.
Sex with Lucifer	by George Simeran May 25, 2011	$0.99	78291 words	Sample 20%
Sex and drugs lubricate this hot and wicked tome about a Lost Generation of well-to-do libertines in post-9/11 Los Angeles.
Teacher's Pet (bdsm story.04)	by Jess C Scott May 17, 2011	$2.99	13584 words	Sample 8%
Summary (novella): A truant student gets her lecturerâ€™s signature--and more--when she needs an official form signed. * * * * Genre = contemporary fiction with non-graphic BDSM elements. Writing style = simple/understated (a bit like Hemingway). * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott.
Principia Dischordia and the Scent of the Locust	by Blake Ryder May 10, 2011	$2.99	6499 words	Sample 20%
Amongst the parade of souls waiting for entry into the heavenly host is a Goth girl, an emo suicide: lost, blackened by humanity's excesses and despairing of God. As she suicided, St. Peter can't grant her entry into heaven. Unless... in the rush of souls on Judgement Day, one entered heaven that shouldn't be there. One vile soul snuck in and is loose amongst the innocents, intent to devour them.
Baroque Majesty of the Tortured She-Male	by Blake Ryder May 10, 2011	$2.99	4593 words	Sample 20%
Set in a future Totalitarian Christian Theocracy, Blake Ryder's bizarre, Gothic fantasy is a sexual, violent meditation on the pathological perversity of the Christian religion's view of gender and bodily boundaries. A Priest, head torturer, torments and molests a helpless she-male, determined to please God by erasing gender ambiguity from the human trans-ssexual form, repressing his own urges.
The Rabbi's Books	by Nancy Reil Riojas May 07, 2011	Free!	2632 words	Read a sample
Feeling robbed that schools did not teach the Jewish Holocaust, 30 years later she lives to see it happen.
Punktuation	by Teri-Louise Kelly May 04, 2011	$5.99	51911 words	Sample 15%
The Life and Death of Gutter Art. Reaching out across the bleached white veldt to infect the flickering screen with a moment of insanity, Teri Louise Kellyâ€™s short story/poetry anthology â€˜Punktuationâ€™ is a literary oil slick drifting slowly toward the burning shore.
Charlie	by The Sinner Glynn April 13, 2011	Free!	82043 words	Read a sample
You can run all you like. You can drink all you like. Smoke all you like. Snort all you like. Sometimes, drugs just aren't enough. Sometimes, the pain never goes away. Sometimes, your past never goes away.
Nana: A Thanksgiving Memory (Cough Syrup Testimonial #23)	by Buddy Lee April 11, 2011	$0.99	1894 words	Sample 30%
Grandma's house smelled of bountiful food and immanent death. A boy explores his nanaâ€™s medicine cabinet hoping to discover medicine from the days of old. He discovers a medicine as old as man, yet improved upon as only man could. Semi-synthetic codeine! Truly, this was a day to be thankful.
Sighphen	by Justin Martinez March 30, 2011	$0.99	50003 words	Sample 20%
The dysfunctional Kalin family has enough problems -- an off-balance legal career, an affair, a senile grandfather, an unruly child -- without gutterpunk revolutionaries, a hacker's stolen bank account, a Chicago Mayoral conspiracy and combat robots entering the mix.
The Novahistine DH Story or How I Became Addicted to Codeine Laced Over-the-Counter Cough Syrup (Not to Mention Powdered Opium, Demerol, and Hydrocodone)	by Buddy Lee March 27, 2011	$2.99	2789 words	Sample 30%
Cough Syrup: it's not just for breakfast anymore.
Pulling Teeth	by Alan Ryker March 22, 2011	$2.99	24053 words	Sample 20%
Writing fiction can be like pulling teeth: difficult, painful and bloody. In Pulling Teeth, Alan Ryker presents six stories yanked from his mind like rotten molars. It contains both new and previously published stories that will challenge your conceptions of horror, literary fiction and the dark spaces in between.

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