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No Free Lunches by Jeffrey Somogyi
Price: Free! 1880 words.
Language: English. Published on June 30, 2011. Fiction » Humor & comedy » General.
The worst problems in the world could be solved ... if all the scientists weren't busy. This super-short story is a tale of science gone mad (with flavor)!
Plantgirl by M. Pax
Price: Free! 5160 words.
Language: English. Published on June 30, 2011. Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary.
(5.00 from 12 reviews)
Ba Rainy's life comes under new management. She's hopeful to gain some super powers or some sort of miracle from the Miracle Gro in her shoes. Short fiction. About 1300 words. Contemporary fantasy. Free.
Translations by M. Pax
Price: Free! 5010 words.
Language: English. Published on June 30, 2011. Fiction » Fantasy » Historical.
(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Nora Elliott must decipher the ruins to save the man she loves. Will the magic she unearths grant her the love she craves? Short story, about 1200 words. Fantasy. Steampunk. Romance. Free.
SIRAT-E-HABIBULLAH (pbuh) by Dr. Yamin Memon
Price: Free! 18030 words.
Language: English. Published on June 30, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Religious biography.
Brief, easy to read and ready reckoner type biography of the holy prophet Mohmmed (pbuh). In easy simple English. With emphasis on his noble character and moral, birth, youth, preaching, married life, diplomacy, military caliber, the last sermon and heavenly abode.
The Fall of the Illistarta by David Goodall
Price: Free! 5570 words.
Language: English. Published on June 30, 2011. Fiction » Fantasy » Epic.
(2.00 from 1 review)
In a fantasy world, a journal is found describing events either real or myth about a nation known only as the Illistarta and how they came to be forgotten. A man once known as Quillis Olgatin is haunted by his guilty secret.
Small Graces by M. Pax
Price: Free! 4880 words.
Language: English. Published on June 30, 2011. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
(4.50 from 8 reviews)
Grace crash lands on an alien world to discover she's not alone. Short science fiction story. About 1100 words. Free.
Tea with Emma (Book One of the Teacup Novellas) by Diane Moody
Price: Free! 30180 words.
Language: English. Published on June 30, 2011. Fiction » Drama » American.
Fresh from a Jane Austen tour in England, Maddie Cooper returns home to Texas, determined to bring a touch of “Austen to Austin.” She dreams of opening an authentic English tea room and, like Austen’s Emma, use her self-proclaimed gift as a matchmaker. When a cranky Englishman moves in across the street is he the perfect match for someone else, or has Maddie finally found true love?
Verruca Music by Stuart Estell
Price: Free! 13200 words.
Language: English. Published by eight cuts gallery press on June 30, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Absurdist comedy of the very blackest kind, informed by a love of James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Peter Cook & The Goon Show. Featuring the Fibonacci sequence, floors that open up without warning, a powerful laxative, and a duvet that periodically changes colour, Verruca Music charts the narrator’s emergence from a state of fearful near-immobility assisted only by entertainments of his own devising
Where That Came From is Anybody's Guess by Sarah Rebecca Kelly
Price: Free! 2000 words.
Language: English. Published on June 30, 2011. Nonfiction » Biography » Literary biography.
(3.00 from 1 review)
Young Herbie carried a club and knew how to sway opinions. At twelve years old, he was the leader of a gang of homeless street rascals. He told us that among the grocery cart pushers The Candle Lighter Shelter was considered 'the lesserof all evils'.