The One That Got Away    by Edward M. Grant
Price: $0.99 USD. 3600 words. Language: English. Published by Banchixi Media on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure.
My uncle has some tall tales, but this one is a whopper. Time travel, aliens and fishing in a space suit? I'll believe it when I see it.

Third Horseman (An Uncle Mylar Adventure)    by G. F. Hellstern
Price: $0.99 USD. 2210 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Christian » Short stories.
Uncle Mylar tells the story of his search for Jacob's Ladder and the Third Horseman of the Apocalypse. The lesson he teaches his curious nephew deals with the mystery found in Revelation.

Insane Possibilities    by Jeffrey Miska
Price: Free! 15300 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Drama » American.
A short story about a vivacious young physicist and mathematician named Kristine, who has devoted her life to science. Hallucinations cause her to seek help from a social worker named Paul and she's terrified when she hears a questionable diagnosis of schizophrenia. Her path leads her to a place where perspective is all that's real, and sanity is nothing more than the limit of what we believe.

Alaris. Episode Two: Struggle    by M.J. Baker
Price: $0.99 USD. 7310 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Military.
The second episode of a series of short stories. The Alaris nebula is home to over a million people and is struggling under relentless pirate attacks. When a fighter squadron goes missing it's up to burnt out veteran Marack Nor and the rest of his squadron to discover the truth and live long enough to make it back home.

One Plus One Makes Me    by Ray Daley
Price: Free! 1370 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
Is a prison with no bars still a prison? Or is the mind the worst prison of all? Worse than the sentance of being completely alone?

Three Flash Stories    by Marshall Payne
Price: $0.99 USD. 2600 words. Language: English. Published on May 22, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.
Three flash pieces of SF and fantasy. 1. An alternate America where comic-books are taught and the Classics are shunned. 2. How Baron Veontes brought Valentine's Day to the world of Aquaveritie. 3. A time-travel experiment that goes horribly wrong.

Legends of Peace    by H.L. Armstrong
Price: $2.99 USD. 7980 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories.
The earth is dying. To save it, a young woman searches a strange world with its own kind of dangers for the one man capable of stopping the destruction. Joining her is a wise-cracking dove who she doesn’t really know if she can trust. But then again, nothing is the way it should be here.

Though All the Mountains Lie Between    by Jeffrey A. Carver
Price: Free! 12850 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
When star pilot Jael rebels against an abusive captain and flies the "mountain route" through the Flux, she dismisses a legend claiming that dragons lurk waiting for unwary riggers. But appear they do, challenging Jael to a fight to the death. This short story is the basis for the novel Dragons in the Stars (available in the omnibus Dragon Space). 9000 words, plus excerpt from Dragon Space.

Harvest for Hell    by David J. Agostine
Price: Free! 2160 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Horror » Occult.
The year is 2021 and something sinister is going on at the country's leading cancer hospital. One doctor discovers a secret that will shatter his world and pave the way for invasion.

Old Wounds    by Michael D. Britton
Price: $2.99 USD. 4730 words. Language: English. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.
Colonizing the moon is hazardous work...made more dangerous by political bickering back on Earth. Now Jack Chang must face either the starvation of the colony he leads, or the deadly terror threat posed by his former Marine buddy who's trying to extort the government and keep the colony alive. Some choice.