Underneath    by Kealan Patrick Burke
Price: $1.99 USD. 9640 words. Language: English. Published on December 19, 2010. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General.
(5.00 from 8 reviews)
For Dean, it begins with a dare, one that comes with the threat of violence if he chickens out. All he has to do is date Stephanie Watts, a disfigured girl who is the pariah at their high school. Dean agrees, and soon discovers that there is much more to Stephanie Watts than anyone dared imagine, and deadlier secrets awaiting him...underneath. A free short story from the author of THE TURTLE BOY

Dont Ever Change    by John H. Carroll
Price: $0.99 USD. 7280 words. Language: English. Published on February 24, 2011. Fiction » Horror » General.
(4.70 from 10 reviews)
High school: a time of memories, good and bad. Students get together to sign each other’s yearbooks. “Don’t Ever Change” is a common phrase. What would happen if one of those students never did change? How would that student feel about it? Would it make them happy, sad or psychotic? How would you feel if you had never changed from that young teenager in high school?

They Don't Exist    by J.R. Leckman
Price: Free! 3880 words. Language: English. Published on December 16, 2010. Fiction » Horror » General.
(4.54 from 13 reviews)
A young woman laughs it off when she's informed the room she's staying in for the night is haunted, because ghosts don't exist. Or do they?

The Part-Time People    by Tom Lichtenberg
Price: Free! 16180 words. Language: English. Published on November 25, 2009. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
(3.00 from 3 reviews)
DeBarrie's Stationery Store needed help again. Somehow, the part-time people never worked out. It was a problem. One after another, the part-time people came and went, and sometimes, nobody ever found out what happened to them. The newest one seemed even more hopeless than usual. His job application announced "there's a man who follows me around and ruins everything I try to do".

The Night Walk Men    by Jason McIntyre
Price: Free! 8860 words. Language: English. Published on August 5, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
(4.96 from 25 reviews)
Three-year old Gabriela plays with her twin brother on a train platform. Blind sax man, Braille the Rail, meets with an old, old friend. The earth rumbles beneath them all: the promise of an approaching locomotive. Now, two mysterious strangers, both of them acting in the interest of an otherworldly sense of duty, will decide their fate over a cup of tea.

The Last Rakosh    by F. Paul Wilson
Price: Free! 15070 words. Language: English. Published on May 23, 2010. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General.
(4.60 from 5 reviews)
The perfect intro to Repairman Jack. What? You don't know Jack? Where've you been? Stephen King declared himself "President of the Repairman Jack Fan Club." Dean Koontz called Jack "one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction." Joe Lansdale said, "No one does this kind of weird meets crime better than Wilson." Here's your chance to know Jack - free!

Road Markers    by Jason McIntyre
Price: Free! 7850 words. Language: English. Published on August 2, 2010. Fiction » Literature » Literary.
(4.80 from 15 reviews)
Dean is a forty-something sales rep for a company that ropes small, mostly blue-collar firms into long term cellphone plans. Heading home from a bad meeting, he begins to see evidence that he can will things to happen just by thinking about them. But will this tantalizing realization lead him to cross the line for good?

Gloria    by David Sartof
Price: Free! 5310 words. Language: English. Published on February 7, 2010. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller.
(4.88 from 16 reviews)
I’m dying, well that’s what I’ve been told. How has my life come to this: death, betrayal, friendship, love? Yes, love. I know it’s there somewhere, but I’m struggling to make sense of things. How can I, Oliver Beaton-Court, be here in this cabin, looking at my dead wife and holding an axe… Maybe Tom can give me the answers I need, or maybe there are no answers…

The Accidental Existentialist    by Joshua Graham
Price: Free! 13770 words. Language: English. Published by Dawn Treader Press on August 16, 2010. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.
(4.55 from 20 reviews)
US Marine Corps Criminal Investigations Division agent stages his death to go dark and take on the head of a Russian Crime Syndicate, perpetrators of illegal arms dealing, human trafficking and the death of his first born son. Action-packed and filled with more twists than the Coney Island Cyclone, this story asks: How far would a good man go to rid the world of evil and avenge his son?

Regent    by Amanda Shepherd
Price: Free! 15580 words. Language: English. Published on January 21, 2009. Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General.
(4.50 from 4 reviews)
Tegan journeys on a search for her missing son and husband. What she encounters is beyond words. Where are all the young people and families?Why has this town the appearance of a 1960's tourist brochure and where is her son? As Tegan deicides to stay the night in Regency hotel, she finds it impossible to leave. Follow Tegan on her thrilling and suspense filled entrapment in REGENT.