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Midnight Baseball    by Bob Pajich
Price: $0.99 USD. 3150 words. Language: American English. Published by Mendicant Bookworks  on April 7, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

Brilliantly showcasing one of the lone, remaining adolescent rites-of-passage -- a boy's first beer -- "Midnight Baseball" chronicles a fathers-and-sons fishing trip that quickly devolves into cards and drunken revelry. Mendicant Bookworks presents literary short fiction by Bob Pajich.
No Time To Die    by John Blandly
Price: $0.99 USD. 3690 words. Language: English. Published on April 17, 2013. Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled.

A murder case getting harder to solve every minute—just the way detective Ollie Reed didn't like it. Plus, he had to deal with curvy Sally Derivadose—his client—the main suspect.
River Rats and Other Stories    by Gideon Fleisher
Price: $0.99 USD. 18840 words. Language: English. Published on March 6, 2012. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

A collection of short stories by Gideon Fleisher. Titles include: River Rats, A Day in the Life, Maple Leafs, Eat at Curly's, Lights, Life as a Book, Sheepskin, and A Trip to Seoul, plus Who Was That, a poem.
The Watch    by Moonbeam McQueen
Price: $1.99 USD. 6220 words. Language: English. Published on January 28, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Coming of age.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Eleven-year-old Angel is trying to maneuver her increasingly messy childhood. Her mother's husband hunting, the nuns at school are mean; there's a steady stream of potential new step-parents. There's also her father, Ray. He's an awful parent, but Angel holds out hope that he'll change. The hope grows stronger when he hints of buying her a special gift, one that could transform her entire life.
Charactered Pieces: stories    by Caleb J. Ross
Price: $2.99 USD. 16640 words. Language: English. Published by OW Press  on January 29, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

(4.00 from 4 reviews)
These are stories of hope amid the Zoloft and bar tabs that cushion our crumbling lives.
Murmurs: Gathered Stories Vol. One    by Caleb J. Ross
Price: $2.99 USD. 16310 words. Language: English. Published by OW Press  on October 24, 2011. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

0.5 star(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Murmurs: Gathered Stories Vol. One brings together nine previously published stories hand selected to best represent the darkness prevalent in much of Caleb J. Ross’ fiction. Deformities, parenthood, childhood, each treated with literary integrity, come together to map the visceral, gut-wrenching side of family life.
A Small Season of Magic    by Linda Hall
Price: $1.99 USD. 12300 words. Language: English. Published on January 10, 2013. Fiction » Literature » Literary.

A Small Season of Magic is not a mystery, yet it contains mystery. It is about school friends and bullying and brokenness and yet it’s not. It’s about life and death and love. It’s exceedingly sad, and yet hopeful at the same time. And like its name suggests, it’s about magic.
The Princess in the Armory    by Sheela Word
Price: $0.99 USD. 11210 words. Language: English. Published on March 14, 2013. Fiction » Romance » Historical.

(3.00 from 1 review)
"As ginger seasons sauce, so doth jesting quicken colloquy." Princess Theresa's best friend is her cousin Mark. Both are studious and quiet. When Mark returns from University, however, she finds him changed. His friend, Prince Lateef, no doubt, has led him astray. Lateef is too handsome and charming to be trustworthy. Theresa represents Enneagram Type 5. (Short story, 10,370 words)
The Rock Star in the Mirror (or, How David Bowie Ruined My Life)    by Sharon E. Cathcart
Price: $1.29 USD. 6210 words. Language: English. Published on October 24, 2012. Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author.

0.5 star(4.40 from 5 reviews)
Joe is a small-town Oregon guy. He's madly in love with Lynnie ... who has a huge crush on David Bowie. Joe will do almost anything to get Lynnie's attention, but there are always consequences.