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A Huckster's Paradise    by Michael Antoniak
Price: $5.00 USD. 142770 words. Published on May 12, 2010. .

All Jack Schlitz wants is a second chance at success. When he finds it, as a purveyor of “natural products” with his partners in MacNatural Organics, it proves a velvet prison he half-heartedly longs to escape. Along the way to his epiphany, and beyond, the novel presents a comic view of one microcosm of our marketing-driven consumer culture, where all that really matters is a sale.
The Novagem    by Jon Thorpe
Price: Free! 3290 words. Published on June 6, 2010. .

An odd young man is smitten by an antique store clerk. During one of his awkward attempts at wooing her, the young man comes across a book on the 1915 San Francisco Pan-Pacific Exposition that will overturn his notion of reality and inspire him to join forces with a secret organization hell-bent on proving that the sun is not a star.
Literature of the Absurd    by John Northern
Price: $1.99 USD. 48510 words. Published on September 19, 2010. .

The title is self-explanatory. These short stories are absolutely ridiculous.
Dirt    by JC Andrijeski
Price: $0.99 USD. 12810 words. Published by White Sun Press  on January 13, 2011. .

Due to an untimely mishap with a runaway piano, a thief and a homeless lady with a very pointy umbrella, Harold gets to know some of his neighbors living in a single tree planter box on a New York City Street.
Doodling    by Jonathan Gould
Price: $0.99 USD. 18000 words. Published on February 6, 2011. .

After Neville Lansdowne falls off the world (because it's moving too fast), he finds himself adrift in an asteroid field full of eccentric characters and experiences some most unexpected adventures. Douglas Adams meets Lewis Carroll (with just a touch of Gulliver’s Travels) in this engaging comic fantasy.
Blue Food and other menu items, a collection of short stories    by Ken La Salle
Price: $2.95 USD. 18560 words. Published on April 5, 2011. .

The works of Ken La Salle range from the bizarre to the whimsical and even further beyond still. In Blue Food and other menu items, Ken La Salle treats you to a dozen tales, hilarious and deeply strange.
Evertime & Evermore, a collection of poetry    by Ken La Salle
Price: $2.95 USD. 7070 words. Published on April 8, 2011. .

In Evertime, my love was lost upon a fallen shore... and here I wait, awaiting Evertime and Evermore. In Evertime and Evermore, playwright and author Ken La Salle collects some of his favorite poems for the first time.
Henry Fuckit Kills Time    by Ian Martin
Price: $0.99 USD. 25940 words. Published on April 19, 2011. .

When Henry blunders into the job of storeman in the Simonstown naval dockyard, he has no intention of doing any work. But he finds no one expects him to lift a finger. To alleviate the boredom of a futile existence Henry and his indolent colleagues while away the hours by drinking Vrotters, engaging in pseudophilosophical discussion and quasi scientific research using misappropriated naval stores.
The Screen    by Phillip Donnelly
Price: $2.99 USD. 88960 words. Published on May 15, 2011. .

David Vincent is a man at war: at war with the office; at war with himself; and at war with the screen that stares into his eyes. A dark force in the Ministry of the Environment’s ‘Rainbow Building’, he secretly fights green hypocrisy, radioactive civil service jargon and the machinations of his ambitious supervisor. David is a hero for our age: the last man in the office.
The Overwhelming Urge    by Andersen Prunty
Price: $3.99 USD. 25380 words. Published by Grindhouse Press  on June 14, 2011. .

It is a world where men wake up with laser beams for eyes and wives play sadistic practical jokes. It is a world where body parts randomly fall off and fathers turn into antelopes. THE OVERWHELMING URGE is a collection of bizarro flash fiction, containing ridiculous characters and absurd stories reminiscent of David Lynch a