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The Waltz-A Dramatic Poem    by China Doll
Price: $9.95 USD. 17060 words. Published on April 3, 2010. .

Gilgamesh, being of Sumerian descent, has grown tired of his life of luxury and excess in heaven and decides to leave heaven after dreaming about finding a perfect lover. The following pages describe Gilgamesh’s attempt to find this lover on Earth and of the people that he meets during his adventures.
Desperate Times    by Nicholas Antinozzi
Price: $2.99 USD. 112880 words. Published on April 4, 2010. .

Jimmy Logan wakes up to find that the dollar has crashed. There is a run on the banks and they quickly close their doors. People panic as other businesses follow suit. Fortunately, Jimmy has friends who have built their "house of bricks" and have invited him to stay with them. They soon learn that the woods is full of wolves; desperate people, prepared to do anything to feed their families.
A Measure of Disorder    by Alan Tucker
Price: Free! 90740 words. Published on April 30, 2010. .

Join Jenni Kershaw and her classmates as they are whisked away to a world full of life, adventure, and danger. One which reshapes each of them by its vision of their soul. Some accept it, some fight it, all wonder: will that vision control their destiny? The class find themselves pitted against a powerful evil — and each other — all while trying to discover who, and what, they really are.
In the Valley stories    by Philip van Wulven
Price: $1.99 USD. 20630 words. Published on May 13, 2010. .

These short stories will take you away, down into the valley and up again to soar over the mountains. Most are set in Africa, in the ancient bush, with people interacting with the animals, the birds and the spirits.
Escape from Fort McCain    by Richard Marman
Price: $1.99 USD. 88580 words. Published by john Halsted on June 25, 2010. .

Fort McCain, New Mexico at the turn of the 20th C. and an investigation into the death of an Indian. Flashback forty years to the murder of a soldier at Ft McCain. Two men on the run join a gang of renegades but this is too much for them and instead they help the victims of the gang. After a fight, the two take off with two Mexican beauties with the law and the renegades firmly on their trail.
Herman Bylles testamente    by Gustav Stålhammar
Price: $4.99 USD. 121360 words. Published on July 14, 2010. .

På sitt etthundrasjätte levnadsår får Herman Bylle veta att han har en okänd son och dotter. I den åldern har man inte tid att tveka. Beslutsamt dammar han av sitt gamla skrivbord och börjar skriva sitt testamente. Han berättar om sin ungdoms stora äventyr. Om sin resa genom 1920-talets Sverige. Förklarar varför han blev en enstöring. Sätter omsorgsfullt sitt märkliga liv på pränt.
Lucky to be Alive    by Luke King
Price: Free! 1230 words. Published on July 15, 2010. .

A beautiful day. Blue sky. Calm water. Does Tom want to take a boat out? Of course he does. But why is the boy asking Tom? Who is he? And why does he want to row them out to sea?
Wanderings, Reflections of a Wilderness Nomad    by David Gafney
Price: $9.95 USD. 63770 words. Published on September 9, 2010. .

It was as if God had called and asked if I would like to try out heaven for a few months. But it wasn't really God; it was the chief naturalist at Zion National Park on the phone offering me a seasonal position. That call led to 15 years of blissful wanderings around the U. S., living and working in federal wilderness areas and in such diverse national parks as Yellowstone and the Smokey Mountains
The First Tale    by Icy Sedgwick
Price: $0.99 USD. 14360 words. Published on September 13, 2010. .

The Vertigo City Resistance is pitted against the shadowy Weimar Corporation. Their stalemate is broken by the death of an infiltrator. The fiery Resistance Commander Liss Hunt and bewildered companion Philip Wiseman set off on a journey into both organisations to discover the truth behind who runs Vertigo. The First Tale is an action adventure featuring automatons, mad scientists and explosions!
Secret of the Sands    by Rai Aren & Tavius E.
Price: $2.99 USD. 116700 words. Published on November 13, 2010. .

For 12,000 years a dark and deadly secret has been hidden deep below the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, two archaeologists discover mysterious artifacts belonging to an unknown civilization. A frightening and awe-inspiring story unravels as the archaeologists race against time to decipher the dangerous knowledge they hold…