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Cameo the Assassin    by Dawn McCullough White
Price: $0.99 USD. 57350 words. Published on June 12, 2010. .

~Sometimes the anti-hero is the only hero you can find. Scarred and jaded Cameo is one of the most formidable assassins in the employ of the Association. She moves from one mission to the next as long as the alcohol keeps flowing, until the day she meets two dashing highwaymen who unwittingly throw in with the dangerous and otherworldly Cameo. But that's really where the story begins...
Orc in the Family    by Michael Jasper
Price: $0.99 USD. 2530 words. Published on December 30, 2010. .

"It always rains here in the heart of the Sludge Mountains." Humans aren't the only creatures who must deal with unappreciative offspring and housing problems, not to mention bad backs and body odor. Our hero, once a member of the Orkish Army, has his hands full with his family. Is it so wrong for an elderly orc to try to get some rest after a hard life? And still the rain falls...
Rook: Allie's War, Book One    by JC Andrijeski
Price: $4.99 USD. 153890 words. Published by White Sun Press  on January 9, 2011. .

28-year-old San Francisco native, Allie Taylor, at least thought she was human. But when she meets her first real seer, a race of human-like beings discovered in the 1900s, he tells her that not only is she a seer, like him, but that all the other seers believe she's going to end the world. Unfortunately, no matter what she does, everything that happens after that only seems to prove him right.
Claustrum: Part Two in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61290 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Claustrum, a superhero with a strange power, the ability to control people with strange, elegiac mixtures of words, seemingly randomly shows up in the city of Dioma, not knowing where he came from or why he is there. The city is then beleaguered by the cruel villain Sine Animus, who is immune to Claustrum's powers over words. Claustrum flees the city and is forced to seek his own personal truth.
Crossed Genres Year Two    by Crossed Genres Publications 
Price: $2.99 USD. 57920 words. Published on April 10, 2011. .

A labor conflict on a distant asteroid; An environmental catastrophe unlike any other; A most unusual dinner guest; The irony of Luck. 12 stories selected from the second year of Crossed Genres: the magazine of Science Fiction & Fantasy with a twist!
The Player: Life is a Gamble    by Robert Ross
Price: $2.99 USD. 15330 words. Published on July 22, 2011. .

"The Player, Life is a Gamble," is the first in a series of flash-fiction books of stories 2-3 pages in length, featuring: The Player - the consummate classy gambler. The James Bond of the casino. A man in search of action in a life on the edge, filled with risks . . . and rewards.
T is for Time    by Paul Vayro
Price: Free! 90870 words. Published on August 24, 2011. .

When aliens attempt to take over the Earth, by freezing time and stealing all the tea and coffee, two hapless misfits are charged with saving humanity. This is the first in a continuing series following Brick and Spiritwind's adventures. The sequel, Unintended Heroes, will be available soon.
The Capable Man    by Marc Hamlet
Price: $2.99 USD. 88090 words. Published by Novel Concept Publishing LLC  on October 27, 2011. .

Far from his homeworld, Justin Maisling was desperate for a fresh start, and Aki Spaceworks knew that a desperate man will do just about anything.
Gun Battle LA (Gunz Action Series)    by Kenneth Guthrie
Price: $2.99 USD. 7560 words. Published by Lunatic Ink Publishing  on November 7, 2011. .

Gunz, Glock – two killers or renown – face off in LA in a hot shot battle of the best. The reaper will get a good feeding tonight as they take it to the streets of LA using everything in their arsenals – TEC-9s, Glocks, Smith and Wessons and one very special piece – to succeed in their goal: Killing each other! Action from beginning to end. This is one for the Gunz fans.
Mixtape for the Apocalypse    by Jemiah Jefferson
Price: $2.99 USD. 65760 words. Published on December 26, 2011. .

From the author of Voice of the Blood comes a terrifyingly funny new tale of Michael Squire, twenty-three, nerdy as hell, and losing his mind in the face of a hilariously hostile world. Fortunately he's got his favorite Eighties music close at hand...