A Boy Named Shawn    by Robert Beard
Price: $5.00 USD. 29500 words. Published by CyPress Publications on August 11, 2010. .
After Shawn’s parents die in a plane crash, he goes to Florida to meet a man whom his mother dated when she was a student at Florida State University. He agrees to become Shawn’s guardian. By mistake, Shawn plays in a college football game and becomes an overnight sensation. The remarkably intelligent boy develops an idea for a new source of electrical power that makes gas engines obsolete.

On a Darkling Plain    by R.P. Burnham
Price: $3.99 USD. 116780 words. Published by The Wessex Collective  on March 16, 2012. .
Samuel Jellerson, 56 and forced into early retirement, is walking in the woods behind the family farm in Maine one fall day when he witnesses a priest molesting a boy. From this one event all the action in the novel follows and draws a wide cross section of the town into a theme that explores the nature of evil and its antidote empathy, the force that creates community, and fellow-feeling.