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Paying Taxes, American Style    by C.D. Reimer
Price: $0.99 USD. 2320 words. Published on April 2, 2011. .

With 15 minutes on the clock until the courthouse closes for the weekend, Leticia is all alone at the front desk and deep into her brodice-ripper paperback when an old man walks in to pay the taxes that he owe—in pennies, no less—and then some. A battle of wits unfolds between a love-starved government worker and a determined taxpayer.
CDR: Government    by M.T. Bass
Price: $0.99 USD. 3290 words. Published on July 13, 2012. .

Government is not a big mystery. It is not even unique to us human beings. Wolves hunt in packs and caribou migrate in herds. Fish school. Even insects swarm and live in “colonies.” Why? 1) Protection from threats and harm 2) Acquiring the basic necessities of life It's not rocket science. It's nature. Leave it to human nature, though, to pervert it. But that would be poltics.
Saviors of the Bugle    by Barbara Elmore
Price: $2.99 USD. 53880 words. Published on February 2, 2013. .

Unfazed by ridicule, rumors and danger, Wendy Wright rounds up her two best friends and other classmates to help pull the town's only newspaper, the Bugle, from the brink of financial collapse. The task is not an easy one for a band of teenagers, especially when the newspaper's biggest foe has a dark side that no one knows about. Wendy's actions make headlines, and not all of them are good.