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I BE DAMN    by Gusdavis Aughtry
Price: Free! 9020 words. Published on June 1, 2009. .

Cal Wallace is ocked into an unhappy marriage. His brothers feel his pain. Cal develops early alzheimers. In an uncanny sequence of events, with all the sugary existence and proper behavior that the South exhudes, Mary Lou Wallace puts her husband away. The brothers discover that their brother Cal is less gone "south" than thought.
The Misplaced Battleship Lure    by Harley Harrison
Price: Free! 11320 words. Published by Jekkara Press  on July 31, 2010. .

A Staynless Steel Rat story. Slippery Jem de Griz has been digging in the archives as punishment. She has found a sting, she believes, and tells her Special Corps boss. To prevent the end of a presidential career, they set a golden trap for an egomanical thief. But who is actually conning who when you can smell a big staynless steel rat? A Gender Switch Adventure.
The Freel of Streel: Part One in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 65650 words. Published on November 19, 2010. .

It is always advisable, when you are a conman, to make sure that the town that you're about to try to con does not have a land such as Streel hidden within it. For if it does, you may find yourself trying to escape your mind in an incomprehensible land with a left-handed scribe, being forced to deal with lexically picky ants, Kweengs, and the Freel on your journey through your fears, God and love.
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.
Heaven Knows He's Homesick Now    by Matt Simon
Price: Free! 1150 words. Published on February 20, 2011. .

In the latest installment of the Heaven Chronicles, Paul releases he's a fish out of water down under and Phillip is getting on rather well with a young nurse.
Drawing Dead    by David Hendrickson
Price: $0.99 USD. 1390 words. Published by Pentucket Publishing  on March 21, 2011. .

Smitty sees dollar signs when his latest mark maneuvers a wheelchair up to the poker table. But the stakes in this game run higher than Smitty ever imagined. A memorable horror story by award-winning author David H. Hendrickson. For more information about his work, go to hendricksonwriter.com.
Con Game    by stan singer
Price: $4.99 USD. 52710 words. Published on August 31, 2011. .

This is the semi-fictional story of an innocent, good man who goes to jail for a crime he didn't commit. He then comes out a changed man; a real criminal much worse then what the courts ever thought he was. He joins a crew from contacts he made in jail who make their living robbing drug dealers. All the while he plots and partakes his revenge on all the people responsible for his incarceration.
Nobody Dick in Dreamtime    by Will Lorimer
Price: $2.99 USD. 98800 words. Published on September 14, 2011. .

the secrets of a tibetan trickster and master thief, learned by his hapless scottish apprentice as they blaze an unstoppable trail through the boondocks of the australian dreamtime.
The Razor Files    by Tor Richardson
Price: $7.99 USD. 103020 words. Published by Grey Cat Press  on September 26, 2011. .

A billion-dollar insurance company fails and a young Axel Crane, accounting clerk, loses his job. Called back by regulators to help look for clues to a scheme that bled it dry, he stumbles into a world of shell companies and corporate intrigue where everyone who learns that secret dies from a fatal accident. Is he next? The Razor files: one perfect scam; one billion reasons to keep the secret.
What A Waste    by Paul Comstock
Price: Free! 6090 words. Published on October 1, 2011. .

Chase Ransom is a high tech garbage man, and proud of it. He should be. Garbage of the future is a valuable commodity, and mining old landfills is big business. But he isn't the only one in the business. One of his mob-connected competitors is getting in his way. Now Chase must teach him a lesson if he wants to stay on top.