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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.
The Polyglot's Nightmares: Part X½ in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60080 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Fleeing a war and in search of himself, Ion finds himself residing in a number of strange caves, on the walls of which are written a strange language. He meets a woman who guides him through his state of being a refugee and is troubled by strange dreams that seem to incorporate the existence of the war, his love for the woman he has met and a sense of the divine.
The Quite Possibly Near Death of Hurol Davelrish: Part Three in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61010 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

When an arrogant stuntman, Hurol Davelrish, has a seizure during a stunt, he finds himself in the kingdom of Scalter, a land in which he is king, but which is strangely ruled by a phantasmic man named Viscount Vaunt. Hurol meets a strangely kind friend, Grib, in the malevolent world, who tries to pull him back from the ledge of his pride - what will become of the much-admired stuntman?
The Old Book    by Dwayne Phillips
Price: $0.99 USD. 2820 words. Published on March 25, 2011. .

A man finds an old book in an antique store. Someone filled the pages with writing in the margins. It is some type of diary from the second world war, but the pages are linked cryptically. Can the man and a friend decipher the secret of the old book?
Code Word Puzzles    by Ted Summerfield
Price: $0.99 USD. 10040 words. Published on February 20, 2012. .

73 Code Word Puzzles of witty quotes and fascinating trivia to challenge you and make you smile. Easy, medium, hard, and helpless levels of play, with each level having less clues than the preceding. Helpless level puzzles offer no clues; it’s up to you alone to break the code. Quotes from Bill Cosby and others. Trivia on Sesame Street, fish, football, the Beatles and other things or thoughts.
Thomas Bulford's English Companion    by Ian B G Burns
Price: $3.77 USD. 40390 words. Published on March 18, 2012. .

A new compendium of words by a little-known but infinitely-self-important, self-proclaimed aficianado, on why English is the greatest language.