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At The Edge of Nowhere    by J. Daniel Sawyer
Price: $0.99 USD. 4990 words. Published by AWP Books  on February 27, 2011. .

Spend enough time at the end of your rope, and you'll make some bad choices--make enough of them, and your choices start making themselves. But when you're a nineteen year old boy living on the streets with no money for food, you find salvation anywhere you can. Maybe in a dumpster, or a brothel, or a gun. Or maybe in a creepy, cold pawn shop, in a broken down city at the edge of nowhere.
Déstabilisant    by Romain Combes
Price: $1.31 USD. 4680 words. Published on July 31, 2011. .

Un enfant affiche un comportement particulièrement troublant. Son père tente de trouver une solution, mais semble perdre tout repère.
The Knowledge and other stories    by Danny Rhodes
Price: $0.99 USD. 23590 words. Published on September 24, 2011. .

Three children discover a suicide victim and the secret he tried to keep; a grieving railworker finds a glimmer of hope in an abandoned car; a group of friends visit a casino that craves more than money... Heartfelt, dark, unsettling, with fragments of the fantastical owing a debt to The Twilight Zone, this collection brings together six previously published short stories by Danny Rhodes.
Bad People/Ugly Lives    by Edward Sloan
Price: $3.99 USD. 141360 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on September 26, 2011. .

The corruption and criminal malfeasance that masquerades as law. An accurate description of the cocaine trade, and the dual role played by the participants real and believable as told by a man with experience. Psychological analysis that puts the reader into the heads of those involved: ammunition, greed, lust, violence, revenge, hope and motivation. An underlying transcendental theme: Reparation
Abed    by Elizabeth Massie
Price: $0.99 USD. 3850 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on October 29, 2011. .

Abed - called one of the most disturbing horror stories ever written - was first published in the anthology STILL DEAD, edited by John Skipp & Craig Spector. You've seen plenty of stories of zombies, decapitation, "double-tapping" and gore...but if you've never experienced this story (now a film by Ryan Lieske...
'Chinese Whispers'    by Sue Welfare
Price: $0.99 USD. 4010 words. Published on November 4, 2011. .

When a boy with a vivid imagination and problems of his own witnesses something unusual, he sets in motion a chain of events that lead to mayhem and death.
America in the Fall    by Raymond Carter Cantrell
Price: $0.99 USD. 104430 words. Published on December 27, 2011. .

Torn apart by a violent racial-political Civil War, America has fractured from a United Republic into an array of half functioning city-states under mixed forms of governance. In the Nation of Texas the onetime Lone Star State has degenerated into a lawless plutocracy, the result of an uneasy truce between the Texas Independents and Tea Party militants.
Iliarjuk: An Inuit Memoir    by Dreque Dreque
Price: $4.50 USD. 131520 words. Published by Libros Libertad Publishing  on January 23, 2012. .

When I first read the Dracc Dreque manuscript I was immediately struck by its unflinching honesty and its uniqueness. As far as I knew, it was the only memoir ever written by an Inuit and it cut sharply across our ideas about the Arctic...
Pilots of the Purple Twilight    by Kit Reed
Price: $0.99 USD. 4410 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 6, 2012. .

The wives spent every day by the pool – this was where the men had left them, after all. A moving, incisive story that gets right under your skin from an author whose prose style has been described as "pure dry ice" by The New York Times Book Review.
Closet Dreams    by Lisa Tuttle
Price: $0.99 USD. 5590 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 6, 2012. .

“Something terrible happened to me when I was a little girl...” so begins this extraordinary, International Horror Guild Award-winning tale of abduction, survival and escape from the author Stephen Jones has called “a major force in macabre fiction.”