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There Honour Lies    by Andrew Warwick
Price: Free! 2380 words. Published on July 7, 2009. .

In the aftermath of a terrible battle, rash words and hasty actions see the elderly Lord John of Eastbrook challenge a much younger knight to a duel, a trial of arms that he knows he can not win.
Family Man, Thief    by Joshua Lunsky
Price: $9.99 USD. 87100 words. Published on January 25, 2010. .

Two powerful men, one famous painting and a hatred that has been festering for two decades are about to clash. Deputy Director Jason Brown wants the top job and he'll do anything to get it, even recreate his most famous success. Master-thief Terry Effingham has other plans, destroy the man who put him in prison and killed his partner. One man wil get all he wants the other will lose everything.
Noble Roots    by Don Sampen
Price: $2.99 USD. 161160 words. Published on June 12, 2010. .

Tom, who is 18, has been raised a peasant farmer by adoptive parents after being rescued from the side of a road 15 years ago. He faintly remembers his natural mother’s murder. Since then King Henry II has brought peace to the English countryside. When his adoptive father is murdered, however, Tom embarks upon a series of adventures leading to the discovery of his family's startling past.
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?
Deux Officiers Pour Un Vicaire    by Patrick Huet
Price: $0.99 USD. 2260 words. Published on March 19, 2011. .

En décembre 1769 un brave vicaire donnait une fête pour le mariage de sa nièce. Deux officiers inconnus de tous s'y étaient invités et comptaient bien y semer le désordre et le désarroi. Une histoire basée sur des faits réels.
Shenandoah    by CE Wills
Price: Free! 1280 words. Published on May 1, 2011. .

This is a short story, a romance which starts on the eve of the civil war. A young man wants no part in the war but his fiance's father insists that he fight on the side of the Union. A short read, suitable for your morning commute.
Pirates of Savannah: The Complete Trilogy (Adult Version) - Historical Fiction Action Adventure    by Tarrin P. Lupo
Price: $5.99 USD. 128930 words. Published on May 16, 2011. .

Join the adventure as a group of colonists try to find the path to freedom under the thumb of an overreaching government. They face trial after trial as they find their way together, learning who to trust and who not to trust. Go from the dungeons of London to the new town of Savannah, across the coastal plains of Georgia and the Carolinas and down to the Florida Keys, in this fight for liberty!