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My First Ninety Years    by Mary Jane Baird
Price: Free! 3330 words. Published by Murder Creek Publishing  on August 22, 2010. .

The author gives us an opportunity to experience some of the more memorable moments in her long, rich life. First, as a child growing up in a small town in Kansas during the Depression, later as one of the fortunate young women who went to college during that time, and then as the wife of a very successful Presbyterian minister for 50 years.
The Man Who Needed Killing    by Susan Cogan
Price: $4.99 USD. 87690 words. Published on March 16, 2011. .

“The author never lets any piece fall into place too easily or illogically, never gives any character an easy out from their moral qualms, and colors details so skillfully that you feel the heat of the Oklahoma drought as surely as each little betrayal's knife wound when Joe realizes a friend has lied.”--Publisher's Weekly For other works by this author go to: www.coganbooks.net
The Road Between    by Florence Bell Ore
Price: $6.00 USD. 34120 words. Published by Raven Publishing of Montana on May 9, 2011. .

As a child living on the Alberta prairies during the 1930s and 1940s, Florence Bell traveled between the influence of three cultures: English morals and manners of her family working as missionaries on the Blackfoot Reserve, her Indian neighbors emerging from their tribal past, and the Canadian people striving for independence. Dust, the Great Depression, and World War II added other dimensions.
Harvest The Dust    by Adolphus Ward
Price: $3.50 USD. 49740 words. Published on October 18, 2011. .

HARVEST THE DUST is Book 1 of a trilogy of African American Family fictions – following three successive generations of the same family. This is Colt, Arkansas the mid-1930s, a time when the Great Depression still held the nation in its grip, when president Roosevelt struggled to bring relief to the American People, when black folks also suffered under Jim Crow.
Cyber Circus    by Kim Lakin-Smith
Price: $2.99 USD. 79190 words. Published by NewCon Press on October 24, 2011. .

Fast-paced cyber-punk action; a twisted love story set against the background of the American dustbowl. Love and hate, life and death grapple aboard a vast hot air balloon that is Cyber Circus. Hellequin, last of the HawkEye military elite, awaits the inevitable madness brought on by his biomorph implant. But first, he's determined to save the life of escaped courtesan turned-dancer Desirous Nim.
The Dandelion Clock    by Stephen Couch
Price: $0.99 USD. 5470 words. Published on February 25, 2012. .

Horror short story. In the depths of the Great Depression, a Panhandle family finds a mysterious contagion may make more than their dreams blow away with the wind.
The Angry Dust    by William Davey
Price: $3.99 USD. 85890 words. Published by The Wessex Collective  on March 20, 2012. .

Prescott Barnes and his family leave the dust bowl for California, but there its similarities with The Grapes of Wrath end. The grandson of a wealthy preacher who disinherited Prescott’s father, Barnes, despite his cynical black humor, hostility to religion, and his illiteracy, possesses a fierce integrity and passions that make him larger than life at the same time he is perfectly human.