Look Away Silence    by Edward C. Patterson
Price: $2.99 USD. 100800 words. Published on July 23, 2009. .
Martin Powers wanted an ironing board for Christmas. Instead, he got . . . Matthew Kieler, a non-returnable gift, but a gift that kept on giving. Look Away Silence is a romance set in the time of AIDS, when ignorance could spell trouble and often did. It encompasses the author’s experiences in volunteer community service and personal friendships during a tragic period in American history.

The Fall    by J.M. Snyder
Price: $1.99 USD. 3210 words. Published by JMS Books LLC  on August 11, 2009. .
Gabe fell in love with Luce the moment they met. Unfortunately, love is a forbidden emotion among angels, and their sin costs one of them his wings. NOTE: This story appears in my collection, OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE, and doesn't have a happy ending.

Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony: Marxism, Capitalism, and their Relation to Sexism, Racism, Nationalism and Authoritarianism    by Lenny Flank
Price: $9.99 USD. 53880 words. Published on September 8, 2009. .
A critical examination of the relationship between Marxism and other social justice movements, including feminism, anti-racism, gay liberation, environmentalism, anarchism and Native activism.

GAPH 2: The Readers    by B. Alan Bourgeois
Price: $3.99 USD. 71710 words. Published on October 19, 2009. .
Join our two Hero's Brent & Nicole as they find out their lives and the lives of hundreds of thousands around the country are at stake once again. They thought they had gotten rid of God's Army to Purge Homosexuality, only to find out that another person has taken the lead in this terrorist desire to rid America of Homosexuals. Will they succeed in destroying them?

Spirit Never Dies    by B. Alan Bourgeois
Price: $3.99 USD. 67510 words. Published on October 19, 2009. .
When the world is faced with a new level of evolution, two things can happen. It can be good or it can be bad. This is a story of how these two forces must come to terms with their powers and to deal with that humanistic nature of what is good or bad. Author B. Alan Bourgeois has written a faced pace novel about the new level of evolution known as the Star Children.

'Fly-Over State' by Emma Straub    by Flatmancrooked Publishing
Price: $3.50 USD. 14860 words. Published on October 21, 2009. .
Fly-Over State is the debut of author Emma Straub, the 08/09 Halls Emerging Fellow at University of Wisconsin. Fly-Over State includes two stories: Fly-Over State and Hot Springs Eternal. Themes of love and aging, loneliness and danger in a new environment, and self-discovery and painful growth run deep in this impressive debut from one of America's emerging power-house authors.

Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure    by Duane Simolke
Price: $2.99 USD. 78920 words. Published on October 27, 2009. .
Winner, StoneWall Society Pride in the Arts Award. The brilliant scientist Taldra loves her twin gay sons and sees them as the hope for Valchondria's future, but one of them becomes entangled in the cult of Degranon, while the other becomes stranded on the other side of a doorway through time. Can they find their way home and help Taldra save their world?

The Name on My Wrist    by J.M. Snyder
Price: Free! 2200 words. Published by JMS Books LLC  on November 6, 2009. .
James, middle-aged, is given to one-night flings with younger men in whom he searches for someone he lost long ago. A random comment by his latest catch draws his mind back to the past, to a boy he once loved so fiercely, a boy drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam. A boy lost in the war. A boy James has never forgotten. WARNING: This is a very sad little story. It's also one of my best IMHO.

influential    by Wynn Wagner
Price: $5.99 USD. 60520 words. Published on November 28, 2009. .
Opposites attract. One is a streetwise kid with a shrewd talent for business. The other is a clairvoyant Swede with a take-no-prisoners activist mom. It is the tale of two boys who never should have met. When they do, the results are “explosive.” You will absolutely love these guys.

In Jupiter's Shadow    by Gregory Gerard
Price: $3.99 USD. 72460 words. Published on December 6, 2009. .
Hiding from others is easy. Hiding from yourself is trickier. Growing up in Western New York in the late ’70s/early ’80s, Greg is a teenage “detective" searching for self-truth. He confronts Heaven and Hell as he struggles -- within a family full of secrets -- to solve the profound mystery he encounters in the bathtub on the second floor.