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Fair Trade    by Rita  Hestand
Price: $0.99 USD. 1440 words. Published on October 11, 2009. .

A short story for pre-teens. How can you make your peers understand that you are growing up and deserve a little respect?
Hobos I Have Known    by Art Burton
Price: $1.99 USD. 11680 words. Published on February 28, 2011. .

Things during the Great Depression of the 1930s were much different than they are today. Men, soon known to everyone as hobos, threw themselves at the mercy of the residents of the towns and villages they traveled through looking for increasingly scarce work. These short stories tell their story through the eyes of one of the rural people who fed them.
Creepy 13    by C. M. Marcum
Price: $0.99 USD. 37680 words. Published on October 13, 2011. .

Almost Halloween! Thirteen short stories to get you in the mood. Each one is easily consumable for a lunchtime read. Most of these stories are lightly sautéed in science fiction. Some are salted with dark humor. All of them are boiled over a creepy flame. Goosebumps high, blood splatter minimum.
Valknut: The Binding    by Marie Loughin
Price: $4.99 USD. 101460 words. Published on January 1, 2012. .

When Lennie hops a freight train in a desperate search for her father, she's thrust into an underworld of hobos and gangbangers. But all is not as it seems. A series of terrifying encounters reveals her family's part in the ancient battle between Odin Allfather and Fenrir the Wolf. Now Fenrir is after her. Can she master her family's inherited power and bind Fenrir before he destroys her soul?
The Legend of Joe, Willy & Red    by Jared McVay
Price: $4.99 USD. 89850 words. Published by Karla Locke on February 16, 2012. .

Join Jared for a runaway train of a story, “The Legend of Joe, Willy & Red,” a story of the outrageous thirties - August of 1933 in fact, and the unlikely friendship of three men who choose the hobo trail rather than face the consequences of crimes they were accused of, but did not commit. They find themselves in a harrowing adventure of epic proportion and in a fight for their very survival.
Rupunzel And The Three Hobo's    by Reeda Biebz
Price: Free! 980 words. Published on March 12, 2012. .

A fractured fairy tale of the original Fictional story.
Sure, I Can Do That: a twentieth century american memoir    by R. Wayne Morgan
Price: Free! 32100 words. Published on April 20, 2012. .

My father grew up in the poverty of Dust Bowl Kansas during the Great Depression. Sure, I Can Do That is a collection of stories that he told about his life on the farm and his adventures riding the rails as a teenage hobo. These are true stories of an American life, told with humor and honesty. They paint a colorful portrait of a man who overcomes the limitations of his circumstances.
Faded Roses    by Fern Smith Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 47870 words. Published by Don Johnson on April 27, 2012. .

The faded roses of yesterday waft back with compelling intensity, touching the lives of those today in a sad yet often uplifting way. Fern Smith-Brown has written large the souls of Josiah Johnson, Cassie De Carlo, and Sam Sloan in this finely crafted novel of the past. It explores the 30s with trains, hobos, and hard times. But always speaks of love.