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Swallow    by Tonya Plank
Price: $2.99 USD. 96900 words. Published on March 31, 2010. .

A shy, young Manhattan attorney from a small-town, working-class background struggles with Globus Hystericus, the sensation of a ball in the throat, which makes it hard for her to eat, speak, and eventually breathe. This multiple-award-winning novel, at times darkly comical, centers on class privilege, gender equity, and the distance that can separate fathers and daughters.
At My Window with a Broken Wing    by Ric Wasley
Price: $3.25 USD. 15450 words. Published by Marci Baun on April 6, 2010. .

What happens when a sweet, naïve college girl from a small town in Ohio decides that she wants to leave the predictable small town life and small town boyfriend behind and take a "walk on the wild side"? Find out in Ric Wasley's "At My Window with a Broken Wing".
Heads    by Eddie Stack
Price: $2.99 USD. 61300 words. Published on May 13, 2010. .

A zany, humourous story, Heads relates the adventures of Jazz Doherty, an Irish artist who makes a sacrilegious blunder while painting murals at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Berkeley, California. The parish priest, Fr. Ned Tobin, declares jihad on him and Doherty goes on the run. His work gathers a cult following while he house-sits for a jailed dope dealer. Then he finds a stash of cash...
A Trip to Tanglewood    by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 4320 words. Published on May 28, 2010. .

Marie Augustin, an Haitian nurses aide, is blindsided when one of her elderly clients, Peter Marsoubian, asks her to accompany him on a trip to hear the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform in Tanglewood. Does the green-card immigrant, who witnessed first hand the endemic violence in her native country, follow agency protocol or bend rules to accommodate the absurd whim of a dying man?
Number Theory    by Noah Bogdonoff
Price: $0.99 USD. 1570 words. Published by Untreed Reads on June 2, 2010. .

A high school boy finds out that in both love and algebra, solving for 'x' may not always get you the result you expect.
Heathcliff    by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 5520 words. Published on June 17, 2010. .

Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborne Smoke Finder, all six varieties of New England ferns, a beaver dam, and something he never bargained for.
Porcelain    by Jess C Scott
Price: $2.99 USD. 40370 words. Published on June 21, 2010. .

A collection of both new and previously published short stories, poems, and essays, by author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. Porcelain offers a personal draft of the author’s navigation through a world that is fantastical, offbeat, ironic, unexpected, and true.
Two Pockets    by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 7420 words. Published on June 24, 2010. .

According to Hasidic tradition, everyone must have two pockets, so they can reach into the one or the other, according to need. In the right pocket are to be the words: ‘For my sake was the world created,’ and in the left: ‘I am dust and ashes.’
The Battered Suitcase May 2009    by Battered Suitcase
Price: $0.99 USD. 22150 words. Published by Vagabondage Press LLC on June 26, 2010. .

The May 2009 Issue of Arts and Literary Journal The Battered Suitcase. Edited by Fawn Neun and Apythia Morges. Fiction by Magen Toole, Marc Lowe, Lily Iona MacKenzie, Martin Reed, Adnan Mahmutovic and Jharice Blake. Art by Winston Chmielinski, Francis Raven, Caitlin Worthington, and Katerina Belkina. Poetry by Paul Moore, Sara Anne Noah, Erika Lorentzsen, Marie C. Lascu, Phibby Venable.
Call of the Beguiled    by Barry Rachin
Price: Free! 7190 words. Published on July 1, 2010. .

Cheryl Oliphant doesn’t do well in social situations. The fourteen year old girl’s best friend, Nicolena, is a four-foot, South American tree boa and her parents are getting divorced. On the plus side, Cheryl just met Teddy Rasmussen who offered her a sympathetic ear plus an inch-thick slice of apricot, sour cream loaf.