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Someone Else, Somewhere Else    by Jenelle Jack Pierre
Price: Free! 4610 words. Published on February 15, 2012. .

Twin sisters. Stepdaughters. Neighbours. The lives of the two main characters in this first-person plural short story are forever changed when their mother remarries and they move next door to a family unlike their own. Could their lives have been different with a flip of a coin? This story is from the short story collection, LOVE'S ONLOOKERS, due out August 1, 2012.
Bloodlines (The Anti-Vampire Tale, Book 2)    by Lewis Aleman
Price: $2.99 USD. 109580 words. Published on February 20, 2012. .

Following the dramatic events at the end of The Anti-Vampire Tale Book 1, Ruby and Simon return from their romantic beach getaway to find that Edgar has taken control of the vampires in New Orleans after Roderick's death. Even more dangerous, Desirée has traveled halfway around the world in search of a legendary secret and has accidentally awakened an ancient horror that could annihilate them all.
Spring Fevers    by Matt Sinclair
Price: Free! 39260 words. Published on February 21, 2012. .

An anthology of short stories, Spring Fevers explores tales of relationships in their varied states: love -- requited and unrequited -- friendships discovered and lost, family in its many guises, and the myriad places in between. Individual stories in the anthology will appeal to fans of young adult, literary, and science fiction, as well as other genres.
Dance for the Rain    by Kristina Woodall
Price: $5.99 USD. 85080 words. Published on February 22, 2012. .

Callie Wainwright, a 23-year-old writer, discovers that just as there is a time to grieve and a time to mourn, there is also a time to get up and make life happen in new ways and in new colors; a time to get up and dance for the rain
The Translator of The Gospel (a Short Story)    by Lucas Nicolato
Price: $0.99 USD. 6690 words. Published on February 23, 2012. .

This short story narrates the life of a scribe in the court of Alfred the Great, who, being captured by vikings and sold as a slave to an emperor in the Far East, has the difficult mission of translating Luke's Gospel in such a way as to please the evil tyrant.
Northwoods Chronicles: A Novel in Short Stories    by Elizabeth Engstrom
Price: $4.95 USD. 76380 words. Published by Imagination Fully Dilated Publishing  on February 26, 2012. .

Publisher's Weekly Starred Review: "Dark fantasy writer Engstrom (Black Leather) starts on familiar ground, but rapidly turns this 'novel in stories' into a genre-blending exploration of love, aging, grief and sacrifice. Fast-paced, melancholy and beautiful, the overarching narrative binds a collection of good stories into a superb if unconventional novel.
The Polyphonic Ringtones of the Damned    by Alan Walsh
Price: $1.99 USD. 78060 words. Published on February 29, 2012. .

Madness, Paranoia, isolation, hot-desking. Welcome to the world of Moonbeam, a chain smoking, alcoholic Capuchin monkey trying to make it as a Web Designer in a London drained of all life and love. Hounded by a saboteur intent on ruining the little chance he has with life, Moonbeam struggles through the world of men. Can he break free of the madness?
Closing Circles:Trapped In the Everlasting Mormon Moment    by R.B. Scott
Price: $4.99 USD. 142560 words. Published by Gray Dog Press  on March 1, 2012. .

From R.B. Scott, author of Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics, comes a rollicking, brutally candid novel of a young Mormon journalist’s attempt to liberate himself from a failed marriage and the confounding influences of his religious culture and family.
A Little Bit of Everything    by J. Kevin Tumlinson
Price: $1.99 USD. 66120 words. Published on March 5, 2012. .

This short story collection features tales from a variety of genres. There is science fiction, of course! But also tales of horror and suspense, and some literary tales that are a look at life from a different perspective. Two of the stories in this collection ("Treehouse" and "One Way Ticket") are recipients of the Danny Lee Lawrence Award for Fiction.
Pilots of the Purple Twilight    by Kit Reed
Price: $0.99 USD. 4410 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 6, 2012. .

The wives spent every day by the pool – this was where the men had left them, after all. A moving, incisive story that gets right under your skin from an author whose prose style has been described as "pure dry ice" by The New York Times Book Review.