The Kick    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 2820 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 7, 2012. .
Ever since he got kicked in the head as a young boy, John can’t shake the urge to kick people. His compulsion remains in check for most of his life until one evening when he encounters a particularly inept guitar player and the urge threatens to overwhelm him.

Marble Angels    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 3150 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 14, 2012. .
A plastic surgeon receives a strange patient when a marble angel raps on her window and asks for a radical procedure. At first the surgeon is hesitant, but the charm and beauty of the statue changes her mind. She gives the marble angel what she wants. The procedure is a success, but the result is bittersweet. A haunting fantasy of the sacrifice love sometimes asks of us.

Claypot Dreamstance    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $7.99 USD. 74240 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 18, 2012. .
Once a well-liked artist with a charmed existence, Claypot Dreamstance’s life cracks wide open when his young daughter dies in a drowning accident. Crippled by depression and grief, Claypot is on the verge of losing everything, including his life, when a couple decides to help him survive. They will succeed only if they can make Claypot see beauty in the world, even without his daughter in it.

The Infinite Garden    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 4320 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 21, 2012. .
Ralph decides to take up gardening as a way to escape his fear of the spiders in his house. But when his garden gets out of hand and he needs to build an infinite greenhouse to enclose it, things get very weird. Then an encounter with a spider brings terror back into his life and Ralph must find a way to save his own sanity.

The Crying Stone    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 3550 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 26, 2012. .
The old gargoyle hangs by the courtyard, cold and silent, but not dead. The spark of life burns inside him. When an old man approaches the gargoyle looking for wisdom, the gargoyle must decide how much of the truth to reveal. His answer will change the old man’s life forever.

Weedhead    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $2.99 USD. 5650 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 31, 2012. .
Owlspeak, once a feared warrior and protector of the land, battles a crippling illness that keeps her indoors, out of the natural world. When Weedhead, a young would-be warrior, arrives at her shack seeking her gift, Owlspeak treats her with scorn. But Weedhead slowly endears herself to Owlspeak until Owlspeak asks Weedhead for the ultimate gift: a peaceful end to her wretched existence.

Hail Mary    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 3950 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 5, 2012. .
For Clarice, football is a religion and game day is like going to church. She even dons a VR suit plugged into her team’s quarterback to enhance her sacred experience. For her husband Grant, football is little more than an amusement. He does not understand Clarice’s obsession. When Grant undertakes to sabotage her VR experience of Super Bowl Sunday, no one on or off the field will be safe.

The Restless Wanderer    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 4380 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 12, 2012. .
An astronaut returns from Mars and everything changes. He loses his memory, paper robots skitter everywhere, and is kept in a rudimentary cell against his will. When he escapes his incarceration he encounters an entourage of forest dwellers who promise to reveal the truth to him no matter what it will cost him. Meanwhile the wasps have plans of their own and they are swarming.

Before the Birds    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $2.99 USD. 5380 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 19, 2012. .
Tom’s parents want to teach him the value of life. They present him with a bill for his upbringing, to be paid beginning on his 18th birthday. Tom accepts the bill and takes it with him on his walk around the neighborhood. That’s when he’s confronted with a shotgun-toting neighbor afraid of burglars. With his very existence hanging in the balance, Tom gets a true lesson in the value of life.

Under the Mask    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 4270 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 26, 2012. .
Helen wakes up one morning with an urge to get rid of her husband, Jerry. She kicks Jerry until he leaves. As she breaks dishes, lamps, dressers, and doors, Jerry looks for a way back into his house, but his efforts are complicated by a neighbor with the same destructive urges as Helen. As Helen and the neighbor destroy his house, Jerry has to fight them both if he wants his old life back.