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Upbound    by Peter Hassebroek
Price: $2.99 USD. 87470 words. Published on July 23, 2010. .

Reincarnation ideas spark a child’s coming of age quest for truth about his beloved uncle’s puzzling death, unearthing family secrets that lead to severe consequences.
Searching for a Starry Night, A Miniature Art Mystery    by C. A. Verstraete
Price: $2.99 USD. 46970 words. Published on August 5, 2010. .

Sam, her BFF Lita, and a mischievous Dachshund named Petey, face a cranky housekeeper, a dog-hating gardener, and an ancient family curse as they search for a missing miniature replica of Van Gogh's famous painting, "Starry Night." Can Sam find the miniature painting in time? Will she and Lita go home forever friends--or enemies? 2009 Eppie Award finalist for Best YA/Children's eBook
Silent Hero: a tribute to The Legend of Zelda    by Christine E Schulze
Price: Free! 53890 words. Published on November 3, 2010. .

The Triforce is broken into nine shards. Darkness creeps into the realms of Hyrule, Termina, and Twilight. These three realms, intimately linked, can only be rescued by... A young boy who cannot speak but whose courage will emanate louder than any evil he faces. A princess as timeless as the shadowy realm from which she returns. Can light and dark converge without creating shadow?
The Freel of Streel: Part One in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 65650 words. Published on November 19, 2010. .

It is always advisable, when you are a conman, to make sure that the town that you're about to try to con does not have a land such as Streel hidden within it. For if it does, you may find yourself trying to escape your mind in an incomprehensible land with a left-handed scribe, being forced to deal with lexically picky ants, Kweengs, and the Freel on your journey through your fears, God and love.
A Ghostly Christmas Present    by J. Daniel Sawyer
Price: $3.99 USD. 33720 words. Published by AWP Books  on December 19, 2010. .

It's hard to beat being thrown in an out-of-state jail on a trumped up charge as a Christmas present, but detective Clarke Lantham loves a challenge. So when he calls up his brother for help with bail, he thinks he's prepared for the ordeal of spending a holiday weekend with relatives who put the "strange" back in "estranged." That was his first mistake.
Jigsaw    by Douglas Smith
Price: $0.99 USD. 5760 words. Published on January 11, 2011. .

Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Solve an ancient puzzle as big as a planet...or die. "A fun romp involving aliens and continental drift." —Publishers Weekly
Claustrum: Part Two in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61290 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Claustrum, a superhero with a strange power, the ability to control people with strange, elegiac mixtures of words, seemingly randomly shows up in the city of Dioma, not knowing where he came from or why he is there. The city is then beleaguered by the cruel villain Sine Animus, who is immune to Claustrum's powers over words. Claustrum flees the city and is forced to seek his own personal truth.
The Polyglot's Nightmares: Part X½ in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60080 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Fleeing a war and in search of himself, Ion finds himself residing in a number of strange caves, on the walls of which are written a strange language. He meets a woman who guides him through his state of being a refugee and is troubled by strange dreams that seem to incorporate the existence of the war, his love for the woman he has met and a sense of the divine.
The Quite Possibly Near Death of Hurol Davelrish: Part Three in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61010 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

When an arrogant stuntman, Hurol Davelrish, has a seizure during a stunt, he finds himself in the kingdom of Scalter, a land in which he is king, but which is strangely ruled by a phantasmic man named Viscount Vaunt. Hurol meets a strangely kind friend, Grib, in the malevolent world, who tries to pull him back from the ledge of his pride - what will become of the much-admired stuntman?
Said the Spider to the Fly    by Miss Mae
Price: $3.99 USD. 43110 words. Published on February 25, 2011. .

What secrets gather dust inside the house of Mona's childhood? What secrets lie cloaked in the sleepy little town of Copper Springs? What secrets does Mona's old boyfriend fight to hide? What secrets are masked behind Preston Hitchcock's lady-killer smiles? And what secrets plague Mona's tortured memories? They all converge in one tightly woven web of danger, deceit, and -- murder?