Castor Bean Seeds    by Janice Daugharty
Price: $1.99 USD. 560 words. Published on August 27, 2010. .
A young bride in 1963, my friendly new neighbors showered me with Castor Bean seeds. Nobody knew then that the seeds contained Ricin. They were just tall exotic plants, free for the sharing. Later I learned how toxic the seeds are and wondered how many had been carried downstream to Florida by the Alapaha River. But that was a different time--that was before the grasshopper became a burden.

The Last of the Bird People    by John Hanson Mitchell
Price: $3.95 USD. 69760 words. Published by Wilderness House Press  on May 1, 2012. .
John Hanson Mitchell's new novel is about a secretive band of mixed-race hunter-gatherers who had lived, undiscovered, in the Swift River Valley of Central Massachusetts, for many generations. This book, takes the form of a legal deposition found at Harvard’s Peabody Museum, is the story of the fate of these retiring, peaceable people and the young anthropologist who first contacted them.