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Soothing The Holocaustal Jitters    by Cara Ellison
Price: $0.99 USD. 760 words. Published on September 20, 2008. .
How I got over being terrified of getting blown to bits or gassed or melted or ionized as a result of some long prophesied apocalyptic scourge.
Awake    by C.S. Vance
Price: Free! 2440 words. Published on February 6, 2009. .
Jack Watson has a secret that he hides even from himself.
Rocket Kumar and other stories    by Samit Basu
You set the price! 16400 words. Published on March 21, 2009. .
Superheroes, wizards, spaceships, school bands, feasts - all the stories in this collection have been published in print in short story anthologies, four in India and one in Germany. The first four were in collections for younger readers, but will appeal, I fervently hope, to all those with an affinity for strange things. The fifth is set in the same world as my GameWorld Trilogy of fantasy novels
Ends    by Jonathan Vaught
Price: Free! 6390 words. Published on April 14, 2009. .
What could tomorrow be like if we all sacrificed for something we believe in?
Left Coast Karma    by Jonathan Vaught
Price: Free! 6090 words. Published on April 22, 2009. .
I ended up back by the bar, but Kevin and his friends were gone—vanished into a crowd of painfully cool Karma drones. I was about to go track him down when someone spoke at my elbow. “It’s all fake, you know.”
Electric Literature no.1    by Michael  Cunningham
Price: $4.95 USD. 27900 words. Published by Electric Literature on June 4, 2009. .
Electric Literature is just that, electric - five great stories that grab you. Our Summer 2009 debut anthology features the first published excerpt from Michael Cunningham's (The Hours) forthcoming novel. This issue also features new fiction by Jim Shepard, T Cooper, Lydia Millet and Diana Wagman. These stories are charged with wit, incident, and emotional gravity right from the first sentence.
A Turn of Curses    by Melanie Nilles
You set the price! 17360 words. Published on July 1, 2009. .
Nineteen year old Selina has a life many would love–praised, served, and spoiled. The only problem is she didn't choose that life, because it comes with a heavy price. She will soon die, like all Healers, when the mark of Y'dom completes its pattern around her neck, and hers is nearly complete. She has one chance for adventure, one that could save her life.
GIRL TROUBLE: Five Shorts    by Francine Saint Marie
Price: $2.99 USD. 18430 words. Published by Fifth Column Press  on October 7, 2009. .
KINDLE BESTSELLER: Joan Majors is in her own words a faithless bragging womanizer, but when she meets sexy first-timer and new divorcee Annette Martinaeau she falls head over high heels in love and vows to mend those wicked ways. That's good news to Annette because if there's anything in the world she really can't stand it's a faithless bragging womanizer. Especially one itching to get her in bed.
The Suffering of Being Kafka    by Sam Vaknin
Price: Free! 44530 words. Published on January 3, 2010. .
A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.
Shortcuts    by Tarrin Webb
Price: $0.99 USD. 9020 words. Published by MindWings on January 3, 2010. .
Gail Mahoney, single mom, student and waitress, decides to take a shortcut home one night in January after work, a co-worker swears it’ll save her time. A flat tire in a cell-phone-dead-zone and a passerby with murderous intent send Gail racing against death on an icy country road.

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