Robot of Leisure #1: Boris and the Open House    by Katharine Miller
Price: $3.99 USD. 350 words. Published on January 12, 2011. .
In Boris and the Open House, it is the first open house for Zükünfthaus and Boris gets the opportunity to show off his skills for hordes of potential homebuyers. As Boris prepares for the festivities, he is frequently distracted by his own enjoyment of his tasks. When the day doesn't go as planned, Boris copes with dashed expectations and uncertainty for the future.

The Strange Tale of a Certain Ms. C. Ball and Her Friends    by Walter Kastner
Price: $9.99 USD. 177320 words. Published by Fideli Publishing on February 3, 2011. .
Our two-millimeter heroine, Crystal, is born in a.d. 523 on the Arabian shore during a lightning storm. A shepherd boy finds her and keeps her until he dies as sultan. Shahrazad is his destiny, but he will have to wait.The Strange Tale of A Certain Ms. C. Ball and Her Friends is a historical romance adventure for all those eggheads, children, and grownups who want to know how high-tech and the spa

Iron Monk    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $0.99 USD. 5000 words. Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. .
Two Shaolin monks exiled to outer space try to keep up their traditions, including kung fu, on their way to answer an alien communication signal. But when Little Tiger falls ill, they must reinvent their approach in order to survive. "[A]n intriguing story of a group of Chinese dissidents sent on a treacherous space mission to contact aliens in the outer Solar System..." D. Douglas Fratz, sfsite

Tall Buildings    by Vivian Davenport
Price: $0.99 USD. 61270 words. Published on July 30, 2011. .
In 1962, that quaint time of polio, carbon paper, and the Constitutional right to an attorney, Junemarie leaves the farm for Manhattan to become a career girl--and to find a husband.

Asphalt and Dragonflies    by Paul Hawkins
Price: Free! 2990 words. Published on April 22, 2012. .
Part surrealism and part Flannery O'Connor: even as a dying old man fights his family and his caregiver to ensure that not a scrap of his body persists in this damned world after his passing, a storm-addled plague of insects sparks him to reknit his one true love from scraps of memory.