Cruel Sky    by Steven Lassiter
Price: $2.99 USD. 88660 words. Published by Blue Shark Publishing  on December 29, 2011. .
In the dying days of the Soviet Union, a Russian mobster sets in motion a daring plan to steal a dangerous prize from a secret naval base. In a desolate forest in Imperial Russia, a peasant and his son are caught at ground zero of a fifteen megaton explosion. The two events are joined by a desperate struggle for an artifact that could destroy the world, an artifact that fell out of a CRUEL SKY.

A Mother's Love    by Steven Mohan, Jr.
Price: $1.49 USD. 10890 words. Published by Blue Shark Publishing  on January 5, 2012. .
Gasira is a chimp taken from the wild when she was a baby and gifted with human intelligence. Now an adolescent, she’s asking about the one topic no one ever talks about. Mothers. Desperate to know about her real mother she works with a pair of madcap orangs to steal her file. Only the plan blows up in her face, leading to a courtroom drama that places the idea of uplift itself on trial.