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Quick Quirk Quiz - In the Kitchen    by Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen
Price: $0.99 USD. 8220 words. Published on November 9, 2009. .

Have you ever considered the items that are crammed into your kitchen cupboards and cabinets? Behind every box of cereal, every utensil, and every sauce a story waits to be told. Test your knowledge of common kitchen items with these 28 true tales of culinary origins.
Quick Quirk Quiz - Things In the Bathroom    by Janet Spencer - Trivia Queen
Price: $0.99 USD. 8040 words. Published on November 12, 2009. .

The stuff you store in your bathroom didn’t get their by accident. Long before you bought it, brought it home, and crammed it into your medicine chest, someone was wondering… experimenting… discovering… manufacturing… and marketing. Here are 28 tales behind the things you use when you’re in the bathroom. Can you guess the product after hearing the story behind its invention?
The Dark Swan Diary    by Lee E. Shilo
Price: $2.99 USD. 7690 words. Published on November 30, 2009. .

I began receiving information years ago in my mailbox, from an anonymous source. These communications were in the form of someones diary pages. They were always signed only as, code name Dark Swan. He or she, was always very careful not to give any indication as to the origins of this mysterious mail.
Gypsy Lee's Fairy Tales, Fables & Yarns    by Robert Lee
Price: $2.99 USD. 54400 words. Published on March 2, 2011. .

So you've been told that fairy tales are for kids? And you are too old to believe in fables? Then, Gypsy Lee's collection of stories isn't for you. "Gypsy Lee'sFairy Tales, Fables & Yarns" is only for those of us who are young, or who are still handicapped by optimism, imagination and a need to embrace the fun and fantasy in life.
Dark And Fantastic Tales    by Brian Steele
Price: $5.00 USD. 17660 words. Published on March 18, 2011. .

ST GEORGES St Georges seemed haunted at night. Whenever the thousands of children were no longer there it became disquieting, a place of echoes. The lines of desks looked unnatural without children sitting at them scribbling away. The corridors seemed infinite without little children running through them. Even the caretaker hated..
True Tails    by J. H. Soeder
Price: $3.95 USD. 61320 words. Published on May 20, 2011. .

Winner of 5 National Book Awards, its the never-before-told story of a boy who discovers he can “hear” the thoughts of birds and animals—tiny insects to the largest living creatures today, whales—and “speak” back to them with his mind. Its “tails” describe the miracle that is life, as the animals’ clearly sentient behavior in response to him and as witnessed by others.
The Sigyr Fables    by J.R. Duclayan
Price: $2.99 USD. 16410 words. Published on May 31, 2011. .

What happens when you bring together an apathetic wall, a manic-depressive ghost, a flippant bird, a flighty gust of wind, and a philosophical spider? Mix in some of the more universally incomprehensible human conditions such as loneliness, grief, existentialist dilemmas, mortality, and love, and watch as these five characters provide an interesting display of what it means to be human.