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Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box    by Annette Greenaway
Price: Free! 3630 words. Published by Philistine Press  on September 5, 2010. .

Twenty eight poems about love, music, nature, travel, meditation and the end of the world. This dazzling debut collection manages to be both haunting and hilarious.
Nightjack    by Tom Piccirilli
Price: $4.99 USD. 71880 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on October 19, 2010. .

Pace is released from a mental institution, only to be kidnapped by three other escapees, all suffering from multiple personality disorder. What ensues is a wild, surreal adventure leading finally to a Greek island, where everyone may wind up dead unless Pace willingly releases the darkest persona of all...Nightjack.
The Monsters of Morgan Island    by Sandra McDonald
Price: $0.99 USD. 5410 words. Published on November 5, 2010. .

One strange girl. One strange island. Monsters thrown into the pit at the end of Main Street. One winter, everything changes -- but not for the better. A short story by the award-winning author of Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories. Originally published in Asimov's magazine.Tangent Recommended Reading List.
The Freel of Streel: Part One in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 65650 words. Published on November 19, 2010. .

It is always advisable, when you are a conman, to make sure that the town that you're about to try to con does not have a land such as Streel hidden within it. For if it does, you may find yourself trying to escape your mind in an incomprehensible land with a left-handed scribe, being forced to deal with lexically picky ants, Kweengs, and the Freel on your journey through your fears, God and love.
Ethereal Worlds    by R. L. Copple
Price: $5.99 USD. 59380 words. Published by rlcopple on December 28, 2010. .

Discover 25 space-opera-style science fiction and fantasy stories from the pen of R. L. Copple. His unique perspective creates unordinary experiences on journeys into other worlds. Whether reading about an angel trying to marry a dragon and a dragon-slayer, a super-hero spoof set in space, or a man driven to bring renegades to justice, one thread runs through them all: a fun read.
Birthright    by RJ Palmer
Price: Free! 124750 words. Published on January 15, 2011. .

What if the next stage of evolution was caused by the oversight of man and what if that oversight was a simple medical mistake?
Claustrum: Part Two in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61290 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Claustrum, a superhero with a strange power, the ability to control people with strange, elegiac mixtures of words, seemingly randomly shows up in the city of Dioma, not knowing where he came from or why he is there. The city is then beleaguered by the cruel villain Sine Animus, who is immune to Claustrum's powers over words. Claustrum flees the city and is forced to seek his own personal truth.
The Polyglot's Nightmares: Part X½ in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60080 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

Fleeing a war and in search of himself, Ion finds himself residing in a number of strange caves, on the walls of which are written a strange language. He meets a woman who guides him through his state of being a refugee and is troubled by strange dreams that seem to incorporate the existence of the war, his love for the woman he has met and a sense of the divine.
The Quite Possibly Near Death of Hurol Davelrish: Part Three in the Narrative of John of Origin    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 61010 words. Published on January 16, 2011. .

When an arrogant stuntman, Hurol Davelrish, has a seizure during a stunt, he finds himself in the kingdom of Scalter, a land in which he is king, but which is strangely ruled by a phantasmic man named Viscount Vaunt. Hurol meets a strangely kind friend, Grib, in the malevolent world, who tries to pull him back from the ledge of his pride - what will become of the much-admired stuntman?
The House of Nameless    by Jason Fischer
Price: Free! 6950 words. Published on February 21, 2011. .

A dinner at a minotaur's house brings an unwelcome intruder. Raoul Mithras, a godling both old and new, is forced to pursue an old foe across a surreal landscape, hoping to prevent the awakening of the One-Way-World - if he is not destroyed first. This story was a winner in the "L Ron Hubbard presents the Writers of the Future" contest, and first appeared in WOTF Vol XXVI.