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Birthday Snakes    by Ann Morven
Price: $0.99 USD. 4940 words. Published by Darling Newspaper Press  on May 19, 2009. .

Hired to sing for a sultan, professional entertainer and amateur sleuth Sheil B. Wright is accused of stealing his priceless birthday jewels. To clear her name she must find the real thief, but an angry cobra has its own deadly agenda.
The War    by Rolf McEwen
Price: $0.99 USD. 9400 words. Published on February 10, 2010. .

This one-act play presents a dramatic dialogue about US involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five college students, four men and one woman, debate various war issues. Ron challenges each of his friends to join him in a march against the wars scheduled to take place in Portland, Oregon, where the participants are college students.
The Aton Bird    by Jane Palmer
Price: $2.99 USD. 83550 words. Published by Dodo Books on October 22, 2010. .

Ahmose looks after the menagerie at the temple of Amon Ra and is a secret devotee of the Aton. The vengeful Ra transforms him into a golden bird damned to live forever and only turn into a man for a few days every five centuries. The curse of Ra is also drawn down onto those Ahmose encounters. The alchemists, Helen Maat and Dinan, and the soldier, Gerard Jorden, are also condemned to immortality.
Kingdoms Peril, The Slayer Series, Book III    by Christopher Lapides
Price: $6.99 USD. 208190 words. Published on October 31, 2010. .

Justice. The wizard that caused Callobus so much pain is dead, his mother has been freed and a town was saved, but there are those whose eyes are still on the warrior. He has vowed to find his sister and make those in charge of the wizard pay dearly for their crimes. Will he risk everything for a woman he never really knew? A new love has entered his life...
An Enlightening Lie About the Lucidity of Bees    by Ian Kraft
Price: $2.50 USD. 60270 words. Published on January 18, 2011. .

Crofton Eer, a member of a militaristic society set in a canyon that knows only war, seeks an escape from the troubled canyon in which he lives, guided by the embodiment of the lone star that is visible from the canyon depths. His escape takes him on a journey in which he discovers that there are a great many more stars (gods) in the sky, which leads to a search for truth in the valley of life.
How to be a Lighthouse    by Martin Auer
Price: $2.99 USD. 24580 words. Published on February 14, 2011. .

26 hilarious stories with a philosophical twist: How to Be a Lighthouse - The World’s Most Famous Man - The Convent of Illumination - Questions You Had Better Not Ask - An Introduction to Magic and others. The stories were written for Martin Auer's monthly column on creative thinking in India's "Parenting" magazine.
Virtue    by Kato
Price: $1.00 USD. 1180 words. Published on March 27, 2011. .

Who is the virtuous man, and how does his virtue affect himself and the world around him? Throughout history, men have believed themselves to be just, yet in actuality their virtues mask cruel depravity on a scale seen over and over across history through the form of despotic rules and indifferent populations. How has this come about? In "Virtue", Kato ponders these questions of virtue.
Mean Marvin    by Sarah Quelland
Price: $0.99 USD. 890 words. Published on June 2, 2011. .

Marvin enjoys being a wicked little boy. He's disrespectful to everyone and everything. One day he hatches the wickedest plan of them all. But sometimes even the best laid plans backfire. Ultimately, Marvin learns a lesson that changes his whole life.
Soulguard Black    by Dana Harvey
Price: $0.99 USD. 67160 words. Published on August 10, 2011. .

A young man wakes on the morning of his eighteenth birthday to be cast into a world of turmoil caused by a war between the Gods and the Demons. As his epic journey begins, Roderick finds himself racing against time to complete a journey that will take him to far away lands, show him a world of horrors, and bring him very strange allies, all in order to save the world and end all war forever.
An Angel of Mercy    by Thomas Hanna
Price: $6.99 USD. 113650 words. Published on March 7, 2012. .

An abrasive lawyer learns about himself and finds he has an unexpected role to play while defending a good man falsely accused of a crime by the local rich lady out to prove she owns the small town. The accused denies the charge but is reluctant to fight back because of his past. The attorney gives him the message he desperately needs to hear so they can win this fight and get on with life.