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A Dark Night    by Dwayne Phillips
Price: $0.99 USD. 3050 words. Published on February 22, 2011. .

A elderly man drags himself into a pharmacy late at night. The only employee present is a young man. A power failure locks them in the store. Then someone else enters unannounced.
Biscuits    by Dwayne Phillips
Price: $0.99 USD. 5070 words. Published on February 25, 2011. .

Tony felt for the homeless people he saw outside the window of his Washington D.C. office. He wanted to help feed them and figured that would be easy. It wasn't as easy as he thought.
The Greening    by Leslie Claire Walker
Price: $0.99 USD. 5570 words. Published by Secret Fire Press  on March 4, 2011. .

Birdie Beecham’s traitorous feet seed grass and weeds everywhere she walks. The town—last in a long line of new towns where she and her mother have moved—fears her. They’re convinced she’s not human and maybe she isn’t, but she wants to be. When her best (and only) friend tries to help solve the problem, both of them get more than they bargained for.
Underlife and Portico    by Michael Lynch
Price: $3.99 USD. 2890 words. Published by Aforementioned Productions  on March 4, 2011. .

Underlife and Portico is the debut chapbook by poet Michael Lynch. Through his quietly profound verse, Lynch catalogues the seemingly insignificant milestones in contemporary life, causing the reader to feel at once deeply flawed and lucky to be so. The collection includes Lost, Song of Suburbia, and Substantial Fascinators, among others.
Year of the Rooster    by Trevor Smith
Price: $4.99 USD. 51060 words. Published by Rebel Satori Press  on March 5, 2011. .

Year of the Rooster dismantles the illusions of security, predictabilityand anonymity that pacify humankind. It exposes common incarcerating binds of society. Greed. The Cubicle Effect. Our contentious relationship with money.
Hip Hop Tried 2 Kill Me    by Fleetwood 
Price: $9.99 USD. 61430 words. Published on March 6, 2011. .

The pursuit of hip hop stardom is a road many travel in the urban community. Taking their life in poverty, drugs, the attraction of crime, & setting it to music for the world to listen to. Only to discover that the music business is more cut throat than the corners in the hood they are trying so hard to escape. Ride along with Fleetwood as he deals with the ups & downs, ins & outs of the rap game.
Stories in the Key of C. Minor.    by Russell Bittner
Price: $2.99 USD. 44290 words. Published on March 11, 2011. .

Five short stories and one novella, all taking place within a radius of five miles from the original "Ground Zero" -- the Empire State Building in New York City, New York. Stories of passion, of intrigue, of coming-of-age, of murder by proxy/moxy. In short, stories of the human condition in all of its many-splendored glory. Adult situations, but none of them unsuitable for anyone with a heart.
665    by Hayden Duvall
Price: $2.99 USD. 92270 words. Published on March 12, 2011. .

Less than 24hrs after his arrest for the brutal slaying of two people he didn't even know, Jack Last was catapulted into a hidden world of murder and magic, a world ruled by a sinister criminal aristocracy know as "The Numbered." Smart, fast-moving and inventive, 665 takes the reader on a journey where nothing is ever quite as it seems, and where fate is little more than a four-letter word.
On the Other Hand    by Jean Gill
Price: $3.99 USD. 30590 words. Published on March 13, 2011. .

A mix of gripping story with fascinating facts on left-handedness.Everyone should think left-handed - or so 14 year old Jamie thought when she tied her hand behind her back for a day-long protest in school, against persecution of left-handers over the centuries. When her friend Ryan faces bullying at its most deadly, their research into prejudice takes an unexpected and dangerous turn.
The Queen Bee of Bridgeton    by Leslie DuBois
Price: $2.99 USD. 57210 words. Published on March 16, 2011. .

When fifteen-year-old Sonya Garrison is accepted into the prestigious Bridgeton Academy, she soon discovers that rich girls are just as dangerous as the thugs in her home of Venton Heights. After catching the eye of the star, white basketball player and unwittingly becoming the most popular girl in school, she earns the hatred of the three most ruthless and vindictive girls at Bridgeton.