The Last Great Lemonade-Stand Showdown    by Richard Alan Dickson
Price: $2.99 USD. 10450 words. Published by Grey Cat Press  on February 17, 2012. .
Southern California. Summer, 1962. With "Big Al" Torres and his squirt-gun-toting goons moving to corner the Thirty-Ninth Street lemonade-stand racket, Bobbie Johnston's gears up for war. And this summer, Bobbie has help: a half-brother from the deep south... a kid who knows his way around squirt guns and water balloons. The turf war is on. Let the battle begin.

Heroes, Hags, and Wise Guys    by Richard Alan Dickson
Price: $5.99 USD. 22190 words. Published by Grey Cat Press  on May 5, 2012. .
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, from the superhero to the teenager screwing up his courage to ask a girl out on that dreaded first date. Wise guys come in all shapes and sizes too, but most don't drive cars or carry guns. Some fly. Others toss water balloons. Hags, however, are hags. There's only one kind. This collection includes five short stories of Heroes, Hags and Wise Guys.