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Their Hidden Agenda, The Story of a Chinese-American FBI Agent    by Robert Woo
Price: $9.95 USD. 171680 words. Published on January 11, 2009. .

It is every boy's dream to become an FBI agent, a career filled with adventures and excitement as shown on TV, but for Robert Woo, a former FBI Special Agent, there's something else to the package: betrayal. Their Hidden Agenda: The Story of a Chinese-American FBI Agent is a story about Woo's twenty-one year employment with the FBI and his struggle to start over after he was unjustifiably fired
Cell U.R. Tales from the Script    by Mark Plimsoll
Price: $7.00 USD. 88480 words. Published on February 27, 2010. .

A love story of our future as human cell-phones, a multi-media comedic satire of everything you love about B Movies and black-and-white thinking mixed with tomorrow's science and technology. A male Metroplexual loves two women; the belly-dancing Gypsy fortune teller Vampire Elvirus, and a SuperUser's beautiful, Wiccan, earth-mother daughter Louise, in the DevaState. Intelligent design evolves!
Melanie    by Jose Rodriguez
Price: Free! 64410 words. Published on March 24, 2010. .

A middle aged and lonely Melanie wakes up with no recollection of her past. Her lack of personal memories forces her to impersonate the old Melanie, a person who she now dislikes and cannot understand. The new Melanie proceeds to fool the world into thinking that nothing has changed while trying to recover her memories but also trying to reinvent herself as a new and improved person.
Belly of Fire    by Shafinaaz Hassim
Price: $2.99 USD. 30420 words. Published on March 17, 2011. .

Belly of Fire is an anthology of writing that draws on stories from women and men who navigate everyday stigma and social issues. We reach into the fire in our bellies, the anxieties in order to traverse life as we know it. Themes of abuse, xenophobia, female genital mutilation, forgiveness and reawakening are unpacked here in a collection of evocative poetry and compelling short stories
Tutaishi: The African Tale    by Khaya M. Gqibitole
Price: $6.95 USD. 38270 words. Published by Mondial  on May 19, 2011. .

An African story of shame, hope and triumph. A novel about a young girl, Theo, who manages to escape abuse from the Congo, where she has been in the hands of rebel soldiers. After many difficulties she travels to South Africa where she befriends and later falls in love with a young man, Qhama. They go through a number of hardships, including xenophobia, drugs, and HIV, but at the end they triumph.
Tall Buildings    by Vivian Davenport
Price: $0.99 USD. 61270 words. Published on July 30, 2011. .

In 1962, that quaint time of polio, carbon paper, and the Constitutional right to an attorney, Junemarie leaves the farm for Manhattan to become a career girl--and to find a husband.
Family    by M.C.A. Hogarth
Price: $2.99 USD. 25360 words. Published on October 27, 2011. .

Vasiht'h always thought himself lucky to have befriended one of the rare and fascinating Eldritch, so when Jahir invites him home for a cousin's wedding, he's eager for the chance to find out more about these enigmatic aliens. Naturally, he gets more than he bargains for; by the end of his trip, he'll either know all Jahir's secrets...or he'll be dead... A 92-page story in the Pelted Universe.
Black Hole Drive    by W. Strawn Douglas
Price: Free! 47050 words. Published on November 28, 2011. .

Black Hole Drive is my first novella in the science fiction genre. When I wrote it, I ‎thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread. Now that I have had a chance to let ‎it mellow with age a bit, I still like it - and feel that with a little work it could be ‎rewritten as something really enjoyable.‎
Turner    by Karl Drinkwater
Price: $3.00 USD. 68400 words. Published on November 29, 2011. .

An isolated Welsh island seems the perfect escape: however, on Ynys Diawl four visitors face a night of horror and madness. If they don't work together then none of them will live to see the light of day. Phil Rickman, on BBC Radio Wales' Phil The Shelf literary programme, likened it to "The Wicker Man in Wales".
I Met Steve Biko at Jan Visser Square    by Kenneth Madiebo
Price: $0.99 USD. 8020 words. Published on March 23, 2012. .

A drug bust against the Nigerians, takes place in Berea Johannesburg. One of the drug dealers throws out cocaine from his balcony and he gets arrested. The police demand bribe, and the dealer calls Orakwe to bring the money to the station. When Orakwe visits the 4th floor of the police station, he encounters an incredibly traumatic experience. ... And then he meets Steve Biko...