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The Rift    by Kim Antieau
Price: $6.99 USD. 50360 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on November 17, 2012. .
Maggie lives on the edge of Tucson where she edits technical manuals and creates medicine from desert plants until one morning when she hears her dead dog barking, a stranger shows up in her driveway, and an unexplainable rift appears in the land, separating Maggie and her neighbors from the rest of the world.
Ruby's Imagine    by Kim Antieau
Price: $6.99 USD. 35890 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on September 29, 2012. .
Ruby Butterfly, this jeweled metamorphosis of a cattypillar, landed on a bright green wisteria leaf like some kind of winged oracle and looked straight at me . . .We understood each other down deep to our transfigured and transforming cellular parts, and I knew the Big Oaks had told Ruby Butterfly and now she was letting me in on the not-so-secret secret: a storm was coming.
The Old Mermaids Book of Days and Nights: A Daily Guide to the Magic and Inspiration of the Old Sea, the New Desert, and Beyond    by Kim Antieau
Price: $7.99 USD. 23920 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on September 21, 2012. .
Kim Antieau guides you through a year of wisdom, humor, beauty, inspiration, and love in these daily quotes from her own writings featuring the Old Mermaids and other wise and mystical characters from her books. See what gifts Grand Mother Yemaya Mermaid, Sister Laughs A Lot Mermaid, Mother Star Stupendous Mermaid, Sister Sheila Na Giggle Mermaid, and others have to share with you all year long.
The Desert Siren    by Kim Antieau
Price: $7.99 USD. 69310 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on September 9, 2012. .
After Consuelo Johnson's husband leaves her, she comes awake to her true soul-full life by searching for a herd of mythical "sea" horses on her land in the Arizona borderlands.
Whackadoodle Times    by Kim Antieau
Price: $6.99 USD. 53370 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on July 27, 2012. .
Brooke’s well-constructed dysfunctional life in Hollywood begins to unravel when a homeless woman knocks on her door and the studio asks her to sex up her husband’s script for Zombie Town, the movie he believes will save the world. Then there’s the raging wildfires, earthquakes, & zombies, oh my! It may be just another week in Hollywood, but it could be the most important week of Brooke’s life.
Butch    by Kim Antieau
Price: $6.99 USD. 57200 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on June 24, 2012. .
Anything can happen in the weird & wonderful town of Santa Tierra, NM, in 1918, where Butch McLean protects the residents of Wayward Ranch, finds lovin’ in the arms and up the skirts of her beloved Angel, and keeps one step ahead of the possibly supernatural jaguar who may or may not be stalking her. Come hell or high water, Butch will rescue any dude or damsel in distress with humor and aplomb.
Jewelweed Station    by Kim Antieau
Price: $7.99 USD. 73370 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on May 28, 2012. .
After Callie’s parents die in an accident near their plantation in Virginia, the 17-year-old returns home to find that she is a ward of her loathsome aunt and uncle. She plays the part of the fool until she can figure out how to save herself and her home. Can she outsmart her nefarious relatives and help escaping slaves or will one more family secret destroy everything Callie knows and loves?
Tales Fabulous and Fairy, Volume 1    by Kim Antieau
Price: $4.99 USD. 23830 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on April 30, 2012. .
Enter the enchanting and exotic world of Kim Antieau’s imagination in these eight stories inspired by classic folk and fairy tales. This collection includes: “Foundling,” “Seeing Pink,” “Briar Rose,” “Dragon Pearl,” “Rose Red and Snow White,” “The Señorita and the Cactus Thorn,” “The Raven Sisters,” and “A Strange Attractor.”
Mourning Period    by Kim Antieau
Price: $2.99 USD. 8680 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on April 3, 2012. .
Calder moves from Boston to the Oregon coast to be alone and mourn the recent death of his wife, Tara. Only he is not alone: Tara is haunting him. At first this comforts him. But then things begin to change. Includes bonus story: “The Girl in the Red Coat.”
The Girl in the Red Coat    by Kim Antieau
Price: $2.99 USD. 8680 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on April 3, 2012. .
Bus driver Ed Samuels is tired of working overtime just because someone is killing women in Ann Arbor. Why is it his problem? One night he refuses to wait for a woman who is trying to get to the bus stop. The next morning he hears on the news that another woman has disappeared. Is it the same woman? The same woman he now sees everywhere he goes? Includes bonus story: “Mourning Period.”
Sister Faye Mermaid and the Sleeping Beauties    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 2010 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on March 20, 2012. .
The Old Sea dried up and the Old Mermaids washed up on the shores of the New Desert and created a new home and a new life. In the midst of all of this one night, Sister Faye Mermaid cannot sleep and wonders what this new life will mean for her. (These Old Mermaids first appeared in Church of the Old Mermaids. This story is from The First Book of Old Mermaids Tales.)
Entangled Realities    by Kim Antieau
Price: $5.99 USD. 29790 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on March 13, 2012. .
Short story masters Kim Antieau and Mario Milosevic combine their talents in this extraordinary collection of fantastic tales. These stories originally appeared in Asimov’s SF, Twilight Zone Magazine, Shadows, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, and The Clarion Awards.
The Involuted Man    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 4320 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on March 11, 2012. .
When the widower Ebbers volunteers to participate in a drug experiment to enhance memory, all Ebbers wants is to remember his life with his wife, even though the scientists warn him that he may be getting more than he bargained for.
The Gambler's Tale    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 3660 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on March 11, 2012. .
Amanda’s aunt gives her a magic dice that will help Amanda make any decision she needs to make in her life. Amanda uses the dice to pick her career and decide if she should marry Alex or not. When her daughter Laura wants to use the dice for her own life decisions, Amanda must decide if the dice has truly been a boon in her life or a convenient crutch.
A Leash of Lovers    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 5070 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on March 6, 2012. .
Samuel and Richard have been together for centuries, bound by the disease that makes them vampires. One evening, they meet their new neighbor, Caroline, and everything changes. This story was originally published in Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction.
Occupant    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 3580 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on March 6, 2012. .
Peter Gibson wants to be alone. He leaves his girlfriend and his job in California to become the great American writer living in a small town in New England. But Peter soon learns that being anonymous and alone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. This story was originally published in the anthology Doom City edited by Charles L. Grant.
How the Clouds Became Domesticated    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 4230 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on March 4, 2012. .
Lisa’s wife Carl brings home a cloud. The cloud messes up Lisa’s living room and is a nuisance to have around. But as time goes on, Lisa grows to like the cloud. When they find abandoned aircraft and old kites in the cloud, things start to really get weird. And when Carl disappears, Lisa knows life will never be the same for her, for Carl, or the cloud.
Queen of the Boneyard    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 4560 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 29, 2012. .
Star is tired of her life with her mother on the carnival circuit. Her father is long gone after beating both Star and her mother some years back. The only bright spots in Star’s life are her memories of Grandma Macha—and those were beginning to fade—and her boyfriend Dragon. When Star’s mother picks up another dangerous stranger, can Star remember her true nature before it’s too late?
Miniatures    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $5.99 USD. 42200 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 29, 2012. .
Mario Milosevic, acclaimed poet and short story writer, offers 41 very short stories in this gem-packed volume. By turns funny, fantastic, witty, fabulous, and poignant, these brief tales—some of which have previously been published in magazines, anthologies, and websites—are guaranteed to intrigue, amuse, and move.
Under the Mask    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 4270 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 26, 2012. .
Helen wakes up one morning with an urge to get rid of her husband, Jerry. She kicks Jerry until he leaves. As she breaks dishes, lamps, dressers, and doors, Jerry looks for a way back into his house, but his efforts are complicated by a neighbor with the same destructive urges as Helen. As Helen and the neighbor destroy his house, Jerry has to fight them both if he wants his old life back.
Sarah, Unbound    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 3540 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 21, 2012. .
Sarah panics when she has a dream about her young client, Paul, who is in therapy after he saw his mother kill herself. What if she is really like her father and brother, both of them child-molesters? Sarah must learn to free herself from her past so she can save herself and young Paul. (This was originally published in the anthology Borderlands 2.)
Windows    by Kim Antieau
Price: $2.99 USD. 6190 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 21, 2012. .
Members of the mission to the planet Perez need to determine if the sloth-like native Perans are intelligent. Everyone except Beth, the mission translator, wants to finish the job and move on. When she decides to “go native,” she puts everyone, including the Perans, in danger. Then it’s up to Castillo, the mission protection agent, to decide the fate of the Perans. Is it too late to save Beth?
Hollows    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 2200 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 21, 2012. .
Faith lives alone on the Oregon coast after the tragic death of her husband Jack. She is like a ghost in her own home until a strange young man shows up on her doorstep. (This story was originally published in Weird Tales.)
Swans in Winter    by Kim Antieau
Price: $6.99 USD. 64250 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 21, 2012. .
Nature lover India Lake begins a passionate affair with Benjamin Swan, a mysterious photographer. When a shadowy lumber company threatens the swans near India’s home, India and her friends pose nude for a calendar to raise money to fight the company. But then India uncovers a secret that threatens the swans and India's love for Benjamin.
Before the Birds    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $2.99 USD. 5380 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 19, 2012. .
Tom’s parents want to teach him the value of life. They present him with a bill for his upbringing, to be paid beginning on his 18th birthday. Tom accepts the bill and takes it with him on his walk around the neighborhood. That’s when he’s confronted with a shotgun-toting neighbor afraid of burglars. With his very existence hanging in the balance, Tom gets a true lesson in the value of life.
Blossoms    by Kim Antieau
Price: $2.99 USD. 5180 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 17, 2012. .
Mara is dying, the victim of a painful disease that has fused her bones together. Only in free fall can she move without pain. As a zero-G dancer on a space station, Mara meets a mysterious Japanese gardener and his cat, Magic. People say he can fix anything. Can he heal Mara or is it too late?
Bloodletting    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 1930 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 14, 2012. .
Things started going badly for Anna after the car accident. For one thing, she started noticing all the strange things happening in her community: People were killing one another. For another thing, Anna’s blood was beginning to talk to her, and she did not like what it was saying.
Cariño    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 3290 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 14, 2012. .
Cully and Jake welcome into their home David, a refugee fleeing from the atrocities in El Salvador. Cully feels an inexplicable kinship with David who has lost most of his family in the bloody war. But is he safe with them on the Oregon coast, so far from his homeland?
Desire    by Kim Antieau
Price: $2.99 USD. 5390 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 14, 2012. .
She comes to stay at the lighthouse keeper’s old home because the ghosts of the place have been calling her for many years; now she’s ready to hear what they have to say. The ghosts do begin appearing, only they don’t act like they’re dead at all. As she follows the lives of these women who have been dead a hundred years or more, she begins to come alive again.
The Restless Wanderer    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 4380 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 12, 2012. .
An astronaut returns from Mars and everything changes. He loses his memory, paper robots skitter everywhere, and is kept in a rudimentary cell against his will. When he escapes his incarceration he encounters an entourage of forest dwellers who promise to reveal the truth to him no matter what it will cost him. Meanwhile the wasps have plans of their own and they are swarming.
At a Window Facing West    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 4280 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 10, 2012. .
On a vacation in Mexico, Maggie has no patience for her fearful brother-in-law until one night when she witnesses something that changes her life forever. Now she is afraid, too. But will facing her fears be the beginning of her healing or the end of her life? (This story first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.)
Hauntings    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 4860 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 10, 2012. .
Kate Hein keeps hearing someone calling her name in the old farmhouse where she lives alone. Is the place haunted or is something wrong with her? One night a group of ghostly figures shimmer into view. They’re sitting around a table at what looks like a séance—and they’re calling Kate Hein’s name.
Cycles    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 2250 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 8, 2012. .
She won’t eat. Her mother and grandmother try to get her to eat something, but she refuses. If she doesn’t eat, maybe the thing growing inside of her will die. She is not her mother or her grandmother, despite appearances to the contrary. One way or another she will change her family’s cycles.
Fractures    by Kim Antieau
Price: $2.99 USD. 5560 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 7, 2012. .
Adam loves Lina and Lina loves Adam. Unfortunately, Lina is one of three personalities inhabiting the body of Teresa who is growing increasingly unhappy with her life. She wants Lina and Nick (the third personality) gone. On top of that, Lina keeps talking about her long dead love Russell. Everyone seems haunted by their pasts. Or is something more ghostly going on?
Hail Mary    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 3950 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 5, 2012. .
For Clarice, football is a religion and game day is like going to church. She even dons a VR suit plugged into her team’s quarterback to enhance her sacred experience. For her husband Grant, football is little more than an amusement. He does not understand Clarice’s obsession. When Grant undertakes to sabotage her VR experience of Super Bowl Sunday, no one on or off the field will be safe.
The Mark of the Beast    by Kim Antieau
Price: $2.99 USD. 5050 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 3, 2012. .
On his way to M. Garnier’s chateau, Jean-Jacques Rieux gets lost in the forest and is rescued by a mysterious woman who turns out to be Garnier’s much younger wife, Marie. Garnier claims she has the mark of the beast on her because her parents were killed by werewolves. As Rieux observes Garnier’s cruel treatment of his wife, he begins to wonder which one of them is the beast.
Trudging to Eden    by Kim Antieau
Price: $2.99 USD. 6630 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 3, 2012. .
Erin Ryan is hired by a rich and powerful woman to find her kidnapped genetically altered son, Benjamin Grey, who can “sing like an angel.” Ryan and her partner Walker are soon tracking Benjamin across the galaxy. As they get closer to finding him, Ryan begins to wonder if Benjamin Grey might be the cure she’s been seeking for all of her life.
Out of the Womb    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 4000 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on February 2, 2012. .
Carey lives on the generation spaceship Mercury with her parents and thousands of other space travelers. Her parents are Colonists who believe they have a right to leave the ship and colonize a habitable planet. The Counselors, who make the laws and govern the ship, refuse to let anyone go. Negotiations break down between the two sides. Soon violence erupts, and Carey’s life is changed forever.
Weedhead    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $2.99 USD. 5650 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 31, 2012. .
Owlspeak, once a feared warrior and protector of the land, battles a crippling illness that keeps her indoors, out of the natural world. When Weedhead, a young would-be warrior, arrives at her shack seeking her gift, Owlspeak treats her with scorn. But Weedhead slowly endears herself to Owlspeak until Owlspeak asks Weedhead for the ultimate gift: a peaceful end to her wretched existence.
The Crying Stone    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 3550 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 26, 2012. .
The old gargoyle hangs by the courtyard, cold and silent, but not dead. The spark of life burns inside him. When an old man approaches the gargoyle looking for wisdom, the gargoyle must decide how much of the truth to reveal. His answer will change the old man’s life forever.
The Infinite Garden    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 4320 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 21, 2012. .
Ralph decides to take up gardening as a way to escape his fear of the spiders in his house. But when his garden gets out of hand and he needs to build an infinite greenhouse to enclose it, things get very weird. Then an encounter with a spider brings terror back into his life and Ralph must find a way to save his own sanity.
Claypot Dreamstance    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $7.99 USD. 74240 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 18, 2012. .
Once a well-liked artist with a charmed existence, Claypot Dreamstance’s life cracks wide open when his young daughter dies in a drowning accident. Crippled by depression and grief, Claypot is on the verge of losing everything, including his life, when a couple decides to help him survive. They will succeed only if they can make Claypot see beauty in the world, even without his daughter in it.
Marble Angels    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 3150 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 14, 2012. .
A plastic surgeon receives a strange patient when a marble angel raps on her window and asks for a radical procedure. At first the surgeon is hesitant, but the charm and beauty of the statue changes her mind. She gives the marble angel what she wants. The procedure is a success, but the result is bittersweet. A haunting fantasy of the sacrifice love sometimes asks of us.
Her Frozen Wild    by Kim Antieau
Price: $8.99 USD. 88420 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 11, 2012. .
On a quest to unravel the mystery of why a 2,500 year old "mummy" uncovered in Siberia has her DNA, archaeologist Ursula Smith learns that the fate of the ancient shapeshifting People is in her hands and she must travel through the timeless caves to save them and the man she loves—even if it costs her her life.
The Kick    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 2820 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 7, 2012. .
Ever since he got kicked in the head as a young boy, John can’t shake the urge to kick people. His compulsion remains in check for most of his life until one evening when he encounters a particularly inept guitar player and the urge threatens to overwhelm him.
The Universe of Death    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 3090 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on January 2, 2012. .
Henry decides to spice up his space journey to the big crunch with a simulacrum of Amelia, his old girlfriend, and Death, his old nemesis. Everything goes along swimmingly for a while until Henry decides he’s bored and takes drastic measure. Then Death and Amelia have to fight it out to see who will survive and who will be deleted.
The Gaia Websters    by Kim Antieau
Price: $7.99 USD. 71310 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on December 6, 2011. .
Gloria Stone lives a good life in post-apocalypse America as the town healer until the governor demands she return to the governor’s place. When she refuses, many townspeople contract a mysterious illness. Gloria attempts to heal a man and instead kills him. She runs for her life until she begins to uncover the truth of her forgotten past and the genesis of her remarkable healing abilities.
The Last Last Meal    by Mario Milosevic
Price: $1.99 USD. 4260 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on December 4, 2011. .
Liz runs a greasy spoon near a prison where death row inmates wait to be executed. One night she takes an order for a last meal from a guy who is most likely innocent of the crime he is going to die for. Liz wants to make the meal as good as she possibly can, as a gift for his passing. But then she decides she needs to go to the prison and do something more substantial for the condemned man.
Sister Ruby Rosarita Mermaid and the Storytelling Soup    by Kim Antieau
Price: $1.99 USD. 4110 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on November 29, 2011. .
When the Old Sea dries up and the Old Mermaids find themselves on the New Desert, Sister Ruby Rosarita Mermaid discovers she can cook soups. And not just any soups, but soups infused with magic, joy, love, and sustenance. When the Peppermans come to live in the desert and the Javelina Conflict erupts, Sister Ruby discovers her soup is more magical than even she could ever have imagined.
The First Book of Old Mermaids Tales    by Kim Antieau
Price: $4.99 USD. 23720 words. Published by Green Snake Publishing  on November 29, 2011. .
THE OLD MERMAIDS left the disappearing Old Sea and stepped onto the New Desert where they exchanged their finware for skinware. With barely a backward glance, the mysterious and mystical Old Mermaids began building their sanctuary from earth, water, straw, and their own breath. These tales remind us of the beauty all around us.
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