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Love and Deceit: 10 Short Stories with Strategic Lies, Risky Tricks, and Tangled Lives | by William Mathis April 18, 2012 | $3.99 | 43836 words | Sample 15% |
| Combining deceit with relationships involving lovers, family, or friends can be devastating. But these short stories examine how the consequences for dishonesty, in its many forms, can vary widely and at times be humorous or bring surprising results. The context for deceit differs in each story as relationships fracture, survive, revive, or disintegrate. Sometimes, love simply overwhelms deceit. | |||||
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Dragomir's Diary - AFK: Away From Kingdom | by Matt Bird April 18, 2012 | $1.99 | 21118 words | Sample 20% |
| Dragomir the Guard is a video game character. And, like all good video game characters, he's managed to completely muck up his home with a deadly disease. Now Dragomir is off to save everyone by finding a cure... and this book isn't about that at all. What happened while Dragomir was away? And what's it like to listen to someone who isn't our bold hero for a change? | |||||
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The Bible For Breakfast | by David Hughes April 18, 2012 | $2.99 | 11336 words | Sample 20% |
| After being tasked with the creation of the world and everything in it, God begins to lose control over his creations. Through His chain smoking, whiskey fueled journey, he must reassert Himself as man's creator whilst finding time to deal with His problematic teenage son. Even with his faithful but morally downtrodden assistant, Peter, never more than a beer bottle top throw from His side... | |||||
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Fried Zombie Dee-light! Ghoulish, Ghostly Tales | by Susan Abel Abel-Sullivan April 18, 2012 | $2.99 | 10796 words | Sample 15% |
| A fun collection about ghouls, ghosts, zombies, and an advice column featuring dead letters from the lovelorn! You'll want to steer clear of Bubba's Cafe after you find out what they serve, and if you teach Group X, you'll be leery of job postings for Certified Zombie Instructors. Quiver, quake and chuckle at these quirky tales of the paranormal. | |||||
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A Squat Too Far | by Joe Micik April 18, 2012 | $0.99 | 2161 words | Sample 40% |
| Rich lifts weights and it’s his life. His hard work over the years has given him a chiseled body and a cute girlfriend. As he will learn, however, being beautiful has its blessings as well as curses. | |||||
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Bad Romance: 7 Deadly Sins Anthology | by Jess C Scott April 18, 2012 | $4.99 | 91815 words | Sample 8% |
| A pop culture inspired short story collection which links star-crossed lovers to each of the seven deadly sins. * * * Genre: Fiction (pop culture / contemporary / dark humor) 90,000 words * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. | |||||
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Never Gonna Give You Up (Pride) | by Jess C Scott April 18, 2012 | $2.99 | 8552 words | Sample 9% |
| A supermodel's 7-year marriage breaks down when her musician husband tires of being in the shadow of her spotlight. Part of the Bad Romance "7 Deadly Sins" anthology. * * * Genre: Fiction (pop culture / contemporary / dark humor) 7,000 words * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. | |||||
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Heart’s Blood (Anger) | by Jess C Scott April 18, 2012 | $2.99 | 15523 words | Sample 9% |
| A student plots to annihilate the cheating player that broke her former tutor's heart. A rape and revenge story. Part of the Bad Romance "7 Deadly Sins" anthology. * * * Genre: Fiction (pop culture / contemporary / dark humor) 14,000 words * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. | |||||
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Poor Little Rich Dude (Greed) | by Jess C Scott April 18, 2012 | $2.99 | 13095 words | Sample 9% |
| A young man leaves his lover behind when a winning lottery ticket transforms his life. Part of the Bad Romance "7 Deadly Sins" anthology. * * * Genre: Fiction (pop culture / contemporary / dark humor) 11,500 words * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. | |||||
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“I’m Pretty†(Envy) | by Jess C Scott April 18, 2012 | $2.99 | 12762 words | Sample 9% |
| A beautiful reality TV star indulges a new obsession when she rekindles an old flame. Part of the Bad Romance "7 Deadly Sins" anthology. * * * Genre: Fiction (pop culture / contemporary / dark humor) 11,000 words * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. | |||||
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The Champion (Sloth) | by Jess C Scott April 18, 2012 | $2.99 | 10991 words | Sample 9% |
| A gaming addict attempts to win at life when he meets his match and marries a fellow gamer. Part of the Bad Romance "7 Deadly Sins" anthology. * * * Genre: Fiction (pop culture / contemporary / dark humor) 9,500 words * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. | |||||
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Blind Leading Another (Lust) | by Jess C Scott April 17, 2012 | $2.99 | 13608 words | Sample 8% |
| A high-schooler getting gangbanged is unaware her secret crush is one of the participants. Part of the Bad Romance "7 Deadly Sins" anthology. * * * Genre: Fiction (pop culture / contemporary / dark humor) 12,000 words * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. | |||||
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Death by Cake | by Melanie Ray April 17, 2012 | $0.99 | 97630 words | Sample 20% |
| Hippie hero, death by sweets, never ending childhood for young and old, and an interesting hit on the newest resident? Welcome to Lost Secret girls and boys! | |||||
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The Contenders | by Neil Fraser Addison April 17, 2012 | $4.48 | 56220 words | Sample 20% |
| The Contenders is a darkly comic novel which holds up a crack’d mirror to present UK realities and absorbs the unsettling truth. Set in the coastal town of Southport, it follows the progress of three disturbed individuals, each with their modern cross to bear, and builds towards an explosive finale. | |||||
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Spalding's Scary Shorts (A humorous collection of horror tales) | by Nick Spalding April 17, 2012 | $1.57 | 34380 words | Sample 20% |
| FOUR TALES OF HORROR & HUMOUR FROM BEST SELLING AUTHOR NICK SPALDING! Feedback: A Vampire Story I, Zombie Dogs Of War Spine Slaughter | |||||
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Another Brick in the Wall | by Stefan Raicu April 16, 2012 | $4.99 | 85049 words | Sample 10% |
| Another Brick in the Wall†tells the humorous story of Dan Martin, a rugby player who defected from the Eastern Bloc and settled in Australia in the mid 1980s. | |||||
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Freedom Beer | by Greg X. Graves April 16, 2012 | $1.99 | 17591 words | Sample 20% |
| Hank Rockjaw has pursued evildoers around the globe, from the glacial majesty of the Swiss Alps to the enigmatic jungles of Papua New Guinea. But his latest and possibly greatest threat has arrived: a mysterious competitor who has been reverse engineering Rockjaw Brewery recipes. | |||||
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The Randomness: A Pseudo-Biographical Comprehension of a Man With Inconceivable Thoughts | by Alexander Van Elsacker April 16, 2012 | $3.00 | 18494 words | Sample 20% |
| This is a book that truly attempts to comprehend the vastness of humankind's reasoning, logic, and lack thereof through engaging examples that are understood only subconsciously. | |||||
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Like A Diamond | by Andrew Kelly April 14, 2012 | $2.99 | 62165 words | Sample 15% |
| Like thrillers infused with humor? Prefer mystery adventures blended with comedy? Love it liquidised with suspense and romance? Then 'Like A Diamond' is so for you! Hidden gemstones, exotic foreigners, erotic women, the intelligence services, ancient cultures - car chases down Karangahape Road - Wairoa motels ... 5-star Wellington hotels. It wasn’t in a day’s work for Pita Tyrone. Until it was. | |||||
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The War of the Lucrative Words | by Frankie Lassut April 14, 2012 | $0.99 | 17866 words | Sample 25% |
| Once again, in the name of decency, Frankie shrugs off fear and paints a metaphorical target on his forehead. This is a part true story about two warring towns where one is successful the other not in the grand tourist grant game. It’s all a based on a fib anyway as you will see dear reader ... A few sonnets for you enjoy too. | |||||
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Laughing My Ass Off 2 (L.M.A.O. 2) | by Vortex April 14, 2012 | $0.99 | 7209 words | Sample 20% |
| LMAO 2 (Laughing My Ass Off) is the second part of the collection of jokes you may or may not heard, but it is still fun to read. | |||||
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The Counterfeit Cavalier, Episode One: The Highwayman Came Riding | by Lydia M. Sheridan April 13, 2012 | $0.99 | 6833 words | Sample 15% |
| With the Grey Cavalier once more robbing coaches near the village of Oaksley, the populace is up in arms -- with joy. But when the mysterious Mr. Dalrymple arrives to investigate, the nefarious schemes of a certain young lady come crashing down about her ears. The Counterfeit Cavalier is a sweet Regency story presented in serial form. Episode One is 22 pages or 6740 words. | |||||
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60+ Och Singel | by Nina Backlund April 13, 2012 | $4.99 | 61974 words | Sample 15% |
| En hejdlös och huvudlös berättelse om Solveig, 60+, som kastar loss från tryggheten och tristessen i ett långt liv som arbetsnarkoman och seglar ut i det okända med målet att finna kärlek för en mogen kvinna. Här möter vi mormorgenerationens svar på Bridget Jones. Lika pigg på äventyr som hon, men med den luttrade kvinnans syn på tillvaron och med en stor portion humor. | |||||
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Laughing My Ass Off (L.M.A.O.) | by Vortex April 13, 2012 | $0.99 | 5219 words | Sample 20% |
| LMAO (Laughing My Ass Off) is a collection of jokes you may or may not heard, but it is still fun to read. | |||||
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All The Wrong Reasons | by George Berger April 12, 2012 | $1.44 | 10036 words | Sample 25% |
| Have you ever read one of those high-school romances where nobody ever finds happiness because of an endless series of mistakes, misunderstandings, and angsty teen hijinks? So has Henry, an otherwise reasonable high-school senior who'd rather kill himself than get caught up in a romantic-comedy nightmare. | |||||
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Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody | by Jess C Scott April 12, 2012 | $2.99 | 23293 words | Sample 7% |
| Isobel's fanfiction dream comes true when Edwin and Jacobus materialize out of thin air. But the two hunks secretly have the hots for each other... * * * Genre: Fiction (satire / parodies) | 22,000 Words * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. | |||||
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500 Dollars: The Devil's Contract (Part of the Paranormal Series) | by Rome April 11, 2012 | $0.99 | 13864 words | Sample 10% |
| Kenneth Small finds too late that when all deals are dead and gone, the last you need is a deal with the Devil. Once you're in, you're never out! 500 Dollars: The Devil's Contract promises a ride with some comic fun and mostly a dark lesson on the truth about contracts and about doing the right thing. | |||||
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My High School Reunion | by Wm. G. Thilgen Jr. (Bill) April 11, 2012 | Free! | 1862 words | Sample 10% |
| After high school most students grow up and put the experience behind them. This is a story of a couple of individuals that did not. | |||||
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Never Con a Corgi [Book 6, Leigh Koslow Mystery Series] | by Edie Claire April 11, 2012 | $3.99 | 74005 words | Sample 15% |
| In this first new addition to the series in a decade, hapless advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow is a contented middle-aged mom. But when a walk with her dog turns up the body of the unscrupulous real estate developer who plans to bulldoze her Aunt Bess's homestead, Leigh realizes that not only has she failed to outgrow her inborn talent for trouble... she's bestowed it on the next generation! | |||||
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Blossom Winters Is Driving on the Los Angeles Freeways and Other Short Stories | by Albert Zimbler April 11, 2012 | $1.99 | 67083 words | Sample 20% |
| “Blossom Winters Is Driving on the Los Angeles Freeways and Other Short Stories†is the second book of humorous fiction short stories about love and sex by comedy writer Albert Zimbler. His first book is “The Love Life of Howard Handsome and Other Short Stories.†Read stories from both books at www.AlZimblerComedy.com | |||||
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Double Deeling | by Jonathan Decoud April 11, 2012 | $1.57 | 65806 words | Sample 20% |
| Double Deeling is a novel about literature coming to life. Literally. It's a novel about an existential-hit-'person' (with a style complex), an author who’s been dead for a few hundred years, a philosophical text with a mind of its own, a very angry hotel manager from Geneva and some even angrier professors from Europe. Plus cricket in confined spaces. Oh, and a lot of drinking. | |||||
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Oneironauts | by Richard Nesberg April 11, 2012 | $1.99 | 34880 words | Sample 20% |
| When the characters in Thurston Tomas’ lucid dreamscape start believing they truly exist, he must enter his dreams to end their silly fantasies--or risk being trapped there, forever. | |||||
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Ask Grench | by Michael D. Britton April 10, 2012 | $2.99 | 3142 words | Sample 40% |
| Life as a galactic minion can be tough - you have to be cunning, wise, patient, conniving; and above all, willing to kiss a lot of backside. That's where Grench comes in. Not only is he the ultimate suck-up, but he has a foolproof plan to move up in the kingdom... | |||||
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The Twilight Lawns Chronicles | by Ian Dorking-Clark April 10, 2012 | $1.99 | 28265 words | Sample 15% |
| A series of tales concerning Twilight Lawns, Surrey. Residential Home for the Elderly, the Distressed, but most importantly, the Well Bred. Join the Residents at play. Take tea with Elspeth and Hermione. Marvel at the wisdom and organisational abilities of Maude. Join us at night for a last digestive biscuit and Senapod tea. Then Medication Time and bed. Good night! | |||||
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Everybody Hates You | by John Champlin April 10, 2012 | $1.99 | 112 words | Sample 40% |
| A full color illustrated children's book for grown ups. Makes a great gift! | |||||
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Cole And The Corgi Killer | by Alan Tootill April 10, 2012 | $3.20 | 82936 words | Sample 20% |
| Martin Cole has a new case. Three dogs have been poisoned on a Roselake housing estate. But his mind is soon taken off that problem by a call from a mother whose son has just been charged with murder. Soon Martin and his assistant Tanya are involved in another round of battles. And is romance in the air for Tanya? How can Martin keep his ex-wife under control and out of his hair? | |||||
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Love and the Art of War | by Dinah Lee Küng April 10, 2012 | $4.00 | 117415 words | Sample 15% |
| A London librarian is losing her job, her man and, possibly even her mind. Enrolling in an evening class, "Mending Marriage or Decent Divorce," Jane ends up by mistake with some oddball businessmen studying Sun Tzu's The Art of War and China's legendary Thirty-six Battle Stratagems. The distraught Jane has nothing to lose and in fact, gains more from Baldwin's coaching than she bargained for. | |||||
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Viper Girl vs. The Poltergeist Pirate Opossum of Plundering Peril | by Tony Saylor April 09, 2012 | $0.99 | 2104 words | Sample 20% |
| What do you do when a ninja suddenly appears in your kitchen? For Viper Girl, answering that question is only the first thing she has to do in an evening packed with action and surprises as she deals with a menacing ghostly villain and discovers a wonderful new friend. | |||||
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My Turn-ons Include Napalm | by Chris Dodson April 09, 2012 | Free! | 4212 words | Sample 20% |
| Nina's friend and his family are killed by a Brazilian drug cartel. She calls on her family's assets and on Fritz, her new found love, to avenge him and give some peace to the people of Brazil that sheltered her while running from her own enemies. This short takes place shortly after the "Prey for Vengeance" novel but serves as a standalone. | |||||
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Мечта цвеÌта “Белых штанов†| by Миша Том Лев April 09, 2012 | $0.99 | 18282 words | Sample 30% |
| Смешал юмор, Ñатиру и филоÑофию. Поперчил-поÑолил Ñтремлением удивлÑÑ‚ÑŒ. “Салатик†готов! Компактно и жизнерадоÑтно. ПриÑтного доÑуга! | |||||
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A Life Lived Ridiculously | by Annabelle Charbit April 09, 2012 | $4.89 | 72659 words | Sample 20% |
| When a girl with obsessive compulsive disorder falls in love with a sociopath, she must fight for her sanity and her life. | |||||
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Losing One's Appetite | by Sarina Dorie April 08, 2012 | You set the price! | 1371 words | Sample 10% |
| Losing One’s Appetite is a humorous horror story with a cowboy vampire who is having difficulty with his intended dinner. The story is under a thousand words. | |||||
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Not from Concentrate | by David Wallace Fleming April 08, 2012 | $2.99 | 58882 words | Sample 10% |
| Not from Concentrate is a collection of satirical stories exploring uniquely modern themes of technology and relationships. | |||||
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Panoptica | by Patrick Hudson April 08, 2012 | $3.99 | 88619 words | Sample 20% |
| Panoptica up-ends every dystopian cliché you've ever heard. It's a technicolour cartoon version of Brave New World. It's 1984 with knob gags. If you love sci fi satire in the best tradition of Pohl & Kornbluth, Douglas Adams and 2000AD, then Panoptica is the satirical novel of celebrity, surveillance and media manipulation you've been waiting for! | |||||
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Nicky, Sasquatch, and Pink Elephants | by J. Michael Green April 07, 2012 | $0.99 | 15392 words | Sample 20% |
| Unusual tales of Vietnam from a Recon Marine, including odd, weird, and humorous actual events told in a fictional setting. | |||||
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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow | by Barnabas Herbert April 07, 2012 | $1.99 | 12494 words | Sample 10% |
| He had to choose between living for himself and living for others, and terrible though the task laid upon him undoubtedly was, yet he knew that he must not suffer selfishness to triumph over love. Sooner or later we are all called upon to decide on the same issue - of us all, the same question is asked. The man who saw tomorrow, saw it yesterday...but that tomorrow may not come. | |||||
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Mr Wolf Presents My Wicked Guide to Life & Modern Fairy Tales for Adults | by Greg Flynn April 06, 2012 | $2.99 | 11786 words | Sample 8% |
| Mr Wolf's witty guide to life's more difficult challenges may improve your sex appeal and social skills. Or possibly not. PLUS ... Playful and engaging, Mr Wolf's modern fairytales will hopefully make your world less Grimm. "Mr Wolf Presents My Wicked Guide to Life & Modern Fairy Tales for Adults" is brought to you by Greg Flynn - the author of the widely-praised novel, "The Berlin Cross". | |||||
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The Clever Detective Boxed Set | by Linsey Lanier April 06, 2012 | $2.99 | 29197 words | Sample 10% |
| Enjoy all three of the top-selling Clever Detective stories by author Linsey Lanier in one boxed set: The Clever Detective, Clever Is As Clever Does, Cleverest of Them All! | |||||
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Skewed: Seven Sweetly Twisted Tales from the Tropics | by Jean Clarke April 06, 2012 | $2.99 | 22247 words | Sample 20% |
| A collection of deliciously perverse romantic stories with surprise endings to satisfy the reader's lust for revenge. | |||||
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Only in Manitou | by Tamarin Rand April 06, 2012 | $3.99 | 91459 words | Sample 20% |
| A fun-filled tale of the antics of an oddball but endearing cast of characters living in a small Colorado town where everybody knows everybody’s business. The story depicts how these comedic personalities unite to solve a mystery and perhaps save a little boy’s life. Discovering the past influences the present they use magic, greed, lust and imagination to achieve an all together weird conclusion. | |||||