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Deck of Lies, Book 1: Justice | by Jade Varden Feb. 07, 2012 | $0.99 | 62481 words | Sample 20% |
| When you build an entire life on a foundation of lies, it only takes one truth for the whole thing to come crashing down. I never invited the truth in. I never went searching for it. I never had any reason to suspect that the two people I loved most were dishonest with me every second of every day. | |||||
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Drunk and Fed Up | by Monica P Feb. 07, 2012 | $1.00 | 1501 words | Sample 15% |
| Rayleen walks away from a house where her husband sits drunk. Her husband Craig sneers at what he is left with a beer and a daughter who looks like a child. He drinks to see straight, and he grows mad. | |||||
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Taking Charge During War | by Monica P Feb. 02, 2012 | $0.99 | 1224 words | Sample 15% |
| Ashley notices there are heaps of dark people. There are many, and she wonders why they are around, and what is happening. | |||||
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The Yellow Canvas | by Marysue Hobika Jan. 30, 2012 | Free! | 2225 words | Read a sample |
| A modern day short story based on the original short story “The Yellow Wallpaper†by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. A young woman is keeping a journal in her English class and uses it as a way to analyze her feelings about the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper†and how it is parallel to her own life. In the journal she explores her feelings as she creates her own Yellow Canvas. | |||||
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Leslie and the Lion | by Jennifer Walker Jan. 29, 2012 | $0.99 | 7973 words | Sample 25% |
| When Leslie and her friends encounter a mountain lion during a trail ride on their horses, they run for their lives. Unfortunately, they soon find themselves hopelessly lost--and getting more lost with every turn. Can they find their way out of the woods and back to Green Meadow before it gets dark or the mountain lion comes back? | |||||
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Kiss Kiss | by Gwen Grant Jan. 29, 2012 | Free! | 5347 words | Read a sample |
| Set in the 1950s, when sixteen year old Lamour stumbles across a secret love affair she finds herself in great danger. | |||||
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Sketchbook Girl | by Sharra Veltheer Jan. 29, 2012 | $1.99 | 18465 words | Sample 15% |
| Elliot is an outcast at her school, bullied by twins and friendless until Xander transfers and begins to talk to her. | |||||
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Willy's Magic | by J M Naszady Jan. 28, 2012 | $4.99 | 35250 words | Sample 20% |
| Willy turns thirteen, and resorts to magical thinking when life gets complicated: "Everything will be different at the end of the summer." But Willy knows that different doesn't always mean better, and discovers the magic of trust and hope with Kai. They build their own world of music, friendship, and love as they search for a common path toward the future. | |||||
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The Clog Skates | by warne wilson Jan. 25, 2012 | $0.99 | 3120 words | Sample 20% |
| The story of Hans Ruyg and the gruelling 200 kilometre ice skating race in Holland, his sweetheart Gretchen, their wedding and their immigration to Australia in 1954. They make a new life in Melbourne and when their two children grow to the ages of eight and nine, they take them to an ice skating rink where Hans amazes them. After Hans' death as an old man, the family searches for his clog skates. | |||||
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Olympia | by Nathan L. Henry Jan. 22, 2012 | $4.99 | 44160 words | Sample 10% |
| Two broken teens find true love after a horrifically violent murder occurs. David Gladstone was there that night, and the killer was his best friend, but he has no idea why the murder happened. With his best friend in jail and his life in danger, David searches for answers, loses everything he thought was important, and gains something he never imagined—a genuine love and a real future. | |||||
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Puertorican Villains | by M.A. GONZALEZ Jan. 21, 2012 | Free! | 40284 words | Read a sample |
| PUERTORICAN VILLAINS is a window in the life of the youth in the South Bronx. Told through the eyes of Benjamin “Benny†Marquez during a pivotal summer on the hot and dense streets of The Grand Concourse in the South Bronx – a summer that changes not only Benny’s life, but the lives of everyone around him. | |||||
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Blood Stained Walls | by Shelby Nultemeier Jan. 21, 2012 | Free! | 823 words | Read a sample |
| A short story telling of a sister preventing suicide and confessing the sins of a rapist. | |||||
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According to [[You]] We’re {Definable} | by Amy Tuso Jan. 20, 2012 | $2.99 | 105981 words | Sample 25% |
| Zoe is surrounded by pom-pom waiving friends and guys who value bodies more than brains. Rather than being the one that makes sense, she feels like the crazy one. Zoe finds herself with an irrational crush while trying to help a friend. Her calm demeanor is shaken as her emotions are brutalized, and her take charge personality must be reined in to save a friend from herself. Some scars change us. | |||||
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Aaron Harrison's Mystical Quill | by Daniel Heck Jan. 20, 2012 | $0.99 | 17608 words | Sample 15% |
| A frustrated teen converts an ordinary feather to a writing quill, and finds that its creative powers may just solve his problems. But with demanding parents, an oblivious love interest and a crumbling friendship to deal with, life quickly becomes more than he bargained for. | |||||
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The Desert | by Catrin Hickenbottom Jan. 18, 2012 | $2.99 | 49852 words | Sample 15% |
| April Merridew can handle a lot of things. She can even possibly handle the (almost) end of the world as we know it. But then something awful happens: Her rebel group is betrayed by someone she is close to. Shattered and drowning in her own insecurities, April is forced to make a choice. Can she let go of her past and become the leader the resistance needs, or will she lose her soul along the way? | |||||
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Anders | by Patrick Brannigan Jan. 18, 2012 | $0.99 | 2028 words | Sample 20% |
| Bruno is anders. Zijn ouders zijn slim en slank, maar hij is dom en dik. Zijn moeder kan zijn aanwezigheid niet verdragen, zijn vader is altijd op reis. Bruno is eenzaam. Wat is het geheim van zijn afkomst? Wil hij er eigenlijk wel achter komen? Misschien kunnen sommige geheimen beter geheim blijven. | |||||
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Trisha's Bad Day | by Monica P Jan. 18, 2012 | $1.00 | 1008 words | Sample 15% |
| Trisha has a bad day. She gets fired, and then she meets up with her friend. She can only have bad times despite his cheering personality. | |||||
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Danger, Dancing and Dreams | by Timothy Paterson Jan. 17, 2012 | $0.99 | 4366 words | Sample 20% |
| Allie was an ordinary girl, who daydreamed of dancing withe the cutest boy in her class. However, when she began dreaming of danger, while she slept, she realized that she had to do whatever it took to prevent tragedy from striking. | |||||
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In A Hurry To Wait | by Laura Chechak-Roy Jan. 17, 2012 | $1.99 | 9278 words | Sample 20% |
| There comes a time when everyone needs to make a choice about their future. In order to move on you need to forgive yourself for mistakes you feel you have made. If we didn’t make any bad choices in our lifetime it would be a pretty boring life to lead and who would want to read about that tale? | |||||
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The Accident | by Monica P Jan. 16, 2012 | $1.00 | 999 words | Sample 15% |
| Ashley pays after she hits a person lightly with her car. Her friend Pearl beins to worry as she reads about the event from knock to break. | |||||
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I Am Pregnant | by Monica P Jan. 15, 2012 | $1.00 | 1465 words | Sample 15% |
| Trisha asks her boyfriend for some money. He asks what it's for. She whispers she is pregnant. He stiffens as his eyes grow black. It was not what he had expected. | |||||
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Life Blood | by S. Jean Brenner Jan. 13, 2012 | $4.99 | 76916 words | Sample 10% |
| A young adult story of love, romance, and strange - even eeerie happenings. | |||||
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Adam's Surprise | by Monica P Jan. 13, 2012 | $1.00 | 1493 words | Sample 15% |
| Adam grows stoned on some medication pills. He doesn't realise that soon he will open the door to a big surprise. Book six that comes after 'Adam's Allergies'. | |||||
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Physics for Poets | by Nick Darcy-Fox Jan. 13, 2012 | $2.99 | 60567 words | Sample 20% |
| Charl spends the remainder of the steamy school holidays seeking out drinking crèches, oblivious to the relationship disintegrating in front of him. On Christmas day in South Africa’s surfer town, Durban he summons the dead, and with a kiss in a cemetery seals his fate. When he meets the girl of his dreams her games force him to make choices and face the family secret his lies have kept him safe | |||||
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Outbound | by Gil Hardwick Jan. 12, 2012 | $2.49 | 32549 words | Sample 10% |
| A strange white boy arrives suddenly in a remote outback community, driving an old truck with a dead body in the back and a fortune in gems stashed under the chassis. Who is he, and what is he doing way out there? | |||||
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Sleepless Beauty | by Ramisa Raya Jan. 09, 2012 | $1000.00 | 68459 words | Sample 1% |
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Vampin | by Jamie Ott Jan. 08, 2012 | $3.99 | 15203 words | Sample 20% |
| Vampin is the first novel of a long running series about girls who, out of desperation to survive, become vampires. Originally a weekly short with the Black Press Online, Vampin has now become a monthly book for tweens and teens. | |||||
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Blessed By The Gods | by Monica P Jan. 07, 2012 | $1.00 | 989 words | Sample 15% |
| Dionne feels as though the moon has blessed her. However she is yet to meet Adonis. A son of a God who is fit to give her blessing. | |||||
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Taste the Bright Lights | by Laura Canning Jan. 05, 2012 | $0.99 | 67394 words | Sample 20% |
| A hard hitting story following 14 year old Lisa as she runs away from home and learns to survive on the streets. 'This book knocked me sideways...will speak for the disenchanted voice of a generation much like Catcher in the Rye did to the youth in the 50s.' 'Exceptional.' 'A brilliant book which should be on the syllabus of every secondary school.' 'Incendiary reading. Exemplary writing.' | |||||
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Shayna's Shadows | by Paul Philip Brown Jan. 03, 2012 | $0.99 | 41127 words | Sample 30% |
| Shayna's arrival at Pierre Elliott Trudeau Junior High School begins well until her Jewishness attracts the wrong kind of attention. Gilbert, a confirmed bully and bigot, together with his friends, seem to be lurking everywhere, and it doesn't look as though they'll ever leave her alone. Shayna struggles to find the courage to confront her tormentors before their hurtful prejudices overwhelm her. | |||||
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The Candlestick Maker | by David Allen Hare Jan. 02, 2012 | $0.99 | 9688 words | Sample 25% |
| Young Jack Grundy is haunted by a recurring dream, until he discovers what (or who?) waits for him behind the fog. Inspired by a Mother Goose nursery rhyme, Jack follows a dark path that leads him to Covington Woods. There he pursues his dream, only to inhabit a nightmare from which he cannot awake. | |||||
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Highway 90 | by Heather Ross Jan. 01, 2012 | $2.99 | 15357 words | Sample 25% |
| For Brooke and Paige, life in a small border town is getting boring. The same faces cruising the boulevard and getting drunk in the desert just feel so ‘high school’ until a trip to a Mexican nightclub changes the way they view life, love and freedom. | |||||
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Light and Dark - Life Angled On Different Slants | by Monica P Dec. 30, 2011 | $1.00 | 1018 words | Sample 15% |
| Deter wants to complain about work, sister Milli doesn't want to hear it. Their life is slanted on two different angles. | |||||
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Stained Glass Summer | by Mindy Hardwick Dec. 30, 2011 | $3.99 | 43472 words | Sample 15% |
| Twelve-year-old Jasmine wants to be an artist. But, can she escape the shadow of her artistic Father to discover her own path as a glass artist? | |||||
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The Blue Water Moved | by Sara Hanan Dec. 30, 2011 | Free! | 835 words | Read a sample |
| A teenage boy on drugs battling for his busy soldier-father’s love and attention. | |||||
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I Want To Be Djoko | by Emeline Minah Naval Dec. 26, 2011 | $2.99 | 44138 words | Sample 10% |
| Milo Kapovic is a teenager who has to face a terrible ordeal, obesity. Dreadful events will shatter his whole world. Blatant bullying is the rule in Saint Martin's Academy, the posh school in London that Milo attends. Milo should find the strength to be his own person in a hostile environment.He should also find the courage to live his true passion: tennis. | |||||
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Letting Go | by Monica P Dec. 25, 2011 | $1.00 | 1223 words | Sample 15% |
| I wanted to call Adam my new home. He was the lover who I had wanted to crawl to in the morning, and never leave. | |||||
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What's Life | by Lamont Fraser Dec. 22, 2011 | Free! | 37900 words | Read a sample |
| Vanessa is a 17 year old mother of fraternal twins, Janet and James. After the twins father denied them, Vanessa only had her best friend Lisa by her side; until Lisa decided to move out of state. With no one to turn to, Vanessa becomes suicidal and constantly injects illegal drugs into her body.... | |||||
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A Reunion Story | by Christy Quinn Dec. 20, 2011 | Free! | 12685 words | Read a sample |
| A Reunion Story follows Sam Lancey as he returns home for his 10-year high school reunion. He finds a mysterious list of "to-dos" that remind him who he used to be, and point him in the direction of who he is today. | |||||
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Ditching Barbie | by Jill Zeller Dec. 19, 2011 | Free! | 3059 words | Read a sample |
| Your mom gave you just enough money to buy a coat, but what you really want is a Barbie and a half-sister's grudging respect. What would YOU do? | |||||
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The Wailing Infant | by Matthew Adamson Dec. 19, 2011 | Free! | 1586 words | Read a sample |
| Eleanor Wainwright's son is the light of her life. Not knowing who the father is, Eleanor is faced with the prospect of raising a child as a single mother. But will her maniacal, God-fearing parents allow this to happen? The Wailing Infant exposes the fear a single mother has for the life of her son. | |||||
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When We Walked The Streets Together | by Matthew Adamson Dec. 18, 2011 | Free! | 2825 words | Read a sample |
| Liam and Breagha are the best of friends, but a family tragedy leaves Liam's world shaken. Breagha is the only person who can help Liam through his hardship, but will Liam allow her to support him or has he been pushed too far? A short story that captures the innocence of youth and is bursting with emotion. | |||||
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Dying World | by Monica P Dec. 16, 2011 | $1.00 | 1018 words | Sample 15% |
| Robyn looked to the sky. It was good and light. However it was almost midnight. So the sight spooked her a little. | |||||
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Lorah's Promise | by Ann Harris Dec. 12, 2011 | $6.99 | 36191 words | Sample 15% |
| Set in 1868, Lorah's Promise is the story of a young girl's challenges in a newly formed Canada. She faces bears, and Indians, to name a few. | |||||
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On Thin Ice | by PJ Sharon Dec. 11, 2011 | $2.99 | 85823 words | Sample 15% |
| Seventeen-year-old figure skater Penny Trudeau has secrets and she’s not perfect. With a mother who is dying and a father who treats her like she’s invisible, Penny has every reason to lie. To escape the life that is spinning out of control, she falls into the arms of an older boy. But when she lies about her age and he finds out the truth, Penny loses the one good thing in her life. | |||||
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Breathkept | by Saundra Mitchell Dec. 11, 2011 | $3.99 | 51668 words | Sample 20% |
| Parker Nixon has never been away from home. She’s never been in love. And she’s never been wanted for murder… until now. | |||||
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SPIRIT BOY: An Earth Spy | by Tricia Kelly Dec. 11, 2011 | $5.99 | 57185 words | Sample 15% |
| Numerous radio show hosts loved SPIRIT BOY, and highly endorse 'SPIRIT BOY: An earth Spy. In spirit, he spots two boys headed down the same dead-end-road he traveled and knows he must help them understand the `LAW OF ATTRACTION,' so they can change their lives for the better. | |||||
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Off Limits | by Renee Pace Dec. 08, 2011 | $1.99 | 62368 words | Sample 20% |
| Lindsay looks and acts like the perfect fifteen year-old, but she’s hiding a dirty little secret that no amount of fashionista coverings can make better. Telling her mother her step-father is molesting her is not an option. Trying to kill herself again haunts her more than the scars on her wrists, and pretending to be perfect at school might very well drive her over the edge. | |||||
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NINA - Friends and Frenemies | by Allie Peterson Dec. 08, 2011 | $0.99 | 8876 words | Sample 15% |
| Nina Shores is super excited about starting fifth grade, but when things get out of control she’s on an emotional roller-coaster ride with family, friends and frenemies. Throw in a visit to the principal, mean girls, cyber-bullying, and dealing with her 'perfect' older sister, and you have a funny story about real-life situations kids face today. | |||||
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Call to Duty | by Amanda Brenner Dec. 07, 2011 | $0.99 | 3480 words | Sample 20% |
| When Rick's girlfriend, Cassie, calls asking to meet at their favorite hangout near her home, he wonders what could be on her mind. Probably just another of her dramatic fantasies; he's used to them by now. Surely nothing more than that…right? | |||||