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	Anger	by Kennie Kayoz Sep. 08, 2011	Free!	418 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Take 333-parts poetry and 333-parts of hate you get Kennie Kayoz: the perfect lethal combination of poetry and hate, whom himself has been labeled as 666 by his high school whom according to them should have spent time in the psych ward for things that he's said and poetry written while at school. Like the meaning of his name Kennie feels as if he's been born from the fire time and time again, and has been through various points in his life that have been utter kayotic. However he emerged from everything that life has seemed to throw at him many eBooks later Kennie is still looking at getting his name out there. Feeling unwanted by everyone around him since the age of 16, Kennie has not had an easy life which carries out into everything he does with an obvious edge. What he writes is real, and is what gives his words a distinction of others. The once #1 target of bullying at high school which started his controversial writing skills which really got him noticed by his teacher and principal when during a co-op class he wrote about being bullied from the moment he walked in the front doors at school in the morning till the moment that he gets off the bus at night the school was then set into "panic mode" as they then linked Kennie as a "Potential Threat" of pulling a "Columbine". They also pushed Kennie towards the schools psychologist to allow him someone to "Talk To", shortly after that Kennie found himself walking out of the doors never to return. After many trials and tribulations in his life after he dropped out he still managed to write on and off as his writing became an eerie prophecy for his own life. In late 2005 Kennie signed Crystal to Coyotes Publishing and just a few months later Kennie's struggles got worse as his father was killed by vehicular homicide. At the start of 2006 Kennie decided to take a huge chance with his poe-hatery as he established the ebook called "End Of The Poe-Hatery Era" in which he gathered up all that could be considered "Poe-Hatery" and released it followed that he went on to realize that "Poe-Hatery" was exactly who he was so he decided to take another huge chance and release "Be Yourself" a eBook with collabs by various independent artists (in various genres) as well as other independent poets and he released it it got a huge variety of notice all through out the internet, but when Kennie realized that he was the only one plugging it and none of the other artists were doing anything about the release he immediately pulled the release off of the internet. Shortly after that Coyotes Publishing as well as Kennie vanished from the likes of the internet.
	Samantha	by Erynn Louviaite Dec. 28, 2011	Free!	59931 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Erynn A Louviaite is an aspiring writer, a romantic, a fantasy nerd, a supernatural fanatic, an avid King reader, an obsessed Pendragon fan, a Harry Potter expert, and a pseudonym... perhaps even as far as an "alter ego" of sorts. "Erynn A Louviaite" is an anagram actually, made from the letters of someone not quite as interesting and creative who wishes to remain anonymous for the time being. Read all of my other (mostly unfinished) work for free at http://www.scribd.com/Erynn654842
	drakon2	by sky pro Jan. 12, 2012	Free!	150337 words	Read a sample
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	Chroniques de Galadria I - L'Autre Monde	by David Gay-Perret Oct. 15, 2011	Free!	63340 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: NB : la liste de tous mes livres se trouve en bas de page. NB: the list of all my books can be found further down. Bonjour à tous ! (en Français plus bas) / Hi everybody! The space here being rather small, I decided to write the text only in French (since the book is in French too and addresses mainly French speaking people). I would like to translate it into English, but lack of time and resources… You are nevertheless most welcome to send me a message at david.gayperret@gmail.com in English! And if you don't speak French but know people who do, you might be interested to join Smashwords affiliate system (http://www.smashwords.com/about/affiliate) and spread the word about my work! We both gain and I make sure you get a good share for your contribution. In any case thanks for stopping by! (and don’t hesitate to visit another website related to my work and in English this time: http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/David_Gay-Perret). Pour les francophones et/ou anglophobes maintenant ! Heureux que vous fassiez une tour sur ma page ! Je vais donc me présenter un peu : je m’appelle David Gay-Perret, né en 1989 à Annecy (France, tout près de Genève avec un très beau lac !) où j’ai aussi vécu les 20 premières années de ma vie. Désormais je vis et j’étudie en Suède (ma patrie de cœur !). J’ai écrit le livre « Chroniques de Galadria », que vous découvrez ici, durant 7 années, de mes 13 ans à 20 ans (en fait la fin coïncide avec mon départ pour la Suède, début d’une « nouvelle vie »…). Bien sûr l’histoire a été modifiée de nombreuses fois durant le parcours (et la forme aussi à mesure que mon niveau de Français évoluait), mais plusieurs points sont restés les mêmes : le rêve, l’aspect conte philosophique, l’idée Maggs/Protecteurs et d’autres points clés de l’histoire que je ne révèlerai pas ici (ce serait dommage de gâcher la surprise !). Durant ces 7 années, les « CG » comme nous les appelons affectueusement (et c’est quand même plus court !) m’ont plus ou moins pris tout mon temps. Je me faisais un devoir de retranscrire dans l’histoire tout ce que je vivais, voyais, découvrais ou expérimentais. D’une certaine manière je vivais dans ce livre plutôt que dans la réalité… A vrai dire cette idée centrale de rêve était inspirée de ma situation : pendant des années je rêvais de vivre sur cet « Autre Monde », et la réponse à ce désir a pris la forme d’un livre… Et il m’a fallu attendre la toute fin du récit pour réaliser qu’en vérité la vie même était un rêve ! Et aussi à quel point l’histoire était riche de symboles, pas toujours évidents à trouver. Un autre point intéressant est la correspondance troublante entre les évènements qui m’arrivaient, et le passage de l’histoire sur lequel je travaillais (l’exemple le plus flagrant étant de mon côté la découverte du Développement Personnel avec le livre « Le Guerrier Intérieur » de Thierry Pasquier et les conséquences sur ma vie, radicalement changée, au moment précis où j’attaquais la fin du récit, alors que Glaide se développe à son tour avec tout ce qu’il a appris sur la route : j’arrivais au bout de cette histoire, ce qui allait marquer la fin d’une époque, et en même temps je travaillais à améliorer ma personne alors que mon départ pour la Suède approchait, marquant également la fin d’une époque. Du coup toute ma propre évolution trouvait naturellement sa place dans l’histoire). Cela dit je n’ai pas été seul dans mon travail : j’ai certes débuté à 13 ans (motivé par la parution de « La Prophétie des Pierres » écrit par la très jeune Flavia Bujor à l’époque), mais ce n’est qu’à 17, après avoir reçu un soutien précieux de ma professeur de Français, que je me suis réellement mis au travail (tandis qu’au début j’avais en tête un petit livre de moins de 100 pages) : rédaction d’une page au moins tous les soirs, retravaille du premier volume, le seul écrit à l’époque, etc… Jusque-là le livre n’avait été qu’une vague idée, en arrière-plan, bien que l’idée de l’Autre Monde et mes rêves associés aient toujours été présents. Mais soudain le récit est devenu central dans ma vie. Et alors que je progressais, l’un de mes amis d’enfance est petit à petit devenu l’une des personnes les plus importantes à mes yeux : Arthur Clément a passé son temps à discuter avec moi de tous les aspects des CG, à découvrir chaque personnage, à me donner des idées lorsque je me trouvais dans l’impasse, à dessiner des ébauches de cartes et, au final, à vivre l’aventure comme je la vivais. Il est probablement le seul qui comprenne réellement toute la portée de cette épopée, et il est toujours à mes côtés, alors que nous travaillons désormais à diffuser cette histoire sur Smashwords. Bien qu’ayant tenté de le remercier à la fin du volume 6 (dans la section adaptée), je crains qu’il n’y ait pour moi aucun moyen de lui rendre justice… Merci encore vieux frère ! Enfin l’un des derniers points à mentionner est probablement la musique (peut-être certains d’entre vous auront-ils remarqué que le site web que je donne est un site de musique libre…) : les grandes lignes des Chroniques de Galadria me sont venues à l’esprit après avoir joué à Final Fantasy X et aussi et surtout en écoutant de la musique (la musique du jeu, et bien d’autres styles). J’ai toujours aimé la musique, et elle s’est avérée une composante très importante dans la rédaction de ce livre. Si importante en vérité que j’ai fini par composer mes propres musiques, liées aux CG. Au début j’ai simplement utilisé cette histoire déjà existante pour me donner de l’inspiration, mais maintenant écouter ces compositions me permet de revivre l’intensité de l’histoire : je revois des images, des émotions… N’hésitez donc pas à écouter tout ça pour prolonger l’aventure, ou simplement la rendre plus intense ! Je peux vous indiquer par e-mail quelle musique illustre quel passage (le titre n’étant pas toujours très clair). Pour conclure je dirais que je ne pense pas être un auteur : j’ai simplement écrit une histoire qui me tenait à cœur, sans avoir pour objectif de devenir un professionnel (idem pour la musique par ailleurs). L’univers de Galadria pourrait sans peine donner naissance à une flopée de suites et diverses extensions, mais il n’en sera rien : je vous laisse à vous, lecteurs, le soin de vous approprier ce monde et d’en créer les passages manquants. Mon rôle s’arrête avec la narration de la vie que j’aurais aimé avoir à l’époque : la vie de Glaide, un homme qui a réalisé son rêve… David david.gayperret@gmail.com http://www.jamendo.com/fr/artist/David_Gay-Perret
	Night Mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail	by Mark Berent March 30, 2011	Free!	2915 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: MARK BERENT Lt Col Mark E. Berent, USAF (Ret), was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Cretin High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. Later he graduated from Arizona State University under the Air Force Institute of Technology program with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. Lt Col Berent began his Air Force career as an enlisted man, then progressed through the aviation cadet program. He attended pilot training at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi and then Laredo Air Force Base, Texas flying the T-6, T-28 and T-33 aircraft and then moved on to F-86s at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. He served on active duty for 23 years until retirement in 1974. He began his operational flying career in the F-86 and F-100 flying at various posts throughout the United States and Europe. He later served three combat tours, completing 452 combat sorties, first in the F-100 at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, the F-4 at Ubon Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand, and then in Cambodia for two years to fly things with propellers on them and through a fluke in communications timing, to personally run the air war for a few weeks. He has also served two tours at the United States Space and Missile System Organization (SAMSO) at Los Angeles, California working first in the Satellites Control Facility and later as a staff developmental engineer for the space shuttle. In his expansive career he has seen service as an Air Attaché to the United States Embassy, Phnom Penh, Cambodia and also as Chief of Test Control Branch at the Air Development and Test Center at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. He also served as an instructor at the Air Force's Squadron Officer School. During his flying career he has logged over 4300 hours of flying time, 1084 of those in combat missions in the F-100, F-4, C-47 and U-10 over North and South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. He has flown 30 different aircraft. His decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with one oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star, Air Medal with twenty four oak leaf clusters, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, Cambodian Divisional Medal, and numerous Vietnam Campaign ribbons. He completed jump school with the Special Forces. Later, he jumped with and was awarded Cambodian paratrooper wings. He also flew with and received Cambodian pilot wings. After leaving the Air Force he lived in Europe to establish and direct international operations for the sale of spares for combat aircraft. He has flown many foreign aircraft such as the Swedish Viggen and Royal Air Force Jaguar and Hawk. He also established Berent and Woods Inc, a firm that managed many aviation related activities. Over the years he had published numerous articles for such publications as Air Force Magazine and the Washington Times and for 18 years wrote a monthly pilot/reporter column for the Asian Defense Journal. Under the name Berent Sandberg he and Peter Sandberg collaborated on three novels. He now has five Vietnam air war flying novels in print, Rolling Thunder, Steel Tiger, Phantom Leader, Eagle Station, and Storm Flight. Berent states it is never too late for any endeavor: he published the first of his five books at age 58, ran his first Marathon at 59, bought a T-6 warbird and flew in airshows at 64, and rode in his first cattle roundup in Montana at 74. …………… "Powerful!" --- Publishers Weekly "The pride of the Air Force. The challenge of Vietnam." "A taut, exciting tale of good men in a bad war. Berent is the real thing." --- Tom Clancy "Rolling Thunder is terrific - a novel of exceptional authenticity that hits like a thunderclap. A decorated Vietnam pilot, Mark Berent knows planes and men and battle, and he whirls them around in a story of uncommon strength. I can't wait for his next book." --- W.E.B. Griffin, best-selling author of Brotherhood of War and The Corps "Mark Berent writes with great authority and utter realism, immersing the reader in his characters' every sensation and emotion." --- Dale Brown, best-selling author of Flight of the Old Dog and Silver Tower "The fighter pilot's war - you love it and hate it at the same time, and Mark Berent writes it that way." --- Stephen Coonts, best-selling author of Flight of the Intruder "Berent tells it like it was!" --- Chuck Yeager "The best Vietnam air novel I have read. Berent captures the essence of flying men at war, their agony, emotions, courage, and triumph." --- Brigadier General Robin Olds
	Reunión (y otros cuentos que caminan hacia ella)	by Isaac Belmar May 28, 2010	Free!	18883 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Isaac Belmar ha publicado en la Antología 13 para el 21 de nuevos escritores, Poeficcionario donde tuvo el honor de honrar al gran Poe a su manera con el legandario “El cuervo”, siguió su ruta con balas y sangre por la Antología del Relato Negro I, su relato ganador del premio Sexto Continente apareció publicado en la obra del mismo nombre y otros muchos escritos salpican páginas de papel y digitales. Más en la página web http://www.hojaenblanco.com
	The Pool of the Black One, Reswum	by Roberta E. Howard June 28, 2010	Free!	11720 words	Read a sample
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	Quala - The Plush Planetary Takeover	by Mark Richmond Aug. 02, 2010	Free!	9975 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: After studying fine art at SDSU I have worked for Virgin Interactive designing video games, taught multimedia at Platt College, and worked at LPL Financial Services as a Marketing Director. In 2007 I left the corporate world to become a full time artist. I have a studio in downtown San Diego where I'm currently working on a comic graphic novel and will be presenting it at this year's Comic-Con 2010. Currently you can see my art at Coffee & Art 6th & F downtown, Harney Sushi Old Town & Oceanside, The San Diego Airport Terminal 1, JWOK downtown 8th n Market
	The Three Musketeers For All	by Alexandra Dumas Aug. 16, 2010	Free!	232361 words	Read a sample
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	"Ghost On the High Seas"	by Lila Sparks Oct. 25, 2010	Free!	1866 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: 57 year old female. I love to read. I dabble in writing. I love to cook, and bake. I do beadwork and other artistic ventures. Mother of 4 grandmother of 7
	RejtÅ‘ JenÅ‘ Egy bolond száz bajt csinál	by Kindlebook Hungary Jan. 16, 2011	Free!	27127 words	Read a sample
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	RejtÅ‘ JenÅ‘: Piszkos Fred közbelép	by Kindlebook Hungary Jan. 16, 2011	Free!	52523 words	Read a sample
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	Struggles of a Country boy	by Herb Blanchard Feb. 19, 2011	Free!	73189 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Herb Blanchard is retired and living in the Puget Sound area of Washington State. He is a Vietnam Era Seabee veteran who spent several years stationed on Okinawa and made many trips to the island during his two tours in Vietnam. He followed his six year Seabee tour with an Air Force hitch of four years as a KC135 tanker crew chief flying to and from Southeast Asia and flying combat missions over Vietnam and off the coast of China. He took every opportunity to return to Okinawa be a two day lay-over or a 120 day TDY. Herb made and had many friends American and Okinawan on the island. He knew the island and its people well and enjoyed every day he spent there.
	Twelve Days of Vengeance	by David J. Avila March 16, 2011	Free!	3878 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I am a podcaster and I've been doing that for over 5 years with my wife of 16 years. We've been married 16 years not that she's 16. But I did meet her when she was 19 so close enough -right? For 2011 I hope to bring you as many free short stories and one novel for free all year long.
	The Eyes that See - A Prelude to the Balancer Chronicles	by Chris Adonn March 28, 2011	Free!	12919 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I want to write. I want to lose myself in compelling narratives and adventures as they unfold in my mind and spill onto pages which will invariably result in a book by the time I am done. Writing started for me as a way to pass the time whenever I ran out of reading material or wanted to get rid of excess creative energy (I was an artist specializing in the painting medium (still am). Before I knew it, I was in love with the new freedom I could find only by putting pen to paper (or rather, fingers to a key-board). I wanted to delineate the characters I had dreamed into existence on a two dimensional surface with 3D fluidity. I have no idea if I have succeeded in this initial feat, but now I mainly long to see where they will take me to next. Of course I want much more than that as writing the story is only the first step for me. I want to present my books to the world in a fashion that captures the market for which they were intended. I want intrepid readers to meet the characters I have fallen in love with and perhaps, fall in love with them too. Dear reader, please let me know your impressions and thoughts by entering a rating and your opinion after reading my work. Thanking you in advance, Chris Adonn P.S. Follow me on facebook and twitter so that you can be the first to know when I'm giving away free coupons and other promotions on my books.
	Runner (The Runners)	by Logan Rutherford June 04, 2011	Free!	3140 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Logan Rutherford is a 16-year-old who developed a passion for reading and writing at a young age. He lives in Texas with his parents, five sisters, and one brother…and a few dogs. Learn more at his blog: existentialbacon.wordpress.com
	Cavern Between Worlds	by M. K. Theodoratus June 09, 2011	Free!	5692 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Snarly elves are my specialty. As many of my scattered reviews have mentioned, my elves -- actually a mixed elf/human population -- are different than most writers. Yeah, I do the fantasy writer thing, mostly in the world of the Far Isle Half-Elven. You can learn more about the history and heros of the Marches at my website: http://www.half-elven.com. An "early writer", a sixth grade writing assignment started my "writing career". The teacher asked for a short story for an English assignment. She got a Nancy Drew pastiche -- "The Clue of the Clay Cats" -- and gave me a "C" because, at 25 handwritten pages, I hadn't finished the story. [Most of the other kids only wrote two to four pages. *snarl*, *snarl*] The next summer, I finished a novel-length MG story. After five different "writing careers", I now write fantasy. The Half-Elven take up much of my time, but I also explore the world of Faerie and ghosts in some of the middle grade fiction [to be published by a publisher at a later date]. I mutter about my writing journey on my blog: Lessons from Reading. Not only do writers have to learn their craft, they must learn about all the new and wonderful and not-so-wonderful details of the world of publishing. This takes the form of book reviews, useful links about promotion, and answers to comments. Stop by my writer's blog (where I talk about being a writer in general, http://kaytheod.blogspot.com) and tell me what you think. You'll learn about my latest projects and headaches ... and sometimes, what's annoying me.
	Storm World: Speaker Of The Gods	by Jonathan DeCoteau July 21, 2011	Free!	111028 words	Read a sample
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	Gun Manifesto	by David Majlak July 30, 2011	You set the price!	2243 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: I enjoy putting custom computers together, video games, my mom, my wife, my dog, and learning useful information. I'm very good with accomplishing tasks despite not having the proper tools for the job. I do not like bees, spiders touching me, poison ivy, hearing Congress making illogical decisions, when my wife yells at me, when my mom yells at me, when my dog pees inside on the carpet, or when my computer crashes on me. I have a great sense of humor, a fine amount of wit, and use sarcasm very well. I also despise reality TV shows because my wife dominates the TV with them. I am friendly, understanding, and quite hospitable. I've never been in a fistfight, an accident, or on a plane. I'm also an expecting father. I'm also an expecting father a hair away from poverty. If I wasn't, I would most likely have a physical copy of my own books :) I wish I had the money to perform beneficial works to society for nothing in return, I wish I could paint and read and study and meditate all day, and I wish I could share the more important aspects of life with everyone.
	Renewal (Part Two of the Arbiter Project Trilogy)	by Marek Storm Aug. 12, 2011	Free!	27606 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Marek Storm was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1971. He grew up as the youngest of three children by a full six years and subsequently had to develop a very active imagination. His undergraduate studies involved a healthy mix of Business, Information Systems, Communications, Psychology, and Theater. Marek graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Indiana University in 2000. He has often contemplated pursuing a graduate degree, but would much rather spend his time doing what he truly loves, which is writing. He currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife, two daughters, and three cats. A male cat was added to the family a little while ago in order to help balance the testosterone/estrogen levels in the house.
	A Frequent Traveller's Guide to Jovan: Book 1	by Elle Black Aug. 28, 2011	Free!	80986 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Elle Black is Australian, born and bred. She has spent time living in the USA and Canada, and her parents live in the UK. She has a degree majoring in Avoiding the Real World As Long as Possible. Nowadays, she works the 9-to-5 in an office with a nice view of other offices. Elle has written short stories, long stories, fanfic, roleplay characters, three years’ worth of NaNoWriMo, and an Honours thesis. Elle’s friends characterise her as irritable and sarcastic and prone to passive-aggression, with an annoying habit of reminding people of their manners. Elle really, really likes travelling, knowing everything, The Weakerthans, musicals, Kara Thrace, Georgette Heyer novels, Rufus Wainwright, King Charles II of England, and Vancouver.
	The Secret Sacrament	by John Shiloh Dec. 19, 2011	Free!	2032 words	Read a sample
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	Sigmund Mauer y el maldito monstruo infernal	by C.G. Martin Jan. 04, 2012	Free!	11003 words	Read a sample
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	Dinosaur Mountain	by Matt Payne Dec. 22, 2011	Free!	11692 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: This is the Smashwords Home for the surrealist adventure-writer Matt Payne. Get lost in his mesmerizing word-play while you fall in love with his characters, their attitudes and their struggles. Fun and adventure are the sugar for mind-bending hypnosis. Deep into holes and up onto mountains for introverted and extroverted adventures! And maybe I love you. LoL.
	The Hitler File EXCERPTS	by Sam Vaknin Jan. 03, 2010	Free!	57698 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East as well as many other books and ebooks about topics in psychology, relationships, philosophy, economics, and international affairs. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, Global Politician, PopMatters, eBookWeb , and Bellaonline, and as a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent. He was the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.
	The Lad	by Peter Knowles March 24, 2010	You set the price!	5178 words
	Author bio: Hi Peter Knowles born 1949 in Barnsley,Yorkshire England and is still living there. I joined the British Army way back in 1966 at the age of just seventeen, served eight years, first with The York & Lancaster Regiment in Cyprus then with The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment in Hong Kong. never really achieved anything worth while, so I decided to write a book about it Once Upon a Time in the Army, read it, it will make you laugh if nothing else. Tried many jobs since then, you name it I have probably done it. Then twenty plus years ago I picked up a joblot of cheap books and became a Bookseller, now recently retired I finally became an Author, not sure whether that was a good idea or just a natural progression from one to the other. Read my books and let me know.
	After Life: Love	by Patrick Lee May 31, 2010	Free!	97380 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: After losing both parents, I floated around for a few years until I was old enough to be on my own. I survived another 5 years traveling between cities, finding all the spots to get free food and sleep in a free bed, until I ended up in Las Vegas. In a city that never shuts down, there is no shortage of places to spend days and nights, and tourists are easy targets for making some good money. Night provided the perfect opportunity to improve my lifestyle, and when the sun roasted the desert, I hid out and banged away on a story that had haunted me for years. What started as a series of stories with nothing in common fell together with one common element...death. Once that piece of the puzzle hit me, the rest of it poured out onto the pages. A few rewrites later, and the After Life story begins. I hope you enjoy it, and let me know what you think...
	The Devil in Iron, Respawned	by Roberta E. Howard June 28, 2010	Free!	12823 words	Read a sample
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	Those Years Without	by James Welsh Dec. 10, 2010	Free!	72124 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: James Welsh is from the highway rest-stop that is Delaware. Now based out of New York City, he continues to pursue his lifelong passion for writing. He has written everything from stories to poetry to scripts. He loves anything written between 1910 and 1960. He also loves key lime pie. He can be reached by email if you have any questions or comments about his work: jaygwelsh@gmail.com Individual Poems Published "Calypso for Excuses." The Stray Branch (Spring/Summer 2013) "Benediction for the Outside." New Plains Review (Fall 2011) "Tricycle Worlds." Kaleidoscope (July 2011) "Where Fireflies End, and Lightning Begins." Mused (2011) "Penelope's Lament." The Centrifugal Eye (April 2011) "Judgment of Paris." Three Line Poetry (Issue 2, 2011) “Colors (An Old Man to His Wife).” flashquake (Summer 2010) “I Am My Muse’s Right Hand.” Grasslimb 8(2) “I Built My Sandbox in The Atlantic.” Caesura 29(2008- 2009) “how a speed bump destroyed the world.” Caesura 29(2008- 2009) “Ironing Out Hypocrisy.” Westward Quarterly 36(Spring 2009) “Light on Broken Windows.” Westward Quarterly 36(Spring 2009) “Learning to Walk.” Soul Fountain 35(Fall 2008) “A Nervous Kind of Happy.” Westward Quarterly (Summer 2008)
	Memoirs of a Vending Machine	by James Pollard Jan. 03, 2011	Free!	17923 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I spent a few of my earlier years as a muso playing the trumpet in a funk and jazz band.I've done the international teaching thing in Japan and lived there for over six years. I've been a salesman, a sound engineer, a cement block maker, a landscape gardener, a pit musician, a postgraduate international recruitment officer, a high school teacher,a trumpet tutor and a whole lot of other things. Now I like writing.
	RejtÅ‘ JenÅ‘: Az elátkozott part	by Kindlebook Hungary Jan. 16, 2011	Free!	41485 words	Read a sample
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	RejtÅ‘ JenÅ‘: Piszkos Fred, a kapitány	by Kindlebook Hungary Jan. 16, 2011	Free!	49542 words	Read a sample
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	Hitchhiker 3 - Wendy	by Mark Haugen April 29, 2011	Free!	3035 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: A fifth-generation South Dakotan, Haugen is a recovering journalist living in the Black Hills with his wife, three teenagers, two dogs and Johnny Depp, the pet rabbit. Haugen is a former newspaper reporter, editor, sportswriter, publisher and award-winning columnist. He has lived throughout South Dakota - in Montrose, Canton, Sioux Falls and Valley Springs. He's worked at the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Tri-State Neighbor and owned the Tea & Harisburg Champion newspaper in Tea. In addition to several free-lance writing gigs, he also had brief forays across state lines and worked at newspapers in Windom and Luverne, Minn., and Rock Valley, Iowa. Haugen is also an avid runner and gardener.
	Bad Spirits Books 1-5 (The Series)	by DV Berkom June 01, 2011	Free!	24174 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: DV Berkom grew up in the Midwest, received her BA in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, and promptly moved to Mexico to live on a sailboat. Several years and at least a dozen moves later, she now resides outside of Seattle, Washington with her sweetheart Mark, an ex-chef-turned-contractor, and writes whenever she gets a chance. You're welcome to email her at dvb (at) dvberkom (dot) com or chat with her on Facebook or Twitter- she loves to hear from readers as well as other writers.
	Vultures in the Playground	by A. Sparrow July 07, 2011	Free!	78061 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I'm an amateur writer with zero interest in traditional publishing. Nothing against authors who still aim to squeeze a living from this moribund profession. I don't have the time or patience to mess around with that jazz. I write because I'm a fussy reader who struggled to find books worth reading at my local book shops. My shelves became littered with a grim collection of hardcovers and paperbacks I was unable to finish. It reached the point where if I wanted to be entertained by writing, I had to do it myself. My stories may be unusual, but I wouldn't call them literary or experimental. They depict ordinary people in extraordinary situations, free of the usual genre or commercial constraints. I might suggest that if you're looking for more of the same of whatever you've been reading, you'll have better luck looking elsewhere. I'm not particularly proud of any of my books, but some people seem to like them. I'm aiming higher. arrow.asp@gmail.com
	Masque of Moonlight and Shadows	by Darragh Metzger July 15, 2011	Free!	2580 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I make my living in the world's two lowest-paying professions: acting and writing. While my resume includes stage and screen credits, I've spent the last several years wearing armor, riding horses, and swinging swords with The Seattle Knights. My publishing credits include plays, non-fiction articles, and short stories, one of which made The StorySouth Millions Writers Award Notable Stories of 2005. I've written five--no, six--novels to date, sold three of them in 2002, and am now re-releasing them under my own imprint, TFA Press. I am currently working on a non-fiction project. I also sing and write songs for A Little Knight Music and The Badb. If I had free time (which I don't), I'd spend it with horses. I'm married to artist/fight director Dameon Willich.
	Venslund - 4	by Logan Branjord July 24, 2011	Free!	3314 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Age:27 Location: New Richmond, WI Favorite Authors: Terry Goodkind, George R.R. Martin, Patrick Rothfuss, Chris Paolini, Ken Follett & many more. Hobbies: Reading, Programming, Guitar, Basketball, Weight-Lifting, Anything Outdoors
	A Simple Misunderstanding	by Richard Quinn Aug. 14, 2011	Free!	2451 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: In everyone’s life, there are a certain number of events or decisions, call them forks in the road, that influence just about everything that happens to us from that point forward. We pick one school or career over another, we meet the person who becomes our partner, we cross the street without looking and get hit by a truck. Fate? Serendipity? Random chance? Whatever you want to call it, these pivotal moments aren’t always obvious at the time, but they’re clear as a bell in retrospect, and when you string them all together, they define who we are more surely than our DNA. A case in point for me personally is something that happened in January of 1971, when I was a 20 year old student at Antioch College in Ohio. Born and raised in the Arizona desert, I was fed up with snowy mid-western winters, so I took a break from school, pointed myself south, stuck out my thumb at the side of a road, and dropped off the edge of the world. When I re-emerged, three months later, I’d covered a distance of nearly 7,000 miles, almost all of it by land. I’d crossed the Andes mountain range six times, I’d camped overnight in the ruins at Machu Picchu, I’d traveled the length of the Atacama desert with a circus, and I’d finally fetched up on the shores of a turquoise lake in southern Chile, near the ultimate end of the road in Tierra del Fuego. I hadn’t planned that trip, and had only the vaguest notion of what I was getting into when I started. I just sort of spontaneously DID it, and the overall experience was literally life changing. When I got back to school, I switched my major from psychology to anthropology, and three months after that, I returned to South America. I completed my studies independently, doing field work at an "off-catalog" archaeological site on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, as well as ethnographic research high up in the snow-capped mountains immediately above those coastal ruins, among the descendants of the people who had built them, as much as a thousand years before. All told, I spent the best part of five years in the northern Andes. Some of my field work was formally sanctioned by a Colombian University, and by the Colombian National Museum. The rest of it, quite frankly, was not, but either way, it was the real deal--Indiana Jones without the stunt doubles and the special effects. I slogged through unmapped jungles and climbed lofty peaks in search of lost ruins--and I actually found a few. I dug for buried treasure, and I found a bit of that as well. I spent time with remote tribes who were living in a world so distant from ours that it may as well have been another planet, and I viewed wild, exotic landscapes that are the stuff of mist-shrouded dreams. All of that was exciting, often exhilarating, but it most certainly wasn't an easy way to make a living, because Colombia, back in the 1970’s, was not an easy place to be. What started out as great good fun got pretty serious when a landslide and flood wiped out my house. Then there were the potentially deadly tropical fevers, the anti-government riots with stone-throwing mobs faced off against troops armed with machine guns, not to mention the drug cartels, the corrupt militias, and the occasional stray bullet whizzing past my ear. I wasn't looking for that kind of trouble, but when it's everywhere around you, it's impossible to avoid. There were times when the trouble got quite personal: while living and working in Colombia, I was the victim of robbery, assault, extortion, false arrest and imprisonment, and the target of an attempted kidnapping. I survived earthquakes, killer volcanoes, a serious machete wound, and at least one shrieking, screaming, blood-on-the-highway bus wreck. If what I've just described sounds more like an ordeal than an adventure, I’d have to say that every grand adventure extracts a price, and in my case, the positives I encountered were well worth any hardship I might have endured. I came to know those mountains and their people in a way touched me to my core, and I experienced beauty of an intensity that’s both rare and noble. More than four decades have passed since that day when I set out hitch-hiking south, and I’ve had many other life-changing moments in the interim, many more shiny pearls in the strand of my personal destiny. Looking back now, as I head toward retirement, I can’t help focusing on THAT one. Because that one? Man, oh man, that one was really a doozy. Chivor, my first major work of fiction, draws heavily on my experience during that period of time. Guajira, the second volume in the Chivor trilogy, is well underway, and should be complete sometime next year.
	Hell's Gates (Sin Fantasy Thriller Series #1)	by Kenneth Guthrie Sep. 17, 2011	Free!	4511 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Kenneth Guthrie is the author of over 300 short stories, novellas, novels, magazines, collections and more. His most popular series to date are his Mage and Tank series; however, he writes in almost every genre, so there is always something for everyone. He publishes through Lunatic Ink Publishing with other respected multi-genre authors.
	Techno-Fear [Episode Two: Attack]	by German Alcala Oct. 24, 2011	Free!	5253 words	Sample 20%
	Author bio: 15 year old Boy Queen Poet. Crowned on May 17, 2010 (when I published my first eBook) Website: http://GermanAlcala.Tk "If... Liberace ate Lil Kim (circa 1996-2008) and then made a baby with Shakira after she had drunk Edgar Allan Poe's ashes you would pretty much get my clone... or the true story of my creation!!!" Twitter: @GermanAlcala And On The Eighth Day (The Free Digital Album)is now out at my website! And On The Eighth Day & the Special Edition are out everywhere! -German Alcala
	Sociopath?	by Vicki Williams Jan. 26, 2012	Free!	105146 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: I am trying to break into fiction after writing non-fiction for many years, primarily as a columnist. I wrote a syndicated column (political and social commentary) for King Features Syndicate for 10 years. My work has appeared in Newsweek, McCalls, Sports Illustrated, USA Today and many others. A Newsweek essay won an Indiana Presswomen's award for Social Commentary, then won at the national level. Three of my columns have appeared in textbooks. I currently write a weekly column for the Logansport (IN) Pharos-Tribune. I also write my own blog as well as blogging frequently for NASCAR.com.
	Eat A Banker	by Peter Bailey Dec. 22, 2011	Free!	20034 words	Read a sample
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	Island of the Hunted - The Beginning	by P B Thompson Jan. 29, 2012	Free!	15395 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Born in London, England, I started my working career as a mechanic until I was made redundant. I then trained to work in IT where I have been since 1995. I started writing as a way to make extra money, not knowing how difficult it was. In that time I found I really loved writing. After many, many submissions to agents I found no success. Self publishing has opened up a whole new world for me. I have started a business and have a 10 year plan. I will write at least 3 books per year and revise my situation in 5 years. I hope to be able to write full time within my 10 year plan.
	Night of the Assassin	by Russell Blake Dec. 12, 2011	Free!	57089 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: Russell Blake is the acclaimed author of Fatal Exchange, The Geronimo Breach, the Zero Sum trilogy, King of Swords, Night of the Assassin, The Delphi Chronicle trilogy, The Voynich Cypher (fiction), An Angel With Fur (pet bio) and How To Sell A Gazillion eBooks In No Time (even if drunk, high or incarcerated) - a parody of everything writing and self-publishing. Blake lives on the Pacific coast of Mexico with his 3 dogs and a bad attitude. His blog, http://RussellBlake.com contains samples of his commentary and humor.
	The Money was His	by Wendy Brumback Jan. 17, 2009	You set the price!	547 words	Sample 50%
	Author bio: Born and rasied in Colorado, I love a wide variety of things. I write in several different genres and am working to complete a novel and making plans to start another. I received my BA in Crative Writing in May 2011. In my spare time I enjoy reading, studying my religon, crocheting, quilting, traveling (when I have the money)and entering clothing designs for their contests at Chicstar.com.
	Eagles in the Sand	by E. Patrick Dorris Jan. 15, 2010	Free!	20144 words	Read a sample
	Author bio: In my forty something years I have generated a very broad set of experiences and interests, but through it all, I have always read. It seems that at times it is harder to find books that enthrall me, although admittedly I am behind on my reading, so I decided to start writing the kind of stories I'd want to read. I have always had stories in my head, they intrude at the strangest times. At some point, I discovered that when I took the time to write them down, more stories kept pouring out. There are so many ideas I have, it seems like there won't be enough time to get to them all. I'm starting with one story, in one particular style. But other stories, in different styles are coming. Stay tuned. My goal in writing is above all to entertain. Thank you in advance for giving me that opportunity.
	The Bull Dog Breed Retrained	by Roberta E. Howard Aug. 03, 2010	Free!	7009 words	Read a sample
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	Legend of the Stone: City of Hamlets	by Wade C. Long Sep. 11, 2010	Free!	28532 words	Sample 25%
	Author bio: Wade C. Long is a novelist, a poet, and a songwriter currently residing in Los Angeles, California, USA. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, his first published work was an essay in a school magazine at age 7. A supporter of several social justice causes, Wade is most passionate about fighting illiteracy. His future projects include several screenplays and teleplays, and additionally, the follow up to LEGEND OF THE STONE: City of Hamlets, LEGEND OF THE STONE: The Unity Chain.
	RejtÅ‘ JenÅ‘ Az ellopott futár	by Kindlebook Hungary Jan. 16, 2011	Free!	44270 words	Read a sample
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	RejtÅ‘ JenÅ‘: Pokol a hegyek között	by Kindlebook Hungary Jan. 16, 2011	Free!	40088 words	Read a sample
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