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Derelict by Albert Berg

In the dark heart of space, a derelict freighter drifts empty and lifeless. But in the shadows...something waits.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00558WOZG?tag=discounter-20

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Fruitbasket from Hell(a vampire mystery) (Alex Cheradon Mysteries) by Jason Krumbine

Action/Adventure/Mystery/Sci-Fi/Comic Fiction

Steven Raines (you know, the man who made billions making an operating system that out-Microsoft-ed Microsoft?) has hired Alex Cheradon(private investigator) to look for his missing daughter. Good news: It's a million dollar payday. Bad news: she may be a Satanist hell bent on bringing the Devil to Earth.

The dead bodies are piling up. Vampires are crawling out of the woodwork. And there's something named Pookie that's lurking around the corner.

Breathtakingly paced, the jokes and wisecracks fly fast as Alex races against the clock to save the day.

This is Book 1 in the Alex Cheradon Series.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TDKPJI?tag=discounter-20

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Quid Pro Quo by Dan Dillard

Louis is a young boy and Laura, a married woman. They have something in common: terminal illnesses. Circumstances bring them both to Steven, an odd man who lives in a ratty apartment in the inner city. Steven has a gift. He heals them both of their ailments giving them life. This comes at a cost, because as there is no up without down, no back without front, no dark without light... there can also be no healing without payment.

From the collection, "What Tangled Webs" by Dan Dillard. Also available as an e-book or Paperback.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004UGMOPY?tag=discounter-20

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We Are the Monsters by Aaron Polson

While cruising a dark country road late one Saturday night, five high school friends accidentally kill an old drunk. Hiding the body is easy. Lying about what happened is even easier. But lies have a way of breeding Monsters in Springdale, Kansas, and the Monsters have come to play.

"Here’s the truth about growing up in a small town: you tell lies to survive.

I worked at a grocery store during high school, part time on the evenings and weekends. I saw plenty of strange things there: avocados stuffed in a barrel of fresh popcorn left to rot, a coworker who punched holes in the caps of beer bottles with an awl, pies marked “Verda’s own home-baked” which came frozen on pallets with the Sunday dairy truck. I found a body in the trash bin once, but nobody can prove who put it there. No one can prove it was there.

There were too many bodies for a town the size of Springdale. The name of the town is a lie, but the bodies aren’t. All of them. When you find a body lying with the outdated yogurt, wilted lettuce, and cardboard boxes, you make up stories to cope. You can’t process a body in the grocery store trash bin. A trick of the light, you say. The way the shadows fell across certain bits of debris like the coat hanger beast in a little boy’s bedroom. That head of lettuce, there, in the corner, looks like a human hand.

Bodies are bodies.

Dead is dead.

And lies are lies."

We are the Monsters is a 35,000 word novella.

About the author: Aaron’s stories have been reprinted in The Best of Every Day Fiction 2009 and 2010, listed as a recommended read by Tangent Online, received honorable mention in the storySouth Million Writers Award and Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050CM0HE?tag=discounter-20

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Anvil of Tears (Reforged Trilogy) by E.D. Lindquist

Maeve Cavainna is the last princess of Arcadia and first mate on an old cargo ship. The infamous bounty hunter, Logan Coldhand, is close behind, chasing Maeve for the price on her head. Their battle is interrupted by a pregnant girl begging for refuge from those who chase her. Can Maeve and Logan end their bitter feud to save an innocent, or will they bring the galaxy one step closer to death?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002XULHW0?tag=discounter-20

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Beyond Fun: Serious Games and Media by Drew Davidson

This book focuses on strategies for applying games, simulations and interactive experiences in learning contexts. A facet of this project is the interactive and collaborative method in which it was created. Instead of separated individual articles, the authors and editors have orchestrated the articles together, reading and writing as a whole so that the concepts across the articles resonate with each other. It is our intention that this text will serve as the basis of many more discussions across conference panels, online forums and interactive media that in turn will engender more special collaborative issues and text

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003JTHCTQ?tag=discounter-20

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The Scars by William Tennant

If your future is written on your palms, can you change it by scarring your hands
Peter has lost the love of his life, Mags is a young girl broken by abuse, Bernard has a glint in his eye and a slur in his soul and Emma is powered by a hidden past.
In 'The Scars' we find life, loss, beauty, darkness, desire and violence.
In 'The Scars' we find the saddest of loves.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0053R3U48?tag=discounter-20

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Sole Sacrifice (a novella) by K. C. May

Sithral Tyr watched helplessly while three of his children died of a strange illness. When his last remaining son falls ill, he gives up on his clan's shaman and, amid protests from the clan chief and his neighbors, Tyr sets out to find a cure for his son. His journey takes him to a land of danger and debauchery where he's forced to make the ultimate sacrifice in the hopes of saving not just his son but his entire clan.

This novella features one of the characters in The Kinshield Legacy.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040ZN166?tag=discounter-20

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Hidden Highway by Tom Lichtenberg

Sharad LeMaster ran away from his own cult, and tried to hide from his followers by taking a desk job in a motel in the middle of nowhere, but when a certain lazy ghost from his past reappears, Sharad is lured into a haunted house and becomes the proud possession of the witch Eugenia, and gets caught between rival black-market magic-potion dealers in their fight over a girl who just happens to possess the most perfect skull ever for turning into a shrunken head.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZG96NE?tag=discounter-20

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Veiled Eyes (Lake People) by C.L. Bevill

A vivid waking dream of giant cypress trees dripping with Spanish moss haunts Anna St. Thais. The trees sit on a black lake that resembles a dark Louisiana bayou with an evocative aura. The dream includes the presence of a man who seems to know Anna all too well and a group of people with strange telepathic powers, sometimes called veiled eyes. An orphan from Texas, she is on her way east to help out a friend when she encounters two terrifying things. Psychically, she begins to see and hear things through the eyes of an unknown individual, a man who knows more about her than she ever would have imagined. The second thing is that she has been kidnapped by a sociopathic trucker intent on making her his latest victim. When she is rescued by Gabriel Bergeron, a member of the elusive Lake People in Northwestern Louisiana, Anna doesn’t realize that he is her psychic counterpart and she has been inexplicably pulled to the area. She shares their strange colored gold eyes and their distinctive mental powers. They are a reclusive lot and know that Anna is one of them, but has been isolated by unknown circumstances. She is drawn into their incomparable world, something between that of the Creoles and Cajuns, and much in addition to those. There Anna finds a romantic link with Gabriel and the spine-tingling fear of not knowing who to trust. Her return has disturbed the inner workings of the group and threatens to expose secrets long concealed in the murky Louisiana bayous. There are secrets to be divulged about her past and why she was spirited away as an infant. Anna isn’t safe until she discovers the answers she so desperately requires.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0042P5DA6?tag=discounter-20

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Missy Tonight by Tom Lichtenberg

These days it seems like everyone is cashing in on the New Atheism craze, except for lifelong unbeliever Alan Musted. What’s a portable toilet dispatcher to do? Crash the party, that’s what! Join Alan and his friends and enemies in this ground-breaking work of “atheist pulp fiction”, the spellbinding sequel to Orange Car with Stripes

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZNJVO6?tag=discounter-20

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Victoria Gardella: Vampire Slayer (The Gardella Vampire Chronicles) by Colleen Gleason

(Previously published as part of The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance)

A short story introducing readers to the Gardella Vampire Chronicles.

1820: Victoria Gardella tries to enjoy a ball with her new beau, Lord Rockley--but when bloodthirsty vampires come upon the scene, she must leave the fun in order to employ her stake along- side a grim Max Pesaro (vampire slayer) and the mysterious Sebastian Vioget.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003MAK5H8?tag=discounter-20

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World Weary Avengers by Tom Lichtenberg

The good folks at World Weary Avengers Incorporated had a simple idea - changing the world for the better by talking loudly in public. Seemed simple enough, but even with the help of the most sophisticated hand held device ever invented, some jobs are better not left to amateurs. You never know what kind of hell could break loose.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00413PTLC?tag=discounter-20

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Vasily & The Works (Tales from the Middle Empires) by J. Patrick Sutton

A novella set in the Irredente universe.

Young Vasily Alexseyev inherits a great manufactory from a successful, overbearing father but must first wait for his mother to step down as regent. She's reluctant, having found her calling and being filled with worry that the dilettante Vasily isn't ready. Impatient to claim his mantle, and resentful over his perceived mistreatment, Vasily takes matters into his own hands. Having entered a software coding competition on a lark, he decides to use his competition entry to inject something of himself into the Works' mainframe computer. When the Works comes crashing down, feudal Linnet, a world ruled by industrial oligarchy, will be changed forever.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0048EJY0Q?tag=discounter-20

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Just Dial 911 for Assistance by Jason Krumbine

Slice of Life/Family Chris Allen, a 911 Dispatcher and part-time online columnist, is about to have a busy twelve days. For starters, there’s that pesky 911 call he took that’s probably going to send him to court. On the upside, though, Chris gets to meet the cute new receptionist at the Sheriff’s office. A hint of romance may cheer things up, that is, if his ex doesn’t keep hanging around and playing her usual mind games.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001U0PANQ?tag=discounter-20