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Victory
By
Marianne Crone
A micro-short story, in which a husband really should have listened to his wife.... Time: 0:42 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart   (3)
The Year the Tree Fell on the House
By
Karen Bernardo
When one year holds a lifetime of tragedy, the story can be too big to tell.... Time: 1:37 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Deep Waters
By
Jerry Vilhotti
How deep is the ocean of a boy's heart. Some profanity.... Time: 1:43 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Home and Away Stories
By
Lydia Ondrusek
Four tiny tales of life at home and away, far far away.... Time: 2:05 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Common as a Bean
By
Marge Simon
A pointy-headed boy discovers his gift in a little spark of light, hovering above a grave.... Time: 2:54 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart
A Tale of Two Kitties
By
Sue Ellis
Tracy hides a message in the scarf she knits for her boyfriend, never realizing that it's not the only message being sent.... Time: 3:00 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart
Over the Rainbow
By
Victor J. Banis
Emerald palaces and yellow roads and red shoes...and then you grow up.... Time: 3:09 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Hemingway be Damned!
By
Wayne Scheer
He always admired the rugged Hemingway, but on his own weekend in the wild, he finds his experience with urban wildlife is no match for what nature can deliver. A comic tale.... Time: 3:15 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Sometimes He Became a Coaster
By
J.A. Tyler
Her husband lies comatose, and she knows he'd want her to "pull the plug," and she will, really, perhaps soon.... Time: 3:31 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (2)
True Confections
By
Sunny Frazier
A wife, a mistress, and a box of Godiva chocolates; poison can kill a romance or make it stronger.... Time: 3:45 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (2)
A Brief Excerpt in the History of Salt
By
Venita Blackburn
A magical tale of love, where beauty can even be found in failure.... Time: 4:16 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (6)
Not Ready
By
Wayne Scheer
Can the romance of a lifetime ever really end?... Time: 4:29 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Moonlight Complements My Shadow
By
Marge Simon
Sometimes someone comes along who makes you see you're not such a bad guy after all.... Time: 4:44 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart |
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
By
Lydia Ondrusek
There are many kinds of magic loose in the world.... Time: 1:01 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (1)
The Last Barbecue
By
Barbara Quinn
What can a widow do when her husband's spirit turns up in her barbecue? Second Place, The Melic Review Micro Fiction Contest.... Time: 1:40 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Pretty Kitty
By
Barbara Quinn
Sometimes even a Kitty can meet her match.... Time: 2:00 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Healers: What Is
By
Mort Castle
To what lengths would you go to save your child when medicine fails?... Time: 2:40 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Hugo's Turn
By
Allan E. Ansorge
Heroes are oft times found in the most unusual places. Hugo Ettenthaller for one day, finds his place in the sun.... Time: 2:57 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Puppy
By
Michael Neal Morris
Deep in the night, a little boy needs more than his favorite stuffed animal and a drink of water.... Time: 3:03 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart
Deep, Dark Blue
By
Jess Harris
In a smoky jazz club in the dark of the night, artists lay down music and murder.... Time: 3:12 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (7)
Women can be Such Pigs!
By
Wayne Scheer
Turnabout is fair play in this humorous look at sexism.... Time: 3:15 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (4)
A Blind Date, Circa 1960
By
Wayne Scheer
It's 1960, and Marcus Epstein is having a little trouble looking sufficiently "Italian" for his blind date.... Time: 3:45 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (6)
Dead Man's Float
By
Sally Bellerose
Love, jealousy, and a shared sense of family humor.... Time: 3:56 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart
Regrets
By
Mark Best
At the funeral for his murdered wife, a man shares his regrets with friends, only to discover he has even more to regret than he thought.... Time: 4:17 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (1)
The Little Match Girl
By
Hans Christian Anderson
It's New Year's Eve and the snowy streets are deserted, save for a little girl selling matches. A classic children's tale loved the world over.... Time: 4:36 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (2)
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5-10 Minute Stories
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House Sitter
By
J,K. Cummins
There's no place like home, someone else's home that is. General audience.... Time: 5:03 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
A Lovely Leave
By
Victor J. Banis
What would it be worth, to hold a lost love once again in your arms?... Time: 5:19 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (5)
Highway Children
By
Rebecca Oliver
Hurling a rock won't fix a kid's messy life, but sometimes you just do what you do.... Time: 5:34 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
In a Small Town
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Victor J. Banis
It might have gone unnoticed in a big city, a lonely woman's private pain, but not in a small town.... Time: 6:16 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Shelve Under L for Love
By
Carol Ayer
Can Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte lead Libby to love?... Time: 6:31 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Even Steven
By
Gail Farrelly
A story from the one and only person at a murder trial who knows the killer's identity. Finalist for 2007 Derringer Award. Mature theme, some sexual references.... Time: 6:37 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
A Dog's Wish
By
Louise Guardino
It's Christmas Eve and Fido is waiting for the man in red, and wishing for a very particular gift. Humorous.... Time: 6:41 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Let it Come
By
John Young
In the heat of a southern summer, a boy and his sister learn that, like it or not, life comes as it will.... Time: 6:46 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Without a Plan
By
Bruce Holland Rogers
Even without planning, a day's journey might lead you along interesting paths.... Time: 6:53 / $0.49 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Gamblers' Special
By
Michael A. Kechula
A busload of seniors on their way home from Reno encounter a flying saucer containing three of the goofiest aliens in the universe.... Time: 7:00 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Crazy
By
Laura Hartman
With a mother who is always just this side of crazy, a girl needs to stay on her toes.... Time: 7:20 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Solar-Powered Dancing Hamburgers
By
Barbara Quinn
A story of love and loss and enduring, set among the tchotchkes of the boardwalk.... Time: 7:45 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (5)
My World, You're Welcome To It
By
Kris Neri
While her raging hormones have thrown Joan and Aaron's marriage onto the rocks, she's still shocked to think he would try to kill her. And neither could have guessed the oddball way things would turn out.... Time: 8:03 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (5)
Justice
By
Sarah Wisseman
Scientists living in the Bioshpere begin to grow lean and hungry when a key crop fails. All but one of them that is.... Time: 8:20 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
The Price of Peace
By
T.F. Davenport
On a distant planet the population eagerly pursues peace, but can they survive utopia?... Time: 8:30 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
I Believe
By
Mindy Hardwick
Twelve-year-old Samantha has always believed in unicorns, dragons and fairies, but when her new Junior High history teacher says she must put away her childish ideas, Samantha is determined to stand up for her belief in the unseen.... Time: 8:42 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
A Little Accident
By
Michael Neal Morris
Sherry's learning the hidden cost of using a cell phone while driving, and perhaps the price of growing up.... Time: 9:04 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Christmas at the Post Office
By
Wayne Scheer
Waiting in line at the post office during the Christmas rush is enough to shred anyone's holiday spirit, isn't it?... Time: 9:21 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (2)
There's a Story Behind That
By
Jean Adair
A middle-aged woman in the Midwest of the 1940s finds a new career and entertains a nation.... Time: 9:36 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
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Party Time
By
Mort Castle
He lives mostly alone, and sometimes in the dark, so he's happy when Mama says it's Party Time.... Time: 5:04 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Pop is Real Smart
By
Mort Castle
We can learn some interesting lessons from our parents.... Time: 5:28 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Healers: Miss Hazeltine's Miracle
By
Mort Castle
A woman's prayer for relief from unbearable pain could lead to almost anything.... Time: 6:13 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Father Christmas
By
Louise Guardino
Sometimes spreading holiday cheer requres strong-arm tactics.... Time: 6:29 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart
A Temporary Measure
By
Peggy Duffy
An Austrian father in the 1940s hides the truth in order to give his son one last birthday gift. Honorable Mention, Flashquake contest; Second Place, So to Speak contest.... Time: 6:36 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Sea Witch
By
Jim Selleck
A battered sea captain pursues evil across the ocean, while a shadow plays in his wake.... Time: 6:38 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
There is Always Next Thursday
By
Jennifer Brown
It is hard to say what made Mary Fran snap. Perhaps it was just Thursday.... Time: 6:41 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (6)
Occupational Hazards of the Late-Night Girl
By
Camille Alexa
She was the late-night girl at the bookstore, that time of day when the crowds thinned and her MLGs came out. Her sad, sweet Mister Lonely Guys.... Time: 6:51 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
One-Trick Dog
By
Bruce Boston
Mr. Wayne's dog may have been Army Surplus, but it still worked and it did have one trick.... Time: 6:57 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Sam: A Just So Story
By
Rebecca Gaffron
Even in the midst of, or perhaps because of, the trials and hub-bub of life, some things are "just so," like this tale of Sam, a furniture salesman, and his beloved son.... Time: 7:18 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
God Rest Ye Merry Dashing Night
By
Bruce Holland Rogers
Gabe rediscovers Christmas joy, thanks to his job as a part-time Santa.... Time: 7:32 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (3)
The Great Little Train Robbery
By
Michael Bracken
For weeks the men had planned for this day, carefully timing the train as it left the station to the spot where they'd attack. They were sure nothing would go wrong--if the girl didn't get in the way. A light-hearted twist on old-time western stories.... Time: 8:02 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Biscuit Connection
By
Beth Groundwater
Samuel's been dragged from one of his wife's volunteer activities to another. Now it's Christmas, he's stuck dishing up mashed potatoes at the food kitchen, and he's hungrier then he realized. Winner of the Mom Writers' Literary Magazine Short Fiction Contest in 2006.... Time: 8:20 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (3)
One Sweet Scam
By
Warren Bull
For guys and dolls who like Damon Runyon.... Time: 8:29 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Oh, Right, The Sun Also Rises
By
Idan Cohen
In this wry tale, a new thing is born and the world will never be the same.... Time: 8:39 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Healers
By
Mort Castle
Includes both "Healers: What Is" and "Healers: Miss Hazeltine's Miracle."... Time: 8:53 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Pyro
By
Tracie McBride
It's 2 a.m. and there's a cop at her door. Will Julie's heart be warmed by the flames of her boyfriend's car?... Time: 9:04 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (5)
A Newt Too Far
By
Heather Parker
No one knows Clare's a witch, until her spell to catch Richard's eye goes awry - who could have guessed the difference one small eye of newt would make?... Time: 9:25 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Holiday Spirit
By
Wayne Scheer
Christmas/Hanukkah A pinch of humor can usually help when blending holidays, but as Jack learns, you've got to know when enough is enough. General audience. Humorous.... Time: 9:48 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (3)
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10-20 Minute Stories
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The Wrong Man
By
Warren Bull
Sometimes, the wrong man is the right man for the job. Humorous. Some sexual references.... Time: 10:07 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Just a Kiss
By
Hanna Rabb
Just kissed by the guy of her dreams, Charlotte is horrified to learn that he is only trying to win a bet with his high school buddies. Her best friend is not about to shrug it off and together they dream up the perfect plan to get even.... Time: 10:13 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Covered Dish Casseroles
By
Beth Groundwater
A woman faces grief the only way she knows how, with the offer of a covered dish casserole.... Time: 10:40 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
I'll Call You
By
Mort Castle
Have you ever wondered who's there, when the phone rings in the middle of the night and all you hear is silence? Supernatural, some profanity.... Time: 10:59 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (4)
And Miles to Go
By
John Chabot
A man on his way over the mountains to complete a job, runs into a bump along the road. Some violence.... Time: 11:20 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (5)
Altenmoor, Where the Dogs Dance
By
Mort Castle
When he needs to know the truth of things, or just if the dogs are dancing, the boy turns to his grandfather.... Time: 11:38 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Collections
By
Kevin David Anderson
Zombies and a smarmy collector for the banks - what more could you want?... Time: 11:53 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
The Clambake
By
Barbara Quinn
A widow breaks free and has a sensuous encounter on the night of the town's annual clambake. Nominated for Pushcart Prize. Sexual reference.... Time: 12:25 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Country Fried
By
Sandra Seamans
When sheriff Jolly Perkins' son is kidnapped by one of the county's troublemaking families in order to win the release of one of their kin, his best friend Seamy Brown hatches a plot to rescue him. The problem is, Seamy never does anything right.... Time: 12:49 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Myrna
By
Faith Gardner
A lonely woman uses some very unusual tactics in her desperate search for love.... Time: 13:07 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
In the Heart of Texas
By
Artis Henderson
Grace is a young widow, still haunted by loss but trying to begin a new life with a new boyfriend. On the way to their new home in California, they stop to visit her in-laws in this story of second chances.... Time: 13:26 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
A Feast for Fools
By
JoAnne Lucas
It's All Fool's Eve and some smart-alecky clowns are serving up death in the town's poshest restaurant, owned by a brother-sister team. Now the sister must prove the case, or her chef brother might be accused of wielding the killing knife.... Time: 13:54 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
On the Border
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Tracie McBride
The leaders of opposing armies try to use the Book and its Bearer to avoid bloodshed, but the Book will extract its price.... Time: 14:13 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Courrier Noir
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Laird Long
A smoky noir bar is the setting, as two beautiful nighthawks and one hardboiled blackmailer trade blows over a folio of dirty pictures. Sexual references.... Time: 14:24 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Almost Paradise
By
Adrian Magson
Hoping to add a little zest back into their comfortable marriage, Erica talks her husband Matthew into a Mediterranean holiday. But, she did not expect to discover the exotic spice in the form of a handsome bartender.... Time: 14:57 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Workmen's Circle
By
Robert Friedman
A combative father and son take the first small steps towards a lasting truce in this story about birthdays, working, and learning what you already know.... Time: 15:48 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
The Distance Between Things
By
Gerri Leen
Lightness never came easily for Janet, and what lightness she had dissipated with each loss in her life. But now, after meeting Sam, she wonders if maybe she can find her way to a happy medium, between the light and the dark.... Time: 16:02 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Fantasy Pool
By
Laird Long
This is no idle sporting contest; for once a decade, the Leaders of the Realm gather in Bardrom Forest, around the ethereally still waters of the fantasy pool, to select the warriors and wizards who will battle to determine the next Ruler.... Time: 16:15 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
The At-Bat
By
Thomas Anselm
On a perfect September afternoon, batter Tommy Gun Kehoe squares off against pitcher Tim Josephson one last time before retirement.... Time: 16:40 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
The Naked Lady in 3B
By
Wayne Scheer
In this light-hearted story, a lonely guy discovers that there's nothing like accidentally catching a glimpse of a naked woman to stimulate his creativity. Some sexual references.... Time: 16:54 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Killer Fog
By
Tim Wohlforth
Jack London Square is shrouded in a thick suffocating fog the night P.I. Jim Wolf agrees to protect a young woman who has the largest, deepest brown eyes he has ever seen. Some profanity.... Time: 17:20 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Upstaged
By
David Glyn-Jones
When miser Giles Alleyn tries to screw Shakespeare's friends, the Burbages, he doesn't realize he will be responsible for creating a theater whose name rings through history.... Time: 17:40 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Soul Searching
By
Laird Long
Bain McCaffrey has one more debt to pay off before he can go to his eternal rest - helping the sleazeball who murdered him locate his missing soul.... Time: 17:54 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart
As Others See Us
By
Mort Castle
As this serial killer knows, people tend to see what they expect to see. And sometimes that's the last thing they'll ever see. Violent.... Time: 18:22 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Under the Clouds
By
Terry Sanville
Clare attends her graduation dance with her hopeful boyfriend and finds herself in his arms, in her dad's car, but hanging over a cliff. Some sexual references.... Time: 18:30 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Momma's Very Best Christmas
By
Cindy Seng
The twins set off to find the perfect prank gift for their snooty cousin's Christmas visit, but unwittingly start a chain of events that threatens to destroy Momma's perfect Christmas.... Time: 18:50 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (4)
The Perfect Gift
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Cynthia S. Becker
Christmas memories mingle with the aroma of a woman's holiday baking, as she thinks about the perfect holiday gift for her granddaughter.... Time: 18:50 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart
Luther J. Cobb: Last of the Old-Time Stagecoach Bandits
By
Big Jim Williams
Luther J. Cobb is a stagecoach bandit well past his prime. He is old, broke, nearly crippled, and cannot find steady work. Finally, he decides that the only thing he can do is rob one more stagecoach. But can he convince the drivers to take one old bandit seriously?... Time: 19:27 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Into Thin Air
By
Michael McNichols
With the help of Harry Houdini, a reporter delves into the deadly rivalry between two Chinese magicians and the case of his missing son.... Time: 19:34 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
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Rescue, 2005
By
Kaye George
In the days after the Katrina hurricane hit New Orleans, rescue groups turn their attention to saving pets left behind. But then, as one trio of rescuers learns, they can never really know what to expect next.... Time: 10:09 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Goodbye Blue
By
Tracie McBride
Mum's run away from home, Dad is hurling foodstuffs, and then there's poor Blue... How will the family cope?... Time: 10:16 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (4)
And Now for Something Completely Different
By
Wayne Scheer
In this sequel to A Naked Lady in 3B, we learn if a relatively well-intentioned quasi-stalker might find true love. Some sexual references.... Time: 10:55 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Willow, Weep
By
Victor J. Banis
A fog shrouded lake, a faithless husband...and a sister's love.... Time: 11:19 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Panic
By
Anita Saran
When artist Helena falls in love with a mysterious pipe player in the woods of northern Greece, she has no idea how dramatically the encounter will affect her life, her art and even the weather. Sexual references.... Time: 11:28 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Whiskey Night
By
Tom Conoboy
Two old lovers, a bottle of whiskey and one long night.... Time: 11:43 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
L'il Joe's Blues
By
Tim Wohlforth
Set back in the time when rock & roll was born, a college boy heads to a place where the blues still live. He goes for the music, but comes face to face with a killer. And all the while, L'il Joe plays on and on.... Time: 12:18 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (2)
What Child is This?
By
Victor J. Banis
Who was this little girl, this stranger? And what did they do with her Caroline?... Time: 12:37 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
The Gift of the Magi
By
O. Henry
In this classic Christmas tale of love and sacrifice, Della and Jim search for and unwittingly give each other the perfect gift.... Time: 12:51 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Waiting for Victor
By
Del Stone, Jr.
Betty never knows who she will find at the kitchen table, in this house of sleepers. But she is waiting for one man to return. She is waiting for Victor.... Time: 13:22 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (8)
The Messenger
By
John M. Floyd
Joe Perry, a lawyer who is a bit short on scruples, meets a man who claims to be an angel and who offers him a choice.... Time: 13:51 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Autumn Moon
By
Wayne Scheer
The death of an old friend and encounter with an old girlfriend causes this family man to re-evaluate his priorities. First Place, Wild Violet's Short Story Contest 2006.... Time: 14:03 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Bird's Dead
By
Mort Castle
Eavesdrop in a smoky club at a time when Jelly Roll, Louis, Miles, and Prez... all the jazz greats LIVE, all except Charlie Yardbird Parker. Some profanity.... Time: 14:15 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Kid Bolero
By
Bill Wilbur
Kid Bolero is a gunslinger whose exploits were widely read in dime novels--and he is Rally Yates's best friend. When a sheriff tries to talk Kid into taking on the mean knife-fighter Yancey Calloway, Kid thinks it might make a fine story. But Rally smells trouble.... Time: 14:32 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (7)
Dulce Domum
By
M.M. De Voe
After his older brother commits suicide, Jack searches for meaning in his brother's favorite book, only to find his suicide note in a most unlikely place, and his own reasons to live. Mature language and topics.... Time: 15:07 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
A Life Story
By
Wayne Scheer
In this literary short story, an elderly bluesman discovers dignity in his music and his life.... Time: 16:00 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Jewel of Denial
By
Barry Ergang
Lanie Truscott has worked hard to build a good reputation for her B&B, but now someone's made off with her guests' valuables. In this comic tale, she finds the culprit is a little too close to home.... Time: 16:05 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (1)
It Had to be Done
By
Robert Friedman
A humorous tale about domestic accidents, philosophy, and growing up.... Time: 16:38 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (6)
Curse of the Cyberhead's Wife
By
Bruce Boston
When her husband all but abandons her for his new cyberlife, what can she do but follow?... Time: 16:54 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Do the Right Thing
By
Karen Burgess
Detective Kathy Martinez convinced Lerone Johnson to do the right thing and testify against the man who killed her neighbor. So when the jury fails to convict him, Kathy feels she must protect Lerone and her daughter. But can she?... Time: 17:02 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (1)
The Girls
By
Victor J. Banis
Can a dog know real love? If you doubt it, you didn't know The Girls.... Time: 17:29 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (9)
Dog Universe
By
Diane D. Gillette
When her young niece descends on her relatively ordered life, it may take dog diplomacy to save them both.... Time: 17:50 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Dumb Son
By
Floris M. Kleijne
Sweet, mentally challenged Toby has simple desires: collecting pretty Coke bottles, eating steamed dumplings at the Chinese restaurant, and collecting the trophies he keeps in his secret place under the park bandstand. But then, a very angry man tries to take his trophies back.... Time: 18:02 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Time, the Thief
By
John Chabot
A tourist meets a man who tells him stories he has made up ... or has he?... Time: 18:27 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart
Pirate Summer
By
Bryan Catherman
Young Ashton learns the mettle of a real pirate during summers spent on the fishing pier and on one old man's boat.... Time: 18:39 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart
Not a Daffodil
By
Bruce Holland Rogers
A light-hearted story about an American man living in London who discovers that there are many ways to be British.... Time: 18:50 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Wishing
By
Sara Hoskinson Frommer
If only his brother could hear the voices he hears, and understand how angry the cars are at him.... Time: 19:02 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart
The Pick-Me-Up Truck
By
Denise Dietz
Two kids get more than they bargained for when they play a trick on an old man who has grown mean with drink. A coming-of-age story with a little violence.... Time: 19:27 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
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20-30 Minute Stories
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Terminus
By
T.F. Davenport
A contract killer, a dead tycoon and a gray future where time itself may be the enemy.... Time: 20:16 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Sayonara, Mr. Chips
By
Sunny Frazier
Can a tuna-sandwich-wielding sumo wrestler P.I. solve the mystery of a wealty businessman's death without setting himself up to be the next casualty?... Time: 20:41 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Crab Lines
By
Barbara Quinn
A woman hands down the lessons she learned from her grandparents while catching and cooking crabs. Honorable Mention in Writer's Digest contest. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize.... Time: 21:20 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Ankle Biters of Old Arizona
By
O'Neil De Noux
Crusty trail guide Willie Beedle leads a tenderfoot dime-novelist out of Tombstone on a fool's errand, a search for the elusive wild Chihuahuas of the Dragoon Mountains.... Time: 21:35 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (7)
Flower-Crusher
By
Laird Long
Failed axeman Darryl Turcotte is taking the long, slow bus ride back to a sheet metal oblivion when he meets up with a girl, and things really go bad. Some profanity.... Time: 21:58 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Faith in the Good Doctor
By
Kurt Bachard
A disquieting tale about human frailty, and what happens when stark reality finally intrudes on a faith-healer's belief.... Time: 22:21 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Sliding Into Twelve
By
Margaret A. Frey
The summer of her twelfth birthday, Jules nearly murders her sister - unintentionally, she hopes.... Time: 22:32 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Hand Signals
By
Venita Blackburn
A love story that cannot be communicated with mere words, in a toy shop amidst the spirit of forced globalization.... Time: 22:56 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Fear Factor
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Kevin David Anderson
When Nog the dragon tries to put his destructive ways behind him, the Guild of Magical Creatures is not amused.... Time: 24:01 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (6)
Eating Grass
By
Robert Paul Blumenstein
A boy watches and learns in the slow pace of his granddaddy's store, but nothing could prepare him for the day his insufferable cousin runs afoul of an odd, angry woman.... Time: 24:16 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart
The Day Miriam Hirsch Disappeared
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Libby Fischer Hellmann
The day Miriam Hirsch glides into his life, Jake begins to understand passion. The day she disappears, he begins to understand dangerous passions.... Time: 25:27 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Budd's Auto Body Angels
By
Robert Friedman
The worst little league baseball team in history has a season full of surprises, disasters - and heroism.... Time: 25:50 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (7)
Making the Jump
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Belea T. Keeney
As his daughter and the pony she's outgrown compete in their last event together, the divorced man watches and struggles with his own aging.... Time: 26:10 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart
Dragon Psychology
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Andrea Bodel
Diplomacy is tricky when you look like dragon food.... Time: 26:34 / $0.89 Sample Add to Cart (8)
Stuck in Valhalla
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J.D. Webb
When he runs low on gas, Dave Christian takes the exit to Valhalla, only to discover that getting out of town won't be so easy.... Time: 26:54 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (5)
Return of the Warrior
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Laird Long
A mighty, reluctant warrior is forced to re-arm and do battle with an exasperatingly evil Wizard, all in the name of fairer taxation.... Time: 27:16 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
ValkYra of the Damned
By
Kassandra Kelly
Brendan and his best friend are spending the summer working on their graphic novel, ValkYre of the Damned, when he discovers his version of their zombie-fighting heroine working at the local Hamburger Palace. Then a sudden, strange disorder begins affecting customers...... Time: 27:26 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Graveyard Days
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Daniel Wallace
Sometimes love and death can walk hand in hand.... Time: 28:06 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (8)
Man on the Run
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Laird Long
A cold-weather cabbie hell-bent for sunnier climes and brighter days picks up one last fare, a bitter young woman who steers him in another direction. Some profanity.... Time: 28:32 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (7)
One Night at Ollie's Stump
By
Jonathan C. Gillespie
If experience is a wizard's best teacher, then collateral damage is his classmate.... Time: 28:52 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (1)
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Broken Hearts
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Laird Long
A P.I. is hired to find a wealthy man's missing daughter, until the man is murdered and his heart cut out, leaving him to deal with the craziness. Some profanity.... Time: 20:29 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (1)
FYI
By
Mort Castle
Just how does one human prepare to kill another? Violent and for mature audience... Time: 21:18 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Uncontested Candidate
By
Robert Paul Blumenstein
In this funny story, Lonnie Poteate decides it's high time someone did something to spruce up Slate Creek. He decides to run for mayor, but gathering supporters doesn't go quite as he'd hoped.... Time: 21:24 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (5)
Over Her Head
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Jennifer Gennari
She's young and pregnant and her boyfriend wants to get married. The only place where she doesn't feel in over her head, is her old college pool... Time: 21:57 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart
Welcome to Antoinette's
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Victor J. Banis
On a cold Christmas Eve, a homeless man learns to give.... Time: 22:03 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart
Call Out
By
Adrian Magson
Former Royal Military Policewoman Sally has a serious problem: her younger half-brother Terry. He's as bent as a dog's hind leg and just as dim, and is soon in deep water. When his vengeful business associates come calling, it's Sally who has to step up to the plate.... Time: 22:30 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
His Girl
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Daniel Wallace
She watched her father watch her friends, until she felt invisible.... Time: 22:45 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (3)
The Burnside Winked
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Loretta Sylvestre
A wandering doe invades Burnside Manor and sparks a chain of events as wild as a carnival ride - with some spunky old soldiers at the controls.... Time: 22:56 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart
A Lady of Quality
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Warren Bull
A young black woman in the '60s demonstrates the meaning of quality in this tale which won the Missouri Writers' Guild Award for the best short story of 2006.... Time: 24:05 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Playing with Fire
By
Barry Friesen
In a pacifist community the elders try to contain tensions between members, while young Isaac tries to contain the growing fire of his own spirit. When his grandfather calls on Russian soldiers to punish a member, it sparks a fire that will not be easily doused--but which also opens a new door.... Time: 25:04 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Pearls Before Swine
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Caroline Campbell
A novelist worries for his sanity and his life as the real world dissolves into the increasingly bizarre imagery of his mind.... Time: 25:35 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
The Tale of Trapper Tommy
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Belea T. Keeney
When a trapper finds mutilated animal corpses in the wood, the stage is set for an encounter with something wilder than he ever dreamed.... Time: 26:01 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (1)
The Greenest Knight
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Jennifer Moore
Only a fool would risk life and limb for a blue thunder beast egg. And that's where Gadrin comes in...... Time: 26:23 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart
Henderson's Place: The Girl with the Summer Eyes
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Mort Castle
Henderson has his special, hidden away place, the place where he meets The Girl with the Summer Eyes.... Time: 26:51 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (6)
Detour
By
Libby Fischer Hellmann
She's uncomfortable with her dad's old employer checking to see if she's gone into the family business, and then things get dangerous. Some violence and profanity.... Time: 27:08 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Moon on the Water
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Mort Castle
Three jazzmen searching for the perfect sound in old-days Chicago, and then a woman steps out of the lake.... Time: 27:22 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Something in Their Eyes
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Belea T. Keeney
The story of a horse rehabilitation operation that rescues men as well as horses.... Time: 27:34 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Zinggong
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Jim Musgrave
In 2852, the U.S. is a wild west tourist attraction, where police sergeant Julian Gaston discovers the secret behind the shooting death of Duplicant Sheriff Wyatt Earp.... Time: 28:14 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Father Figure
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Simon Wood
A two-bit con man gets the break of a lifetime when he discovers that his father is a software mogul. With a bit of truth as bait, he begins to spin his web.... Time: 28:43 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Flamingo Fatality
By
Beth Groundwater
Diane is just enjoying a simple lunch hour walk when she discovers a dead pink flamingo, and is thrust into the mystery behind it--accompanied by an eccentric old woman and a very handsome cop.... Time: 28:55 / $0.99 Sample Add to Cart (2)
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What Were You When You Were Alive
By
Jim Musgrave
A Gulf War veteran wins a different kind of "Survivor Game" in San Diego, fighting prejudice against the homeless.... Time: 30:12 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Vista with Player
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R.A. Allen
On a Christmas afternoon, an impudent golfer meets more than his match when he interrupts an armed man enjoying the view.... Time: 30:25 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (5)
Beautiful, Faithful Asian Ladies Seek Friendship
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Daniel Wallace
Love comes in many ways. Sometimes it even comes via airmail.... Time: 30:49 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (5)
The Murder of Katie Boyle
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Libby Fischer Hellmann
When the body of Katie Boyle tumbles out of a closet in a North Shore health club, it will take two women to solve the case. This story marks the first pairing of this author's two series' protagonists.... Time: 31:20 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (5)
The Placebo Effect
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Richard O'Donnell
Mademoiselle Necker unleashes more than she bargained for when she agrees to conduct a seance for the wealthy, bereaved Mr. Neville.... Time: 31:56 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Striker Out
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Bruce Boston
Steel Striker is no planet-bound local, but a Silesian swampdog-swilling man of action with a comet tattoo. When two Oblongions hire him to recover the stolen crown of Orb, he jumps headfirst into this space opera parody knowing just one thing - it won't be easy.... Time: 33:42 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Chain of Command
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Mike Wiecek
Forensic accounting with a bullet: a hit man roots out corporate deadwood. Dark humor.... Time: 35:01 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (4)
American Legend
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Erv Bobo
When the country was young and families were moving westward, they found a man had gone before them, planting orchards of apple trees.... Time: 38:20 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (4)
House Rules
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Libby Fischer Hellmann
If Marge had known their trip to Las Vegas would break all the rules, she would have gone to the Wisconsin Dells. Her husband thinks his luck has changed when they find a valuable hidden cache, but when the box's owners come looking for it, it seems their... Time: 38:43 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (8)
Fit to Die
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Thomas Millstead
It's brains and brassiness versus biceps and brawn as a diminutive private eye stumbles onto murder among the bulging maxi-muscled.... Time: 41:14 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Aunt Charlotte
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Courtney L. Mroch
Ashley thought her Aunt Charlotte was dead, until the day that the elegant woman returns to the family home, with danger in tow.... Time: 45:45 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (6)
The Obsessed
By
Del Stone, Jr.
All things are endless, or so Miriam believes as she stands in front of the weathered farmhouse where her old Love, Locke, grieves over the mysterious loss of his Patricia. Miriam thinks the love she once shared with Locke must be endless. But she finds other emotions can be endless too.... Time: 47:51 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Rule of Threes
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Corinne Duyvis
A tiny Australian town has been overrun by strange and deadly creatures, forcing Cath to flee with her nephews across the desert. Under the brutal summer sun, survival extracts its price.... Time: 50:21 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (3)
The Licensed Reverends of the No Name Church
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J. Michael Shell
Jess Clairbone paid fifty dollars to become a "Licensed Reverend," and then he built a little church in the woods that attracted an unlikely band of parishioners. It also attracted the attention of some with darker intentions.... Time: 52:52 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (2)
The Story Rug
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McKenna Donovan
The Most Favored Weaver of the Chinese Empress hopes to escape the walls of the Exalted Palace by finding a weaver whose skills surpass her own. But at what cost?... Time: 57:32 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (8)
This Crowded Night
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Elrena Evans
Christmas/religious. It's a cold night in Beit Lechem and their inn is overflowing, when a young man and his heavily pregnant wife arrive at the door. What can the innkeeper's wife do, but midwife.... Time: 60:26 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (1)
Holy Spirit
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Sally Bellerose
Even the loneliest and most mundane lives can be transcended.... Time: 63:36 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart |
Bridegoon
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Laird Long
An anxious husband and the P.I.s he hires to track down his missing wife learn the hard way that mail-order brides often return to sender, and sure don't come with any money-back guarantees.... Time: 30:25 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Never Kill a Cat
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Miles Archer
There is an old saying among mystery writers--never kill a cat. This story about an old lady whose beloved cat is killed by a wicked neighbor boy shows why--when she decides to seek vengeance.... Time: 30:43 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (6)
Single Pickle Day
By
Peter Andrews
When there's one lonely pickle, floating in an ocean of juice, the kids know that dinner will be wild. But even they could not imagine just how wild Single Pickle Day can get.... Time: 31:02 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (4)
Dead Aid
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Denise Dietz
A girl's dearest wish lands her on the Dead Aid quiz show, and enters her in a macabre dance with the dearest wishes of the other kids.... Time: 31:25 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (1)
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
By
Keri Clark
When Caitlin McCarty discovers the body of the Sitkum Daily's cleaning lady--missing an arm, brain, and a few choice organs--it looks like the work of a rogue zombie. It also looks like the rogue was trying to send a messge--but to whom, and why?... Time: 32:53 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (6)
The Blesser
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Kassandra Kelly
As if living with the ghosts of her addictions and her boyfriend's suicide aren't enough for realtor Ronnie to cope with, now she's got a House Blesser who keeps discovering ghosts in the houses she's trying to sell.... Time: 34:54 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (6)
Ants
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M.M. De Voe
Pull up a chair and enjoy this tale of a rich woman who insists she's communing with intelligent ants. Is it possible they know something about her missing two-timing husband?... Time: 35:50 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (10)
Tenths of a Second
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Simon Wood
A struggling young racecar driver is given the chance to get an edge on the competition - but at what cost?... Time: 38:39 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Kill Leader
By
Mark Troy
Private Eye Val Lyon's got her hands full protecting pro volleyball player, Paula Evangelista. "Vengelista" leads the league in kills, but someone is threatening to put an end to her streak and maybe her life.... Time: 39:00 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart
The Roman and the Regency
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Merrie Fuller
In this time-travel romance, Miss Penelope Duncroft finds much more than a place to hide from the rain when she ducks into a strange old shop.... Time: 41:45 / $1.09 Sample Add to Cart (3)
Sioux City Express
By
Laird Long
Tough-guy Charles Sydney is on the bloody, body-strewn trail of a stolen cache of stamps, with only the phantom Sioux City Express to guide him along his way. Named one of the 50 best mystery shorts of 2002.... Time: 47:33 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (2)
Jangle
By
Brynn Bonner
A record store owner discovers a vinyl gem at a garage sale, but goes home with more than she bargained for when she also buys a few items belonging to a just-released prisoner. A lighthearted crime story.... Time: 48:30 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart
Annie's Blue Christmas
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Denise Dietz
In this amusing tale, Annie's doctor has just told her she's got an incurable illness and she suspects her husband of two-timing her, but she's not about to go quietly into the Christmas night.... Time: 52:06 / $0.00 Sample Add to Cart (2)
The Art of War
By
Miles Archer
When a South San Francisco waste hauler comes under pressure from a crime boss looking to expand, the owner turns to P.I. Doug McCool for help. McCool cannot hope to out-muscle the wise guys, but with the help of "The Art of War," by Sun-Tzu, he may be able to out-think them.... Time: 55:44 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart
Stranger than Fiction
By
Dennis R. Upkins
After repeated botched assignments, the demon Zeke is given one last chance to save his immortal hide by eliminating a target on Earth. Posing as a babysitter in the target's home, Zeke befriends young VJ, but soon learns all is not as it seems. Tweens and up.... Time: 57:35 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (5)
Structural
By
Owen Kerr
A beautiful woman with a name not her own, cryptic orders from the mysterious Alphas, and a guy who may be in over his head.... Time: 61:08 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (1)
In the Leaves of Grass
By
Del Stone, Jr.
Randy is suddenly aware that he is on a road with eight strangers and, it seems, the devil. They walk. They relive memories. But what, Randy wonders, is he supposed to learn?... Time: 70:31 / $1.29 Sample Add to Cart (1)
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