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When you hide from the pain the best way to stop it is to face those who inflict it.
The cold, urban sprawl of New York City can be tough for anyone to survive. People grow numb to the violence, build their insensitivity. A skill that is difficult for Miki Radicci.
An emancipated teen and the flavor of the art world, Miki attempts an outcast life and numbs her pain. But that’s... [click here for more] |
Trash Books |
FREE
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CPOP and the Monolith's most influential character, Absolute Valentine, returns in this special one-shot release. Written by Pete Wall (Vampyr, the Second Race), Absolute Valentine is presented in a new light, one that spotlights Wall's talents and showcases one of the Goremageddon's most popular characters in an alternate style and theme. Download "Happy Endings" now, and witness the return of Valentine.... [click here for more] |
Crushpop Productions |
FREE
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At a loose end, gentleman-swindler Mr Collin is drawn into spending an evening in Hamburg's underworld by a Russian Grand Duke in disguise - but his new friend delights in sailing close to the wind. From the elegant night club Papillon de Nuit to an illegal gambling den, can Mr Collin keep their necks and their pocketbooks intact? Frank Heller was the pseudonym of Gunnar Serner, who was the first... [click here for more] |
Kabaty Press |
FREE
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When they found the first body, no one batted an eye.
That was par for the course in Skid Row. But something with these deaths was off. They were made to look like ritualistic suicides, like something supernatural. But I knew better. Besides, I don't believe in magic.
My name is Rick Danvers and I'm an undercover detective with Robbery Homicide. I've been embedded in this slum for a week now,... [click here for more] |
Blood & Treasure |
FREE
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A new world full of possibilities…to screw the innocent.
On a colonized planet, Kelly Kharma, a private investigator, struggles to keep her head above water. If water was on the barren planet ripe for corporate development.
With cheaper rates and a disregard for rules, Kharma uses her former police training to help those who can’t find it in the system. Relentless and... [click here for more] |
Trash Books |
FREE
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To track down a killer, she must risk it all.
Bounty hunter Jinx Ballou is hot on the trail of a missing girl charged with murder. But nothing about the case makes sense. How could a teenager in a wheelchair kill her own mother and then vanish?
As Jinx delves deeper into the case, she unearths a horrifying secret that calls everything she believed about the murder into question. Worse, Jinx's pursuit... [click here for more] |
Dark Pariah Press |
FREE
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A short Christmas mystery set in the world of the Cassie Pengear Mysteries. While preparing their tinkering/ haberdashery shop for the Christmas season, Kate and Ada find a body on their doorstep. When Inspector Wainwright is sent to investigate, they start looking into the crime themselves before he can scare away all of their Christmas patrons. A short Christmas mystery of approx. 5000 words ... [click here for more] |
Lisa Anne Nisula |
FREE
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The zombie and detective genres are merged in this short story. Humanity is rebuilding after a zombie apocalypse, but that doesn't mean there isn't an occasional outbreak. Prosecutor Karen Domenick starts some routine paperwork on a woman who killed her husband as he was starting to turn into a zombie. But something doesn't add up. Was this self defense or murder?
This short story appears in the collection... [click here for more] |
Dimension Comics |
FREE
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A chance lightning strike. A reporter in the right place. A scandal that will rock America.
Journalist Jack Emery has seen it all. Embedded for the New York Standard with the 8th Marine Regiment in the heart of Afghanistan, he has covered everything from firefights to the opening of new schools. But nothing has prepared Jack for the story that is about to explode right in front... [click here for more] |
Steve P. Vincent |
FREE
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Have you met Olesya?
She’s a spy hunter. In a high-tech world of programmed assassins, betrayal and far-reaching conspiracies, Olesya and her team are the last line of defense against a covert organization that will stop at nothing to control the world.
But a new, deadlier enemy is rising.
And they have Olesya in their crosshairs...
If you love conspiracies and covert... [click here for more] |
Anomaly Press |
FREE
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Cassie Pengear thought a visit to the carnival would be fun: see some shows, eat some sweets, help her landlady’s nephew decide if the cowboy was real or an actor. But then the cowboy shot the volunteer, and he didn’t get up. Now Cassie has a ten-year-old boy insisting the cowboy isn’t a killer and a landlady insisting she help solve the killing at the carnival. Includes short... [click here for more] |
Lisa Anne Nisula |
FREE
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Juliet is too innocent.
Seth may be a vampire, but that doesn't bother Juliet.
She wants to get wrecked.
When he kisses her, she sees visions of love and death...
And she can't wait for him to kiss her again. ... [click here for more] |
Stephanie Van Orman |
Pay What You Want
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Comes with both a PDF and EPUB! Last Flight Out To Barham is a story about divine conspiracies on a nameless world. This tale focuses on one such plot to assassinate the Ambassador Meedha Cornel. This story is set in the Eastern Teeth, a scattering of immense plateaus populated with four metropolises. Between drought and pending immortality, these grand cities are drawing closer to an apocalyptic... [click here for more] |
Pleb Publishing |
FREE
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Angela Lockhart was a spy for a government agency, but the death of her husband drove her away. Only one man knows who killed her husband, a power broker named Dante who leads an international organization of assassins. But before he’ll give Angela what she wants, he needs her to do some work for him. Further complicating matters is the involvement of another government operative, playing a deadly... [click here for more] |
Percival Constantine |
FREE
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Angela Slatter’s No Good Deed is a dark fantasy tale of magic, ghosts, and marriage set in her World Fantasy Award-winning Sourdough universe.
Isobel assumed her wedding would be the grandest day of her life, but when she wakes in a ghost-filled tomb still wearing her bridal veil, it’s clear events have taken an unexpected turn.
With the assistance of a vengeful spirit... [click here for more] |
Brain Jar Press |
FREE
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Sisters.
One, an adult artist. One, a nonverbal autistic teen.
Both with a psychic ability.
Both that trouble keeps following.
Life is different now for Miki Radicci. With her long lost sister Prudence living with her, she’s determined to create a stable life. But the world is far from stable.
... [click here for more] |
Trash Books |
FREE
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What if some of the people who do those crap jobs in Las Vegas are actually angels ... or demons ... or something in between?
The maid. The blackjack dealer. Like anybody stuck in a dead-end job, they're bitter, short-tempered and sick of your shit.
They watch.
They read our trash like an oracle reads the entrails of a crow: discarded plastic cocktail cups, used condoms, soiled sheets,... [click here for more] |
Invasive Designs |
Pay What You Want
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One of the Monolith's most prolific authors, Darren DeToni, returns with a special paperback edition of "Thank You, Mr. President", originally featured in Corrogatio V, last year and features three additional short stories from DeToni, collected as only the Monolith could. We invite you to settle in, light the candles and prepare your senses, as Darren DeToni takes you on an experience you will surely... [click here for more] |
Crushpop Productions |
FREE
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When a counterfeiting ring rocks London, the trail leads to a curiosity shop and a professor offering a treatment for 'absent-minded gentlemen' - but can Detective Kenyon get to the bottom of the clever scheme? A FREE Scandinavian Mystery Classic short story! ... [click here for more] |
Kabaty Press |
FREE
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My name is Noah House: magical detective, demon slayer, and former Chosen One.
After being exiled out of polite magical society for a terrible mistake I made, I'm forced to start my own magical detective business to make do. I take the cases no one else takes, solve the crimes that the Government won't, either because they are illegal or too dangerous or would ruin the risk of certain high profile... [click here for more] |
Annulus Publishing |
FREE
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When Tucker finds a pair of psychic sunglasses, he’s convinced he can see the future. And the future is deadly!
Tucker and his boyfriend are the best in their field. They organize estate sales, using their keen eyes and marketing know-how to earn big bucks for their clients. But when they’re hired to clear out a mysterious gothic manor house, Tucker discovers a set of vintage... [click here for more] |
Rainbow Crush |
FREE
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In this classic golden age short story, a shipping case disappears - but this is a case containing £100,000 in gold bullion, sealed with the seal of the Bank of England and shipped in the custody of a trustworthy captain. How can it vanish from on board a ship? Frank Heller was the pseudonym of Gunnar Serner, who was the first internationally famous Swedish crime writer. The son of a clergyman,... [click here for more] |
Kabaty Press |
FREE
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Mitch Herron's business is death and business is good.
An assassin without equal, Herron’s latest job is no walk in the park, because fanatics hell-bent on cleansing the planet ambush Herron and turn him into a walking bioweapon.
With only days before he's used to spread the most lethal contagion in human history, Herron must hunt down the fanatics and stop their attack, knowing... [click here for more] |
Steve P. Vincent |
FREE
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It's Thanksgiving Day and Josh Katzen finds himself just off the coast of Turkey aboard the Diogenes, the converted minesweeper used as a dive platform for underwater archaeology. All is not well in the kitchen because the Turkish cook couldn't find pecans for the pecan pie. Trying to escape the volatile kitchen atmosphere, Josh hitches a ride into the city of Bodrum in search of a peaceful breakfast... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
FREE
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Ten years ago, his wife died in his arms. God saved him for Himself. Now, he wants his first love to catch her killer.
Father Tom Greer is playing with fire.
Tom Greer left Myerton six months after his wife Joan’s death, determined to leave the painful memories behind. Ten years later, now-Father Tom Greer returns for a four-month assignment as the temporary... [click here for more] |
J. R. Mathis |
FREE
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One man versus an army.
Can a rogue alchemist turn the tides of war?
The Mongol army is storming China, devastating everything in its path. Their mission: recovery of an artifact with otherworldly powers. Their General will stop at nothing to recover it.
Zhu is an alchemist in the wrong place at the right time.
He has the artifact ... and an assassin’s blade at his throat.
And... [click here for more] |
Anomaly Press |
FREE
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A trainee spy. A washed-up operative.
A doomsday cult with a city to burn.
Xiu thinks her recovery mission is leading her to the middle of nowhere, but when she reaches a derelict city on the Chinese border, she finds a seasoned operative with only a pistol, twenty rounds and a broken heart.
Cut off from the rest of the world, Xiu and her new, begrudging mentor face an unimaginable... [click here for more] |
Anomaly Press |
FREE
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Zero in the Dolomites — A Man from Z.O.M.B.I.E.Short Story
An introduction to Agent John Seven and the world of the Man from Z.O.M.B.I.E.
Seven is in Switzerland and Italy, hunting stolen bodies carrying a secret chemical created by his own agency. With only a deeply conflicted Handler, a dubious local agent and the knowledge stolen from another man’s brain, Seven must... [click here for more] |
Mutant Brainchild |
Pay What You Want
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Mike and Eva have a voyeur. "Creepy Bob," as they nicknamed him, stares at them every day from the apartment across the street from theirs. One day, they decide to put on a show, and Mike pretends to kill Eva.
A short story of about 3,300 words, with many free samples.
This story also appears in the collection Short Lives, which contains 30 short stories for $1, available here.
Includes doc,... [click here for more] |
Dimension Comics |
$0.30
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Little Veronica likes hanging out at Mrs. Life's porch. She can see the whole town from the steps, and Mrs. Life is fascinating in the way that she keeps track of all sorts of numbers and information in her little spiral-bound notebooks. So it's surprising to Veronica when the always-nice Mrs. Life has an argument with Mr. Quickel, the school health teacher and wrestling coach, about the cost of mowing... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$0.50
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When Cindy stops by the local cat shelter where she volunteers, she discovers her coworker Samantha unconscious on the floor. Even more horrifying, to Cindy, is that a mother cat and her kittens have mysteriously disappeared out into the snow. While Cindy leaves the attack to the police to investigate while she seeks out the missing cats, a second assault finishes Samantha off. Soon, Cindy’s mixed... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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Elizabeth Hart enjoys her high-powered job and her lakeside home but is tired of Officer Andrew Baird's hands-off policy. A mere ten year age gap is no reason for refusing romance, is it? As Andrew searches for the motive behind a young woman's death, Elizabeth carefully plots her revenge against the handsome man who treats her as a younger sister. By using Andrew's penchant for practical jokes against... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$0.50
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The truth is the most powerful weapon any man or woman can wield. ... [click here for more] |
Gorillas With Scissors Press |
$0.99 $0.50
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A young boy loses his belief in Santa and turns to petty shoplifting with the belief that it no longer matters if he's naughty or nice. The lesson he learns as a result is more valuable than anything he could steal. A short holiday story from our Nibs literary line.
Available in EPUB, Kindle and PDF formats. ... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$0.50
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Divine Construction
This is your first chance to meet Shadrach, an immortal who has built his small criminal empire over the ages. He has a visit from Danica who warns him of a Vatican-trained hunter closing in.
A short read for your night and check back as more clips of his life are shared... if he wishes. ... [click here for more] |
Tacitus Publishing |
Pay What You Want
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Children, it is said, are a joy forever. However, that's not necessarily true if one you've never known shows up on your doorstep mentally unhinged and bent upon revenge. District Attorney Preston Ives, fresh from convicting a serial killer, is shocked to discover a long-forgotten decision now threatens both his present and his future. A short crime story from our Fingerprints line.
Available... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$0.50
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When Marietta Becker goes undercover at a singles dance to investigate the homicide of five men, she thinks she’s discovered one of the saddest places she’s ever encountered. When her husband suddenly appears and is immediately recognized by the dance regulars, Marietta realizes there are a lot of reasons to want to kill someone. A short story.
Available in EPUB, Kindle and PDF formats.... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
$0.50
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Kid Eternity was a young man given the power to summon anyone living, from the past, or mythology after he had a near death experience. Assisted by Mr. Keeper, Kid uses his powers to fight crime and injustice throughout the world. Now, the Quality Comics character has all his prose adventures collected into a single volume. Kid Eternity clashes with gods, giants, criminals, and the forces of nature!... [click here for more] |
Mini-Komix |
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Will’s aunt wants him to spend some time with his estranged son at Christmas. All Will wants is to knock off his girlfriend’s husband and collect a share of the life insurance policy. Unfortunately, when you fail to take into account all the angles, the perfect crime can really ruin your holiday. A short story from our Fingerprints line.
Available in EPUB, Kindle and PDF formats. ... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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Little J. may live on the streets of East Harlem, but he knows those streets well enough to take decent care of himself and Gideon, the old man under his eight-year-old wing. Robbing a Christmas tree seller looks like money for jam–by now, he and Gideon have their teamwork down smooth as silk.
But when he finds Gideon badly beaten, Little J. learns that in New York City, Christmas tree lots are... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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"I know, now, what happened to Lovecraft, this I can tell. I understand his inner cravings, his hunger for knowledge, and his perception of human smallness front of the wonders of the universe. I glimpse his solitary night life and his horrors, and his death associated with cancer. Deeper than all, I knew his inspiration." And if there is a dark true behind Lovecraft`s stories? And if he left behind... [click here for more] |
Gata Parda |
Pay What You Want
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Domestic disturbance calls to the residence of Booth and Stacey Keiser aren’t uncommon. Keiser, a State Police trooper, is known for his volatile temper, and his wife has often been the target for his rage. So officers of the Swatara Creek Police Department aren’t surprised when the couple are found dead on the lawn of their home. Officer Fred Drumheiser is ready to write it off as a tragic murder-suicide.... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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George had the ideal job for a man of his talents. Who would suspect St. Nick of being a shoplifter? Now, with his Christmas “shopping” completed, George is a happy man.
That happiness is soon to be short-lived. An unwelcome visitor is about to convince him that it is better to give than to receive and may leave him holding an empty bag. Who is REALLY naughty or nice?
A humorous crime short from... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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When Judith discovers a dead body in the kiln of her pottery store, she’s convinced it’s the work of her ex-husband in an attempt to cause her trouble. After discussing the incident with members of her Scrabble Club, Judith soon learns that her ex may be off the hook, and that sticks and stones may break bones, but words can definitely get you killed. A short story.
Available in EPUB, Kindle... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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Sin Eater is a comic series about a man who can absolve sins by consuming them.
Fourteen men and women survive the destruction of the Tower of Babel. They are tasked with saving Man's soul through the act of consuming all of their accumulated sin. Through the ravages of time, the Sin eaters are always there. They view everything that you have ever done, and defeat your inner demons in order for... [click here for more] |
Sineatercomics |
Pay What You Want
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Mandy adores Bavarian Krisp donuts. A nice day at Boston Common with her niece, Ella, turns ugly when her quest for the goodies takes her down a dark path. Out of work and out of donuts. What lengths will she go to in order to satisfy her sweet tooth? A short story from our Fingerprints line.
Available in EPUB, Kindle and PDF formats. ... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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Chicago’s most monstrous criminals fear but one man: Tristram Holt, known throughout the underworld as the Corpse. Something is stealing children's eyes, and the strange clues point the Corpse toward the imaginary comic strip and radio serial stars All-American Andy and his little bear Paddy!
"Orphans of the Air" is a pulp horror story set in Jazz Age Chicago, written by best-selling... [click here for more] |
Wicked Good Publishing |
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Chicago’s most monstrous criminals fear but one man: Tristram Holt, known throughout the underworld as the Corpse. But when his most powerful enemies band together to throw wide the gates of Hell, can even the Scourge of Evil turn back an army of the walking dead?
"The Night Chicago Died" is a pulp horror novella set in Jazz Age Chicago, written by best-selling author, editor,... [click here for more] |
Wicked Good Publishing |
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For most women in the business, Atlantic City is hooker heaven, but Diana Andrews hates the downtime. She can watch her client at the blackjack table for only so long, and the in-house entertainment holds no appeal. When a new man offers her some easy money on the side, the job lands Diana in the middle of a casino rip-off, a cold murder case, and another killing so fresh that it might rub off on her.... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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Which can cause more damage - a secret between a father and a son, or the truth when it finally comes out years later? Can something as simple as a baseball card destroy a relationship between the two?
A short story from our Nibs literary line.
Available in EPUB, Kindle and PDF formats. ... [click here for more] |
Untreed Reads Publishing |
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