Writing

Short Fiction

Upcoming: “The Emperor’s Funeral,” BFS Horizons.

Upcoming: “The Book Worm,” Abyss & Apex.

“The Chronoparrot Ate a Cracker,” 99 Fleeting Fantasies, edited by Jennifer Brozek. Pulse Publishing, 2024. Buy The Anthology.

“Tell Me About Your Job Experience,” Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #92 (Q3 2003). Buy The Issue.

“Alone Along the Outer Night,” in House of Zolo. Read Online.

“Town Hall,” In Another Time. Summer 2023. Buy The Issue.

“Invisible Forces at Work,” in The Colored Lens. Summer 2023. Buy The Issue.

“Send in the Clones,” Metastellar. 4 May 2023. Read Online.

“Easy Money,” Corporate Catharsis: The Work from Home Edition. Water Dragon Publishing, 2022. Buy The Anthology.

“The Man She Knew,” The Arcanist, 16 September 2022. Read Online.

“Kings and Popes and Saints,” Apex Magazine #133. Read Online, or Buy The Issue.
    Reprinted in Year’s Best Fantasy: Vol. Two, edited by Paula Guran. Pyr, 2023. Buy The Anthology.

“A House Divided,” Daily Science Fiction, 20 June 2022. Read Online.

“The Duelist,” Wight Christmas: Holiday Horror and Seasonal Subversion, edited by Martin Munks. TDotSpec, 2021. Buy The Anthology.

“In the Lair of the Moonmen,” Realms of Fantasy, December 2006.
    Reprinted in Sword & Sorceries, Volume 3, edited by David A. Riley. Parallel Universe Publications, 2021. Buy The Anthology.

“The Memorial,” Flash Point Science Fiction, 24 September 2021. Read Online.

“Cake,” Martian Magazine, 18 June 2021. Read Online.
    Reprinted in Martian Year 1, edited by Eric Fomley. Shacklebound Books, 2022. Buy The Anthology.

“The Plowshare,” Daily Science Fiction, 5 May 2021. Read Online.

“The Betrayals of Flying Jim,” Distant Shore Publishing, 9 April 2021. Read Online.

“A Slow Corruption,” Allen K’s Inhuman Magazine, Fall 2011.

“Goddess,” Abyss & Apex, July 2006. Read Online.
    Reprinted in The Best of Abyss & Apex, volume 1, edited by Wendy S. Delmater. Abyss & Apex Publishing LLC, 2009. Buy The Book.

“Dream Melons,” A Field Guide To Surreal Botany, edited by Janet Chui & Jason Erik Lundberg. Two Cranes Press, 2008.

“How to Draw the Dark Lord in Ten Easy Steps,” Ideomancer, December 2007.

“Breathe,” Flytrap, Fall 2007.
    Reprinted in Dragon Gems: Winter 2024, edited by Steven Radecki. Water Dragon Publishing, 2024. Buy The Anthology.

“In the Lobby of the Mission Palms,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, June 2007.

“Mandatory,” Aberrant Dreams, Autumn 2006.

“The Book of Ant,” Twenty Epics, edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi. All Star Stories, July 2006.

“Start Spreading the News,” Michigan Avenue Review, Spring 2006.

“Matilda,” Lenox Avenue Magazine, “Mechanical Oddities,” Sep-Oct 2005.

“Orders,” Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, Summer 2005.

“No Mosquito Is A God,” Lone Star Stories, Jun-Jul 2005. Read Online.

“Erin and the Dinosaurs,” Abyss & Apex, Jan-Feb 2005. Read Online.

“Along with the Usual,” Scattered, Covered, Smothered, edited by Jason Erik Lundberg. Two Cranes Press, 2004.

“Twelvepenny Weather,” Albedo One, February 2004.

“Evening with the Minotaur,” Path of the Just, edited by James Lowder. Guardians of Order Press, 2003.

“‘Griffin Cordon Bleu,’ from The Magik Art of the Chef,” Eggplant Literary Productions’ Library, April 2003.

“Library of Mars Catalog Record for We All Did Our Part, by Vincent Crivelli,” Eggplant Literary Productions’ Library, April 2003.

“The Muse Drank Hazelnut,” Kennesaw Review, Winter 2002.

“Thief, Witch, Sorcerer, Dragon, Book,” Elysian Fiction, May 2002.

“Three Nights in Big Rock City,” Black Gate Magazine, Winter 2002.

“Outlive the Consequences,” Neverworlds, Story of the Week, August 1st-8th, 2001.

“With the Dawn,” Strange Horizons, June 11th, 2001. Read Online.

“Tim Timmison at the Psionic Conference,” Planet Relish, May-Jun 2001.

“Conqueror,” Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Fall 2000.

“When the Bear Came,” Neverworlds, Fall 2000.

“Casting Call,” Nightscapes, May 2000.

“Eater,” Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance, edited by Lee Martindale. Meisha Merlin Publishing, May 2000.

“What Price, My Brother?” Dark Regions: The Special Fantasy Issue, Winter/Spring 2000.

“The Homecoming of Grimwolf the Fierce,” Dragonlaugh, August 1999.

“The Wish,” Writer’s Block Magazine, Spring/Summer 1999.

“Hindsight,” Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy, December 1997.

“The Sudden and Dramatic Disappearance of Henry Resnick,” Nightscapes, December 1997.

“Monsters,” Midnight Gallery, Summer 1997.

“Snowball,” Sci-Fi WEBzine, June 1997.

“A Call to Arms,” Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy, October 1996.

“Demonheart,” Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Summer 1996.

“Choice,” Planet Magazine, Spring-Summer 1996.

Poetry

“The Oldest Recipe,” Penumbric, April 2023. Read Online.

“Speciation for the New Millennium,” Star*Line, Nov-Dec 2002.
    Reprinted in Little Blue Marble, 28 January 2022. Read Online.

“Demon at the Reference Desk,” Page & Spine, 9 September 2021. Read Online.

“Last Night,” Fables, Autumn 2003.
    Reprinted in Gwyllion #2, May 2021. Buy The Issue.

“Night and the Robot: A Sestina,” Star*Line, Spring 2021. Buy The Issue.

“Under the Garden in Dreams,” Electric Velocipede, Fall 2007.

“The Goblin Party,” Flytrap, Fall 2006.

“Seven Songs the Fantasy Writer Sings to His Newborn Baby,” Flytrap, Fall 2006.

“Universal Language,” Illumen, Spring 2006.
    Reprinted in Flytrap, Fall 2006.

“Weird Android,” Tales of the Talisman, March 2006 (#4).

“The Wizard Gets A Haircut,” Abyss & Apex, Nov-Dec 2005. Read Online.

“They All Know,” Star*Line, Sept-Oct 2005.

“Fall of the Enchanter: A Pantoum,” Weird Tales, December 2004.

“Another Tuesday Night in Transylvania,” Flytrap, May 2004.

“Some sleep uneasy…” Book of Dark Wisdom, Winter 2003.

“Joint Custody,” Star*Line, January/February 2004.

“The Laundromat Advances the Plot,” Strange Horizons, August 11th, 2003. Read Online.
    Reprinted in Flytrap, Fall 2006.

“We meet in dark LANs…” Random Planets: A Scifaiku Odyssey, edited by Teri Santitoro and L. A. Story Houry. Sam’s Dot Publishing, June 2003.

“Cut Down the Night,” Star*Line, Jan-Feb 2003.
    Honorable Mention in 17th Annual Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror.

“Three Double Dactyls,” Speculon, November 15th, 2001.

“Lunchtime,” Speculon, June 2001.

“Gargoyle in My Kitchen,” Flesh and Blood, Summer 2000.

“Ten Haiku,” Electric Wine, Summer 2000.

“Elder Gods play…” frisson: disturbing poetry, Fall 1998.

“Idiot god shifts…” frisson: disturbing poetry, Fall 1998.

“Untitled Haiku,” Star*Line, Mar-Apr 1998.

“Blastoff!” Eternity Online, October 1997.

Nonfiction

“Eight Unusual SFF Librarians Who (Probably) Won’t Shush You,” Tor.com, 6 May 2021. Read Online.

“I Want My 20th Century Schzoid Art, Parts I-IV,” with Barth Anderson, Christopher Barzak, Hannah Wolf Bowen, Hal Duncan, Jed Hartman, Meghan McCarron, David Moles, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Christopher Rowe, David J. Schwartz, and Bruce Sterling. Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology. Tachyon Publications, 2006.