short fiction

Short fiction is a dying artform generally, but alive and well in the SF genre. That's why most of my short work is SFnal, though I do occasionally write other things, such as a comedic piece reprtinted recently in Yareah.

cliched photo of typewriterIt's hard to generalize, but my short stories tend to fall into one of four categories:

Please don't scrutinize these categories too closely, as they probably won't hold up. I figure it will be easier to find something you like this way than in scrolling down a long chronological list. If you'd like to put something in the tip jar, I won't complain. If you stuff it with used tissues, I will.

Satire & Humour

"Disquieting Postcards I’ve Recently Received from My Future Self " (AE – The Canadian Science Fiction Review, Vol. 1, 1)
Online version

"An outraged diner emails the In-Vitro Café" (Defenestration Magazine, Fall Issue)
Online version

"Rebranding Thor" (Defenestration Magazine - Literary Humor, April Issue 2009)
Online version

"The Epiphany of Leonard's Toenails" (Yareah Magazine, April 2009)
Online version

"A Reluctant Emcee" ( Abyss & Apex, Oct. 2004)
Online version

"The Feet Feelers of Frigheim Nine" (Fortean Bureau, December 2004).
Online version

"The Monkey's Tail, as Told by Marcel Duchamp the Day After Charles Lindbergh Landed at Le Bourget Field" (Trunk Stories, Issue #2, December 2004)
Online version

"After the Internet" (WAG, Fall 2001)
*Nominated for a 2002 Aurora Award

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Cyberpunk

"Any Port in a Storm" (Parsec, Summer 1999)
*Nominated for a 2000 Aurora Award
Online version

"Un Port dans la Tempête" (translation of "Any Port in a Storm", Science-Fiction Magazine, Feb. 2002)
*Nominated for a 2003 Aurora Award

"Un Port dans la Tempête" (translation of "Any Port in a Storm", Solaris, Summer, 2003)

"Close to the Wind" (Far Sector SFFH, October 2003, available at Fictionwise.com)

"The Ghost and Its King" (Neometropolis, September 2004)
Online version

"Through the Lattice" (Chaos Theory: Tales Askew, Summer 2005)
Online version

"Under the Blue Curve" (Abyss & Apex, Q4, 2007)

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Alternate History

"The Afrikaners of East Nissouri"
(Would That It Were, Jan. 2002)
Online version

"The Gallant Captain Oates" (Would That It Were, July 2002)
Online version

"Thor's Brood" (The Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle, 2003)
Online version (pdf)

"The Consolation of Victory" (Paradox, January 2004)
Online version

"Gross Bodies and Light Convertible" (Oceans of the Mind, Fall 2006)
Online version (pdf)

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Generic SF

"Courage Translated"
(TT2000 Anthology, Summer 2000);
(EOTU Ezine, Feb. 2002)
Online version

"Hounding Manny" (Oceans of the Mind, Fall 2002)
Online version

"The rush of heaven downward" (Flash Me, October 2003)

"The Imitation Game" (Nostalia, October 2004)

"The Onus of Survival" (Aoife's Kiss, Fall 2005)

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