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Short Stories

If you scroll your cursor down the list of short stories, you will find some links to online publications. Also, you can look at the "Short Fiction" page (thumbnail above) for the complete list of things you might like to read.

1995

• "Transubstantiation" to Strange Wonderland (never actually published. my first magazine death!)

1996

• "Love-in-Idleness" to Midsummer Night's Dreams (this story is pretty much disavowed. but I promise if you ever find a copy, it will make you feel so much better about anything you may be unproud of in your own work.)

2000

• "The Company of Four" to Scheherazade
• "The Devil You Don't" to Amberzine

2003

• "Tiger! Tiger!" to Shadows Over Baker Street
• "Ice" to Ideomancer (in a much, much, much different form, this is the first chapter of All the Windwracked Stars)
• "The Dying of the Light" (with Amber van Dyk) to Fortean Bureau
• Hammered novel excerpt to Harpur Palate
• "Speak!" in the Winter 2003 issue of On Spec

2004

• "This Tragic Glass" to Scifiction
• "The Chains That You Refuse" to ChiZine
• "Old Leatherwings" in Lenox Avenue
• "Lod" (Polish-language "Ice" reprint) in Nowa Fantastyka
• "Seven Dragons Mountains" to All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, Wheatland Press, Jay Lake and David Moles, ed.
• "Sleeping Dogs Lie" to Flytrap
• "When you Visit the Magoebaskloof Hotel, be Certain not to Miss the Samango Monkeys" to Interzone

2005

• "Two Dreams on Trains" to Strange Horizons (reprinted in Gardner Dozois' YBSF, reprinted in Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, James Patrick Kelly/John Kessel, ed. Tachyon Press 2007)
• "Follow Me Light" to SCIFICTION (reprinted in the Datlow/Link/Grant YBF&H 2005 and Best New Paranormal Romance)
• "Botticelli" to The Agony Column (this is reprinted in The Chains That You Refuse with what I think is a vastly improved ending, as the first was apparently too obscure. But it is, you know, thinly disguised and very thinky Man from UNCLE meta-slash, so go team me.)
• "One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King" to Lenox Avenue (this is chapter one of One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King, which will be Promethean Age #5 if enough of you buy #s 1-4. *g*)
• "And the Deep Blue Sea" to SCIFICTION (this will be reprinted in Wastelands, an anthology of post-apocalyptic SFF forthcoming from Night Shade Books, edited by John Joseph Adams)
• "House of the Rising Sun" to The Third Alternative (This is chapter two of One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King. Just to keep things interesting.)
• "Long Cold Day" in SCIFICTION
• "Wax" in Interzone (Locus recommended list, reprinted in Fantasy: The Best of the Year, free audio version at the Subterranean Press website.)

2006

• "Los Empujadores Furiosos" in On Spec
• "Wane" to Interzone
• "The Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe" in Subterranean #4 (Danger, Will Robinson! That link leads to a .pdf of the entire magazine, and it is BIGGER THAN YOUR HEAD.)
• "Lucifugous" in Subterranean 5
• "Sounding" in Strange Horizons
• "Ile of Dogges" (with Sarah Monette) in Aeon 7 (reprinted in Gardner Dozois' YBSF for 2006)
• "Dos Sueños con Trenes" ["Two Dreams on Trains," Spanish-language version] in Cuasar #42, Marzo
• "The Cold Blacksmith" in Jim Baen's Universe (Reprinted in Best Of Jim Baen's Universe, Volume 1)
• "Gone to Flowers" in Eidolon, Eidolon Books, Jonathan Strahan & Jeremy G Byrne eds.
• "Love Among The Talus" in Strange Horizons

2007

• "War Stories" in Baen's Universe
• "Cryptic Coloration" in Baen's Universe
• "The Rest of Your Life in a Day" in Baen's Universe
• "The Something Dreaming Game" in Fast Forward Pyr Books, Lou Anders, ed.
• A portion of the forthcoming novel One-Eyed Jack & The Suicide King, serialized in Subterranean.
• "Matte" in Fictitious Force
• "Inelastic Collisions" in Inferno from Tor books, December 2007, Ellen Datlow, ed.
• "Abjure the Realm" in Coyote Wild
• "Tideline" in Asimov's (!Finally sold a story to Asimov's! For your reference, IA was still editing the mag when I started submitting to it.) (Reprinted in the Dozois Year's Best SF)
• "Orm the Beautiful" in Clarkesworld. (Reprinted in the Strahan Year's Best Fantasy)
• "Black is the Color" in Subterranean, Summer 2007
• "The Ladies," at Coyote Wild, December 2007

2008

• "Hobnoblin Blues" in Realms of Fantasy, February 2008
• "Annie Webber" in Nature, 2008
• "Your Collar" in Subterranean, 2008
• "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall," in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Ellen Datlow, ed.
• "Shoggoths in Bloom," in Asimov's, March 2008 (reprinted in the Hartwell & Cramer Year's Best Fantasy, the Rich Horton Year's Best SF, and an audio version available in Allan Kaster's Top Ten Tales Of Science Fiction)
• "Boojum" (with Sarah Monette) to Fast Ships, Black Sails, Jeff & Ann VanderMeer, ed. (Reprinted in the Gardner Dozois Year's Best SF, the Rich Horton Year's Best SF, and the Hartwell & Cramer Year's Best SF).
• "The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder" at Tor.com, September 2008
• "The Red in the Sky is Our Blood," in METAtropolis, John Scalzi ed., available as an audiobook from Audible.com
• Shadow Unit (with Emma Bull, Sarah Monette & Will Shetterly), ongoing

2009

• "King Pole, Gallows Pole, Bottle Tree," in the Ellen Datlow anthology Naked Cities.(forthcoming)
• Bone & Jewel Creatures, (a novella) from Monkeybrain books (forthcoming)
• "Mongoose" (with Sarah Monette) in the Ellen Datlow anthology Lovecraft Unbound. (forthcoming)
• "Snow Dragons" in Subterranean Magazine (forthcoming)
• "The Red in the Sky is Our Blood," in METAtropolis, John Scalzi ed., available as an anthology from Subterranean Press
• The Czech magazine Ikarie will be printing translations of "Tideline," "Wax," and "Wane" to appear in 2009.
• "Tideline" will be appearing in Italian translation in the magazine Robot in February 2009.