Online Fiction
Cover art for Subterranean 5 by Tim Truman
If you wanted to get an idea of what my writing is like, the free samples (except for novel excerpts, which are on their respective pages) are all collected here, for your pleasure.
Short Fiction and Novel Excerpts
"Sonny Liston Takes the Fall" is another story of the Promethean Age.
Shadow Unit, an ongoing hyperfiction project currently comprising over a quarter of a million words of free! online! narrative! featuring fiction be Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Amanda Downum, Leah Bobet, Holly Black, Sarah Monette, and, er, me.
"Shoggoths in Bloom," originally published in Asimov's, March 2008.
"Tideline" podcast at Escape Pod
"The Something-Dreaming Game" podcast at Escape Pod
"And the Deep Blue Sea" podcast at StarShipSofa
A .pdf of "Boojum" (written with Sarah Monette) available courtesy of Wired
"The Ladies", at Coyote Wild, December 2007
"Your Collar", at Subterranean Press: another story in the same universe with "Orm the Beautiful".
"Cryptic Coloration", originally published in Baen's Universe. Another Promethean Age story.
"The Rest of Your Life in a Day", originally published in Baen's Universe. A Promethean Age story, with penis tattooing.
"The Chains That You Refuse", originally published at Chizine: a story I wrote because Celia Marsh bet me I couldn't write a story in the second-person future perfect tense and have the POV choice serve the story. Also available as a podcast here.
"Tideline", originally published at Asimov's: the touching story of a robot and her boy. (Also online at Asimov's here, and podcast at Escape Pod here.)
"Black is the Color" at Subterranean Press: a short modern-day fantasy story about a horse and a girl. This is a Promethean Age story.
"Lucifugous" at Subterranean Press: contrafactual history with magic, detectives, and dirigibles. This is the first story in the New Amsterdam collection.
"Wax" audiobook at Subterranean Press. This is the second story in New Amsterdam.
"Two Dreams on Trains" at Strange Horizons: a science fiction story about art, ambition, and the generation gap.
"Love Among the Talus" at Strange Horizons: fantasy, about the things that are missing from history.
"Sounding" at Strange Horizons: slipstream about the fate of adventurers, and the people who wait for adventurers. This is a Promethean Age story.
"The Cold Blacksmith", a fantasy short story with fairytale elements. This is a Promethean Age story.
"The Company of Four", another fantasy short story with fairytale elements. This is a Promethean Age story.
"And the Deep Blue Sea", an apocalyptic science fiction story about a motorcycle messenger and an unpaid debt. Also podcast at StarShipSofa, here.
"Los Empujadores Furiosos," a story about a man, a door, and la Tauromaquia.
"Follow Me Light" is my most-reprinted story. A Lovecraftian category romance. This is a Promethean Age story.
"One-Eyed Jack and the Suicide King" is the first chapter of the fifth Promethean Age novel (not yet in print), and also a short story on its own.
"House of the Rising Sun" is the second chapter of the fifth Promethean Age novel (not yet in print), and also also a short story in its own right.
An excerpt from One-Eyed Jack & the Suicide King at Subterranean Press: urban fantasy set in Las Vegas.
"Long Cold Day" is another Promethean Age short.
"This Tragic Glass" is a science fiction short story with time-traveling historians. I'm really pretty sure this one got lost on the way to Connie Willis's place, but I'm happy to have it.
"Orm the Beautiful" at Clarkesworld is a fantasy story about a woman and a dragon and a museum.
"Abjure the Realm" at Coyote Wild is a good old fashioned swords-and-sorcery story, complete with wicked witches and undead armies... maybe.
"Ice" at Ideomancer: an apocalyptic Norse tale that proved one of the seeds for the Edda of Burdens.
"The Devil You Don't", another story about Muire from the Edda of Burdens. This one fills a little bit of her long and adventuresome life.
"The Dying of the Light" with Amber Van Dyk at Fortean Bureau: a slipstream nontraditional format nonlinear short story. Extra points if you can name whose grave that is.
The first three chapters of Blood & Iron are here: One, Two, Three.