A Deep, Cold Breath
A hard sf/horror kindle novelette. The Grey meets Aliens on a partially-terrformed ice planet. E-book only.
Short Stories
A Season’s End
Orca Literary Magazine A non-genre flash piece for Orca Literary Magazine. The folks at Orca have been great and believed in this piece enough to submit it for consideration for the Pushcart Prize!
Still Life
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, 2019 I wrote this story a long time ago and was my audition piece for entry into my current writers group, The Wyrdsmiths. I rewrote it many times since then and am thrilled to have it out with a SFWA qualified market like CR&ES. You can read it here. It […]
The Ghost of Lady Rei
Lace and Blade 5Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust (February, 2019) When Paradox Magazine closed its doors, I despaired of ever selling another Ken’ichi and Master Shichiro story. Where does one even sell Medieval Japanese detective stories? To the lovely people with Lace & Blade it turns out. In this installment, the duo are called […]
The Tsar’s Dragons
Edited by Jack Dann and Gardner DozoisAndersen Press Ltd 2009 The Russian revolution, but with dragons. Years later we turned this into the well-received novella, The Last Tsar’s Dragons. Vivid, gripping and actually riveting as the Red Danger takes a whole new meaning here. Loved it. —The Book Smugglers
Mesopotamian Fire
Eclipse 3Edited by Jonathan StrahanNight Shade Books 2009 A quick, funny story featuring a student with a dragon complaining about his grade.
Little Red
with Jane YolenFirebird 2009Edited by Sharyn November The single creepiest story I have ever written—and I like to think that’s a pretty high bar. An edgy YA story that touches on abuse, insanity, and the thin line between the dream state and the waking world. I imagined the ending while in that strange place we […]
Kitsune
Paradox Magazine 2006 Kitsune was the second story I wrote in the series about Master Shichiro and his servant Ken’ichi. I started this one with no idea of a plot, I just wanted to keep writing about Master Shichiro and Ken’ichi, two characters I had a great deal of fun with. So I put Keni’chi […]
Burning Down the House
DAW 2004Edited by Martin H. Greenberg A group of house rehabbers break throw a wall and find a portal into Hell. Research involved Dantes Inferno and a great non-fiction book about the devil his history called The Old Enemy.
The Three Truths
Paradox Magazine 2005 The Three Truths was not a story I wanted to write. Don’t get me wrong, I thought the idea of a historical samurai detective story was great, but as I knew absolutely bugger all about Japan in general and even less about the samurai class in particular, the amount of research required […]