NEW (as of March, 2007) “Detail” has been reprinted in the third issue of Behind the Wainscot, a side project of the online magazine Farrago’s Wainscot.
This story originally appeared in issue 11 (fall 2001) of the print magazine Conduit. The painting in question is The Temptation of St. Anthony (left panel), a nice large image [...]
NEW (as of April, 2007) I’ve placed the full text of this story here for your reading enjoyment.
This story appeared in issue 5 of the print magazine Electric Velocipede. Back in 1995, it appeared in Shadowdance, a magazine that isn’t around any longer. It’s set in the same world– same city, even– as both “Sunfast” [...]
Set in a rather strange future, this story appears in the chapbook Rabid Transit: Menagerie.
When she finally got though the door, Moonhead Lunes knew her heart was gone: she could see fragments of broken candy-box still melting into the shag. The jagged blue edges of gluco-glass were only slightly softened, but she doubted she’d find [...]
When editor Dan Braum asked for a different kind of mummy story for his Spirits Unwrapped chapbook, I came up with this tale set at the court of Khubilai Khan.
I mixed historical information about the Khan with images and ideas from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem, but the mummy is based on a real one, [...]
This story is set in the Blackstone River Valley early in an industrial revolution somewhat different from our own. It appeared in the October 2004 issue of the print magazine Realms of Fantasy.
One September morning, Sophie and her father found a clockwork man in their courtyard, curled up in the far corner where the iron [...]
This novella is a new age gangster story. It appeared in two parts in the online magazine The Fortean Bureau, the first part in the September, 2004 edition and the second in the October issue.
The beach along that stretch is shallow for a long ways out, and at low tide you can walk on the [...]
A short story about visiting interesting, faraway places appeared in the second issue of the print magazine Flytrap. It prompted one reviewer to go so far as referring to the author as being “like some new avatar of Lewis Carroll,” which is a lot to live up to.
When I woke to find my clothes almost [...]
I contributed six science fictional beer descriptions to the February 2004 “Forty Beers” issue of the online magazine The Fortean Bureau. According to local custom where you live, these stories may be read chilled, at room temperature and/or with a twist of lime.
The Constellation Game
This one appeared in the December 2003 edition of The Fortean [...]
“Sunfast, Shadowplay and Saintswalk,” appeared in the September 8, 2003 edition of the online magazine Strange Horizons. It’s set in the same world– same city, even– as both “Moonless” (see above) and the novel I’ve been working on for the past couple years.
On the second day before the sunfast, we gathered rose hips and angelbane [...]
This was a set of very short stories about garden gnomes, antarctica, dodo birds, disco mirror balls and more that appeared in the August 2003 edition of online magazine The Fortean Bureau.
In November of 1987, a disco mirror ball was found in the back room of the Oak and Tendril, a public house located on [...]