NOVELLAS

TIMSHALA, a stand-alone fantasy novella (90 pages, about 20K words), published by The Book Smugglers on October 29, 2018. Free to read online at the publisher’s website, or $1.99 on Amazon.

BURIED ABOVE GROUND, A Nightspell prequel novella (50 pages, about 10K words), published by HarperImpulse on July 2, 2013. $5.99 on all platforms, including Amazon and Nook.

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SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

Seven of my previously-published fantasy stories are now available as a convenient e-book!

 $2.99 from B&N

 $2.99 from Amazon

 $2.99 from Smashwords

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Science-Fiction Stories

• “A Sideways Slant of Light,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2020.
• “A Pack of Tricks,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2020.
• “The Disappeared,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 2019.
• “Uncommon,” published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, July/August 2019.
• “Cost of Wonder,” published in IGMS, Feb 2019.
  • Podcast by Escape Pod.
• “Parenting License,” published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, March/April 2019.
• “Blue as Blood,” published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2019.
• “All the Difference,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Jan/Feb 2019.
• “Attachment Unavailable,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 2018.
• “The Forgetting,” published in Daily SF, Feb 2018.
• “In Defense of the End of the World,” published in Daily SF, Sept 2017.
  • Reprinted in Timeshift: Tales of Time, 2018.
• “On the Ship,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 2017.
  • Podcast by Starship Sofa.
• “Cupid’s Compass,” published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2016.
  • Podcast by Starship Sofa.
• “BLU3RD,” published in Persistent Visions, August 2016.
• “Filtered,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2016.
• “Forgiveness,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2015.
  • Reprinted in Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2015.
  • Podcast by Cast of Wonders.
• “What We Ourselves Are Not,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, September 2013.
  • Reprinted in Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013.
  • Podcast by Starship Sofa. 
• “Distant Like the Stars,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2013.
  • Honorable mention in The Year’s Best SF by Gardner Dozois.
• “Nanny’s Day,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, March 2012.
  • Nominated for a Nebula Award.
  • Podcast by Starship Sofa.
• “Twelvers,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July 2011.

Fantasy Stories

• “Of Them All,” published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2020.
• “Stepsister,” published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2020.
• “Across the River,” published in The Mythic Dream (Saga Press, Sept 2019).
• “Best Served Slow,” published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2018.
• “Chocolate Chip Cookies with Love Potion Infusion,” published in Galaxy’s Edge, April 2018.
• “Neko Brushes,” published in Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2017.
  • Reprinted in Epic Fantasy Short Stories (Flame Tree Press), November 2019.
• “The Fifty-One Suitors of Princess Jamatpie,” published in Unidentified Funny Objects, December 2012.
• “Straw-Spun,” published in Swords & Sorceress 27, November 2012.
• “Clockwork,” published in Two & Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes, October 2012
• “Fair Trade,” posted on the Merry Sisters of Fate blog, May 2011.
• “Shalott’s Inn,” published in Sword & Sorceress 23, November 2008.
• “Dead Silent,” published in the Summer 2008 issue of HelixSF.
• “Silent Blade,” published in Strange Horizons, July 2006.
• “Quests, Inc.,” published in the August 1995 edition of Kaleria.
• “Changelings,” published in Odyssey #4 (1998).
• “Temple of Stone,” published in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Spring 1997.

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Illustration to “Temple of Stone” By Armand Cabrera Reproduced with permission