Short Fiction

“Sunday in the Park with Hank” in The Deadlands issue 15, July 2022.
Locus 2022 Recommended Reading List for Short Fiction.

“The Mysteries” in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 43, June 2021.

“The Instructions” in Neon: A Literary Magazine, Spring 2021.

“The Bear Wife” in Apparition Lit, April 2020.

“One Hundred Tasks for Bones” in The New Decameron Project, March 17, 2020.

“La Bête” in Strange Horizons, week of March 9, 2020.

“Over/Under” in Nowhereville: Weird is Other People, Scott Gable and C. Dombrowski, eds., Dec. 2019.

“Mountaineering” in Strange Horizons, week of September 12, 2018.

“Wild Card” in Superheroes, Rich Horton, ed., March 2013.

“The Ground Whereon She Stands” in Realms of Fantasy, June 2011.
Reprinted in Witches: Wicked, Wild and Wonderful, Paula Guran ed., March 2012.

“Stay” in Chilling Tales: Evil Did I Dwell — Lewd Did I Live, Michael Kelly ed., March 2011.
Reprinted in The Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 4, Ellen Datlow ed., May 2012.

“A Thousand” in On Spec, Spring 2010.

“Mister Oak” in Realms of Fantasy, February 2010.

“Six” in Clockwork Phoenix 2, July 2009.
Reprinted in The Humanity of Monsters, November 2015.

“The Parable of the Shower” in Lone Star Stories #33, June 2009.
Reprinted in audio in Podcastle, September 13, 2011.
Reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy 10, David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer eds.

“Boxing Day” in H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror #5, April 2009.

“Sugar” at Shadow Unit, April 7, 2009.

“Miles to Isengard” in Interzone #220, January 2009.

“Kimberley Ann Duray is Not Afraid” in Strange Horizons, week of September 29, 2008.

“Bell, Book, and Candle” in Clockwork Phoenix, Mike Allen, ed., July 2008.
Reprinted at FantasyBookSpot, July 2008.

“The Sorceress’s Assistant” in On Spec, Fall 2007.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual.

“Bears” in Strange Horizons, week of November 5, 2007.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #21.

“Scars” in H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror, September 2007.

“The Girl From Another World” in Strange Horizons, week of August 13, 2007.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #21.

“After the War” in Sybil’s Garage #4, March 2007.

“Three Days and Nights in Lord Darkdrake’s Hall” in Strange Horizons, week of January 29, 2007.
Reprinted in audio in Podcastle, week of February 16, 2010.

“Furnace Room Lullaby” in Fantasy Magazine #5, December 2006.
Reprinted in audio in Pseudopod 113, week of October 24, 2008.

“Lost Wax” in Realms of Fantasy, December 2006.
Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy, Mike Ashley, ed, August 2008.
Reprinted in audio in Far-Fetched Fables #12, July 2014.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #20.

“Deer’s Heart” in Chiaroscuro, October-December 2006.
Second-place winner of the 2006 Chiaroscuro/Leisure Short Story Contest.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #20.

“And its Noise as the Noise in a Dream; And its Depths as the Roots of the Sea” in On Spec, Fall 2006.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #20.

“Lagtime” in On Spec, Summer 2006.

“Towers” in Strange Horizons, week of March 13, 2006.

“Metis” in On Spec, Winter 2005/2006.

“The Girl With the Heart of Stone” in Strange Horizons, week of January 9, 2006.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #20.

“Dog Days” in TEL: Stories, November 2005.

“They Fight Crime!” in Strange Horizons, week of October 10, 2005.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #19.

“Bliss” in On Spec, Winter 2004-2005.
Reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2006, Rich Horton, ed., July 2006.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Twenty-Third Annual Collection.

“Building A Taller Chair” in Fortean Bureau, March 2005.
Reprinted in Farrago’s Wainscot Issue #1-1, Winter 2006.

“Sonnets Made of Wood” in Realms of Fantasy, December 2004.
Given an Honourable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror #18.

“Midnights on the Bloor Viaduct” in On Spec, Summer 2004.

“Displaced Persons” in Strange Horizons, week of August 2, 2004.
Reprinted in The Year’s Best SF and Fantasy for Teens, Patrick Nielsen Hayden and Jane Yolen, eds., May 2005.
Reprinted in The New Paper Trails, Jess Fitzgerald, ed., July 2011.

“Dawn in Metropolis City” in Truth, Justice, and the… Thomas Deja, ed., February 2004.

“Rosewater for His Lips” in Arabella Romances, January 2004.

“Mavis T. Brigham’s Week: September 8th to the 14th” in Full Unit Hookup, Fall 2003.

“Spirits” in Fortean Bureau, November 2003.

“Key of Heaven” in Aoife’s Kiss, September 2003.

“Teeth” in City Slab: Urban Tales of the Grotesque, June 2003.

“Acts of Monk” in Planet Relish, May 2003.

“Teapot” in Vivisections, William Simmons, ed., April 2003.

“Gloria Spirituum Sanctorum” in Scared Naked Magazine, March 2003.

“With the Help of Your Good Hands” in On Spec, Winter 2002.
Recipient of the 2003 Lydia Langstaff Memorial Prize.

“Playing the Dozens” in Ideomancer, October 2002.
Reprinted in F/SF, David Bain, ed., June 2005.

“Oil and Charcoal on Canvas” in Morbid Musings, November 2001.