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Everything on this page is free fiction for you to enjoy. A significant selection of my essays is available here. Thank you so much for your time and eyeballs. If you liked something and want to contribute to the noble cause of keeping your writer in coffee and food, do slip a coin in the automat.

Novels

The Labyrinth (first novel, 2004) (Free PDF download)

The first eight chapters of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Short Fiction

White Lines on a Green Field
Subterranean Online (August 2011)

The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland–For a Little While
Tor.com (July 2011)

The Wolves of Brooklyn
Fantasy Magazine (July 2011)

How to Become a Mars Overlord
Lightspeed Magazine (August 2010)

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Space/Time
Clarkesworld Magazine #47 (August 2010)

Secretario
Weird Tales #356 (Summer 2010)

The Days of Flaming Motorcycles
Dark Faith (May 2010)

The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew
Clarkesworld (August 2009)

The Harpooner at the Bottom of the WorldSpectra Pulse Magazine, Summer 2008:

A Buyer’s Guide to Maps of Antarctica
Clarkesworld Issue #20

La Serenissima
Endicott Studio

The Ballad of the Sinister Mr. Mouth
Lone Star Stories:

Urchins, While Swimming
Clarkesworld Magazine

Bones Like Black Sugar (Full text at Clarkesworld Books)
Fantasy Magazine

Poetry

A Silver Splendour, A Flame
Goblin Fruit (March 2011-December 2011)

The Secret of Being a Cowboy
Stone Telling (March 2011)

Goblin Fruit Spring 2008 Featured Poet. Includes the poems:
The Jeweler’s Wife
The Girl With Two Skins
Landscape With Girl And Clams
The Ballad of All the Things I Might Have Written

Farrago’s Wainscot:
The Immigrant
Rampion
The Seven Devils of Central California
(also appearing in 2007 Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror)

Goblin Fruit:
Past the Rivers
Flax
Errata

The Journal of Mythic Arts:
The Child Bride of the Lost City of Ubar (Nominated for the Rhysling Award)

Heliotrope Magazine:
Pasiphae’s Machine

Mythic Delirium Issue #14:
The Descent of the Corn Queen of the Midwest
listen to full text reading by author (mp3)

Lone Star Stories:
Helen in the Underworld
The Frog-Wife


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