Some Stories & Poetry

 "The Sequel" is a short story that takes place in an outdoor movie line in suburban Kansas, and was chosen for the inaugural issue of The Ivo Review, which focuses on the theme of "connections." You can download a free copy of the whole journal here.

 

"Under the Wig" tells a tale of criminal justice, revisionist history, and an escaped monkey on the loose. You can read it here on the Dumbo Press website.

Over the past twenty years I've published two poems: one a jokey homage to smartphone use by philosophers, the other an SF fantasia about nanites from another world. The first was published in Philosophy Now! magazine and is available here; the second can be found here on the website for Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
 

"Quest for the Sacred Tome" is a sentimental tale about the love of computer games, and perhaps other kinds. It's available here, with a neat (I think AI-crafted) illustration on the New English Review's website.

​

 "Password Protected" is a cheerful, halfway-romantic SF tale about a near future where identities can be shed like a lizard's skin, and all forms of beauty are borrowed.  Also free to read in Cornice, as of May 2023.

​

 If you're into darker stuff, "Escalation" is an honestly pretty nasty tale about how wrecked civilizations get their own citizens to help clean house. Free to read in the beautifully produced and consistently terrifying horror webzine The Dread Machine.

​

My one attempt at sword-and-sorcery,  "The Enemy's True Name," came out in 2017 and is archived here in the consistently impressive (& locally published) Heroic Fantasy Quarterly. A brilliantly edited and performed podcast version of the story is available here at The Wandering Tavern.

​

Almost all the rest of the fiction I've published is conveniently listed on my Amazon author page.