Fiction
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Forthcoming
- 1,001 Best Hikes on Mars: The Peterson Historic Trail (“Peterson’s Folly”) (hard science fiction, experimental format) - Nature
- Reprints
- A Line in the Fading Paint (climate fiction in the Middle East) - Twice-Told Tales anthology (Water Dragon Publishing) (reprint; originally published in Nonprofit Quarterly, Oct. 2023)
- A Dragon Looks at Four Thousand (character-driven fantasy) - Dragon's Hoard 3 anthology (WolfSinger Publications) (reprint; originally published in MetaStellar, May 11, 2023)
2024
- Upper Beta Great Alcove Very Happy (family/steganography humor) - Stupefying Stories, Mar. 22, 2024 (reprint; originally published in Daily Science Fiction, July 6, 2022)
- Excerpts from After-Action Interviews Regarding the Incident at Penn Station (near-future police procedural) - Troopers anthology (Shacklebound Books), Mar. 2024 (reprint; originally published in Nature, June 21, 2023)
2023
- A Line in the Fading Paint (climate fiction in the Middle East) - Nonprofit Quarterly, Oct. 2023
- Panache! (time travel murder mystery) - Factor Four, Aug. 1, 2023
- Excerpts from After-Action Interviews Regarding the Incident at Penn Station (near-future police procedural) - Nature, June 21, 2023; reprinted in Troopers anthology (Shacklebound Books), Mar. 2024
- A Dragon Looks at Four Thousand (character-driven fantasy)- MetaStellar, May 11, 2023
- A Daronite Fence (cosmic horror)– Tales of Fear, Superstition, and Doom anthology (Redwood Press), Mar. 2023
- Clean Shot (contemporary thriller)- Mystery Tribune, Jan. 17, 2023
- Microfiction
- Professor Wertzler's Mosquitoes - The Book of Drabbles anthology (Shacklebound Books), July 1, 2023
- Jake and Marla - Love Me, Love Me Not: Dark Tales of Love & Lust anthology (Black Hare Press), Feb. 2023
2022
- Arkham Board of Health Feedback On Miskatonic University’s Draft Plan for a Safe Campus Reopening – LOLcraft: A Compendium of Eldritch Humor anthology (Dragon’s Roost Press), Dec. 2022 (reprint)
- The Way of the Unicorn – The Bookends Review, Aug. 18, 2022 (reprint)
- The Magic Box of Le Chat Sauvage de Lyon – Phantasmical Contraptions and More Errors anthology (JayHenge Publishing), Aug. 14, 2022
- Time-Tested Strategies for Escaping Conversations About Elon Musk - Slackjaw, July 11, 2022
- Upper Beta Great Alcove Very Happy – Daily Science Fiction, July 6, 2022; reprinted in Stupefying Stories, Mar. 22, 2024
- “You Idiots Really Screwed This Up”: A Message from Henry David Thoreau on the Turning of the Seasons, Climate Change, and the Purple Bladderwort – What Would Henry Do? Essays for the 21st Century, Vol. II anthology (Thoreau Farm Trust), July 6, 2022
- Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention Concerning a Council of Oracles – Sci Phi Journal, Mar. 2022
- Immune – Corridors anthology (Innsmouth Gold), Feb. 2022
- Microfiction
- Can You See Me, Sailor? – Eidetic Quarterly #1, Oct. 2022
- True Skin – Nom Nom: Hallowe’en Dark Drabbles anthology (Black Hare Press), Oct. 1, 2022
- The Bells – Nom Nom: Hallowe’en Dark Drabbles anthology (Black Hare Press), Oct. 1, 2022
2021
- Another Beloved Show Goes Off the Rails: The Disturbing Seasons 13-18 of “Your Child’s Life” – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Feb. 9, 2021
2020
- Hercule Poirot Solves the Case of the COVID Comorbidities – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Sept. 15, 2020
- Arkham Board of Health Feedback On Miskatonic University’s Draft Plan for a Safe Campus Reopening – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Aug. 20, 2020; reprinted in LOLcraft: A Compendium of Eldritch Humor (Dragon’s Roost Press), Dec. 2022
- The Broken Lives Behind the Illustrative Math Word Problems – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, July 8, 2020
- ”Who’s Laughing Now, Assholes?”: A Letter from Henry David Thoreau to Literature Faculties at Cushy Liberal Arts Schools – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Apr. 29, 2020; 13th-most viewed piece of 2020; republished Dec. 10, 2020 with author interview
Older
- The Way of the Unicorn – Redivider, spring 2004; reprinted in Bookends Review, Aug. 18, 2022
- Regrade rocked by ideological assault – Seattle Weekly, 1998
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