"Miyajima" is my second story in Abyss & Apex online magazine. It's a modern day fantasy, set on the sacred Japanese island of that name. This is my first simple love story, and it focuses on the meeting of Japanese and European and alien cultures.
I have four robot-trucker stories in Analog magazine, the genre's oldest and largest periodical.
They are "Shotgun Seat," "Rule Book," "Crooks," and "Silent Mode." Hopefully with several more to follow, in Analog and elsewhere.
A Probability Zero story, "All Too Human," appeared in the Dec. 2014 issue. A second PZ story, "Margin of Error," followed in the Jan/Feb 2018 issue.
Here's my first venture into the horror genre. 18 Wheels of Horror is an anthology with eighteen short stories, many by well-known authors. I came to the project too late to offer a story, so Big Time Books asked me to write the forward.
This book, all by itself, has more than doubled the number of stories in the trucking-horror subgenre.
I also have a reprint of "Shotgun Seat" in the well-reviewed anthology 18 Wheels of Science Fiction, which includes three other Analog authors.
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I have stories in four anthologies from the famously quirky Yard Dog Press. Give them a look!
(Many of YDP's titles are now available via Smashwords, and for the Kindle.)
"Cold Beach" is set in the same 'future history' as my robot-trucker stories in Analog magazine, however it's much darker in tone. (It's not strictly related, but has crossover elements.)
Thanks to Title Goes Here for publishing it in the November 2011 issue their new online edition.
(Apparently this ezine has gone off line. I will transfer this story to my Smashwords page.)
David Bartell and I penned a silly flash-fiction piece titled "Science Blitz." (We met via Analog magazine, and he's gone on to appear on numerous science-related TV shows.)
Many thanks to Norm Sperling and the Journal of Irreproducable Results for publishing such an odd sports-meets-science tale.
It was fun to write, and even before going to the printer, became the subject of a strange (and perhaps irreproducable) incident at Westercon in San Jose. As reported by participant Marty Halpern:
Conjuring Norm Sperling at Westercon
(In its latest incarnation JIR was a one-man show, and most regrettably Mr. Sperling had a long series of personal setbacks. One or two further issues appeared, and now the JIR web site is gone.)
My story "Mirror Girl" appeared in the Fourth Quarter 2009 edition of the fine ezine Abyss & Apex. It's set in the same basic future-history as my Analog robot-trucker stories, and relates closely to my (as yet unpublished) novel Distant Origins. ("Mirror Girl" has received an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction, 27th Edition.)
Note: the story is buried somewhere on A&A's web site archives, so I've posted it via Smashwords, in several handy formats for a modest sum.
Best of all, this story is included in the anthology The Best of Abyss & Apex, Volume Two, available in softcover and as an ebook. Buy the book, and enjoy many awesome stories!
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The popular ezine Bewildering Stories helped launch my career, by posting a lighthearted flash-fic piece titled "Only Human" in their issue #220. Later they followed up with a (somewhat controversial) short story, "Santayana Station," in issue #369.
(These two stories can also be downloaded free, in a variety of formats, from my main Smashwords page.)
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I've appeared in two issues of Sentinel Science Fiction. Lou Antonelli honored me with a spot in issue #1, with a serious time travel story titled "Cavers." I was also in issue #5, with a humorous flash-fic piece titled "Spin." (Unfortunately, Sentinal SF went off line several years ago.)
I'm now offering these 'missing' stories directly, via Smashwords, so they're available in a variety of ebook formats.
("Spin" right now, and perhaps "Cavers" when I get it polished up.)
Spin via Smashwords
Fall and Rise is an anthology from Whortleberry Press. My story "Journey" shares this collection with offerings from Robert Sawyer, Phillis Gotlieb, Jay Lake, and several other SF professionals. This story features Claude Dremmel and Doll Box. It's the first of my robot-trucker stories to appear in print, though the events depicted take place several years later than those in "Shotgun Seat."
This unusual anthology, titled SF Waxes Philosophical, was edited by Ahmed Khan, who also created Fall and Rise. My story reprint "Waveform" shares this collection with offerings from Michael Bishop, Steven Utley, Ted Kosmatka, and more. (Please contact Mr. Khan directly to obtain a copy.)
The September 2012 issue of Surprising Stories has my short story "Conspiracy Theory," followed two issues later by "Serendipity."
They're both rather strange horror-ish tales, and the action takes place entirely at a dinner table. (Note: as their back issues aren't always posted, I have added both stories to my Smashwords offerings.)
Their May 2006 issue featured my flash fiction SF story "Waveform." As the magazine no longer has that issue posted, I have offered a revised version via Smashwords. That way, it's downloadable via a large variety of ebook formats.
Waveform via Smashwords