“The Button Bin”

2008 Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story
First appeared in Helix: Science Fiction Quarterly, Oct. 2007
Now at Apex Magazine, April 2011 (click to read)

other appearances
Audio podcast, Pseudopod, June 2009
Original Transcriptase page

The Black Fire Concerto

“Part One: The Red Empress”

Audio podcast, Tales to Terrify, June 2009 (click to listen)

“Part Two: Bone Mosaics”

Excerpt published at Black Gate, 2013

“The Blessed Days”

First appeared in Tales of the Talisman, Vol 4. No. 4, Spring 2009
Adapted as podcast at Pseudopod, Jan. 2010 (click to listen)
Adapted as podcast at Kaleidocast, Aug. 2018 (click to listen)

“Blue Evolution”

First appeared in Aftermath of an Industrial Accident (Mythic Delirium Books, 2020)
Published as a promotion in The New Decameron Project, May 15, 2020

“The Butcher, the Baker”

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 289, Oct. 24, 2019
Also published by Beneath Ceaseless Skies in audio format (click to listen)

“The Cruelest Team Will Win”

First appeared in Corvidae, ed. Rhonda Parrish (World Weaver Press, 2015)
Adapted as podcast at Podcastle, Oct. 2016 (click to listen)
Read by the author on The Story Hour, Nov. 2020 (click to watch)

“Drift from the Windows”

First appeared in Tomorrow’s Cthulhu, eds. C. Dombrowski and Scott Gable (Broken Eye Books, 2016)
Adapted as podcast at Tales to Terrify, Oct. 18, 2019 (click to listen)

“The Feather Stitch”

Lackington’s, Issue 22, Fall 2020
Read by the author on The Story Hour, April 2022 (click to watch)

“A Ghost of Christmas Future”

The Roanoke Times, December 25, 2004

“The Helping Hand: A Ghost Story”

The Roanoke Times, October 28, 2013

“Her Acres of Pastoral Playground”

First appeared in Cthulhu’s Reign, ed. Darrell Schweitzer (DAW, 2010)
Adapted as podcast at StarShipSofa, Oct. 27, 2011 (read by the author)

“An Invitation via Email”

First appeared in Weird Tales, #350 Jul/Aug 2008
Adapted as podcast at Podcastle, March 2010 (click to listen)
Audio podcast, StarShipSofa, June 2009 (read by the author)

“The Ivy-Smothered Palisade”

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 93, April 19, 2012

“Let There Be Darkness”

First appeared in Penny Dreadful #6, 1998
Adapted as podcast at Pseudopod, Feb. 2012 (click to listen)
Adapted for audio by the Morgan Scorpion Youtube Channel, Aug. 3, 2019 (click to watch & listen)

“Longsleeves”

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue 190, January 7, 2016

“Monster”

First appeared in Nameless Digest, Issue 3, Spring 2014
Adapted as podcast at Pseudopod, Oct. 2015 (click to listen)

“The Quiltmaker”

First appeared in Unseaming (Antimatter Press, 2014)
Now at Apex Magazine, January 2017 (click to read)

“The Spider Tapestries”

Lackington’s, Issue 8, Fall 2015

“Tardigrade”

First appeared in A Dark Phantastique, ed. Jason V. Brock
(Cicatrix Press, 2014)
Reprinted in Postcripts to Darkness, May 26, 2018

Six Thaumatrope microfictions:

“Ants stir the sleep of the woman in the glass coffin…,” May 30, 2009
“He sweeps down the highway, broom erasing center lines…,” Jun 9, 2009
“Harry didn’t understand why the beachcombers kept screaming…,” Jul 2, 2009
“Triggered after eons, aliens we believed to be our own “brains” awoke…,” Jul 7, 2009
“A cruel joke returned his soul (briefly) to his body…,” Aug 1, 2009
“Climbing in the gears above the Cosmic Sphere…,” Aug 14, 2009

“Then a millstone came along…”

Cabinet des Fées, Nov. 2005

“Tick Flick”

The Drabblecast B-Sides 56, Dec. 29, 2014

“The Vintage Dress: A Ghost Story”

The Roanoke Times, October 31, 2014