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Fiction
- Wind in the Reeds
- I was pondering what to write for issue 3 of Membra Disjecta when my 2-year-old pointed to a picture and said “Kokopelli.” So that’s what I wrote.
- Inheritance
- Who will come to your funeral? Perhaps more importantly, who will wait outside?
- The Garden of Dreams
- Vignette for The Wicked Chocolate Factory. Description coming soon.
- Excerpt from Shadow of the Antlered Bird
- In the woods, in the dark of night, you can find help, and you can find danger…and sometimes you don’t know quite what you find. Scene from my novella from Drollerie Press
- In the woods, in the dark of night, you can find help, and you can find danger…and sometimes you don’t know quite what you find. Scene from my novella from Drollerie Press
Poetry
- Earth Day
- From Aria Kalsan Anthology: Mysteries of the Future. Worlds-weary traveler Kaia MareImbrium finds solace when very far from home.
- Subterranean Song
- Sometimes a one-night stand carries obligations that last beyond death…
- what lurks
- Shadows seen from the corner of the eye, described in a ghazal.
- increments
- A modern ghazal: one man’s longing for a faraway love, expressed in snapshots of the universe, from near and far.
Satire
- Zen Fundamentalist Kills Parents on Road
- This is the version that appeared in The Cynic. A different version appeared previously in The Wittenburg Door under the title “The Fundamentalists Next Door.”
- Closed-Minded People Protest Their Portrayal in Harry Potter Books
- The real reason Harry Potter has so many people upset. Originally published in And How! Site contains some gratuitous profanity
- Gay Marriages Threaten…Um…Something, Probably
- I’ve never heard a sensible argument against same-sex marriage…here are a few of the senseless ones. (PDF opens in new window.) Originally published in The Wittenburg Door.
- The Velveteen Golem
- In the Drollerie Press blog under “The Anthology That Never Was,” my outline for a book that (I hope) will never be written
- Index of my work in The Cynic and The FarceHaven Tribune
- From The Wittenburg Door Online
- Judges Protest Activism by Chaining Selves to Bench
- Justice Roy Moore Posts Ten Commandments of Driving
- Religion Not a Factor in Islam Deportation
- Note that the “Islam” in the title is Yusuf Islam, or the artist formerly known as Cat. To the best of my knowledge, there is no record of any nation trying to deport the whole religion–not since the Spanish Inquisition, anyway
