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Below you will find a list of all the short stories I’ve had accepted as of March 21, 2004, listed in the order in which they were accepted. If a story has not yet been published, the date of acceptance is indicated. If it has been published, the date of publication is indicated. Most of these stories have been published in either print or electronic magazines. If the publication is an anthology, I’ve included the editor’s name.

Many of these stories are available online. Click on a linked title and you’ll be taken there. If the story is not available, but the publication has a website, I’ve included a link to that site.

If a story has been reviewed, click on [review] below the story title and you’ll be taken to the review (or reviews).

I hope you find this information useful, and I hope you like these stories.

Story Publication information

“That Curious Gap in the Line”	SDO Ghost (accepted March 2004)
“More of a Warning”	Flashshot (accepted March 2004)
“One Solution to the Current Problem”	Flashshot (accepted March 2004)
“The Reality Monkeys Spin Ever Faster”	Flashshot (accepted March 2004)
“Working the Hotline”	Fusing Horizons (accepted March 2004)
“How to Make a Chicken Out of Dinosaur Bones”	Neverary (accepted March 2004)
“Dead Air”	Monthly Short Stories (accepted March 2004)
“Everybody’s a Critic”	Beyond Centauri (accepted March 2004)
“The Cycle of Predator and Prey”	Full Unit Hook Up (accepted February 2004)
“The Ancient Secret of Invisibility”	Kidvisions (accepted February 2004)
“Fate”	Scared Naked (accepted February 2004)
“Blind Date at the Crossroads Bar”	Project M. Zine (accepted February 2004)
“Where Did You Go?”	SFReader 2003 Short Story Contest (accepted February 2004)
“Travel Advisory”	SDO Fantasy (accepted February 2004)
“No One Has an Idea”	To Troy and Back anthology (accepted February 2004)
“Dead Man With a Stick”	Challenging Destiny (accepted January 2004)
“A Matter of Principle”	Between Kisses (accepted January 2004)
“The Measure of All Things”	Kidvisions (accepted January 2004)
“A Matter of Perspective”	Between Kisses (accepted January 2004)
“Feeding the Great Pumpkin”	Monthly Short Stories (accepted January 2004)
“Aliens Enter the Conversation”	The Fortean Bureau (accepted January 2004)
“Ohio is the Nicest State”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted January 2004)
“How to Make a Man Fall in Love With You”	Eggplant Literary Productions Library (accepted January 2004)
“Zombie Kama Sutra”	Eggplant Literary Productions Library (accepted January 2004)
“The Curse…”	Flashshot (accepted January 2004)
“Download”	Fusing Horizons (accepted January 2004)
“No Problem!”	Flashshot (accepted December 2003)
“That’s Nothing”	Bloodlust UK (accepted December 2003)
“Plastic!”	Flashshot (accepted December 2003)
“A Really Good Question”	Flashshot (accepted December 2003)
“Gotta Love Those Bad Boys”	Flashshot (accepted December 2003)
“When Cane Met Coup Stick”	Flashshot (accepted December 2003)
“No Barnum, No Egress”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted December 2003)
“The Mark VI”	Flashshot (accepted December 2003)
“All Access Sightseeing”	Antipodean SF (accepted December 2003)
“A Question of Manners”	Flashshot (accepted November 2003)
“Welcome to Ferndale”	Flashshot (accepted November 2003)
“You’ll Have to Apply Elsewhere”	Flashshot (accepted November 2003)
“Any Other Questions?”	Nocturnal Ooze (accepted November 2003)
“Parakeets and PBJs”	Oceans of the Mind (accepted November 2003)
“Who’s Laughing Now?”	Flashshot (accepted November 2003)
“It’s the Quiet Ones You Have to Watch”	Flashshot (accepted November 2003)
“O Tannenbaum”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted November 2003)
“That’s More Like It!”	Kidvisions (accepted November 2003)
“Try Not to Let the Living Spoil It”	Kidvisions (accepted November 2003)
“To Worship the Breaker of Horses”	Blasphemy (accepted November 2003)
“Blind Date”	Flashshot (accepted November 2003)
“Who Are You Wearing?”	Flashshot (accepted November 2003)
“It’s Never Too Late”	Flashshot (accepted November 2003)
“The Woman From the Place of the Stones”	Chimeraworld anthology (accepted October 2003)
“Painting With Children”	Nocturnal Ooze (accepted October 2003)
“Necronomicon.exe”	Eggplant Literary Productions Library (accepted October 2003)
“Monopoly”	H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror (accepted October 2003)
“The Age of Wishes”	SDO Fantasy Published October 2003.
“Not Such Bad Men After All”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted September 2003)
“Got Psi?”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted August 2003)
“Switch”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted July 2003)
“Amontillado Cam”	HP Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror (accepted July 2003)
“Buy an Acoustic Recorder Today”	Café Irreal (accepted July 2003)
“The Story of H”	Café Irreal (accepted July 2003)
“Meet the Reaper”	Flashshot (accepted June 2003)
“Sometimes It’s Okay”	Flashshot (accepted June 2003)
“Watching the Paradigm Shift”	Flashshot (accepted June 2003)
“There’s the Flaw in Your Logic”	Flashshot (accepted June 2003)
“Just Another Day in the Big Apple”	Flashshot (accepted June 2003)
“Not Exactly Its Primary Appeal”	Flashshot (accepted June 2003)
“The Fine Print”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted June 2003)
“Welcome to the Phobia Group”	deathlings.com (accepted June 2003)
“Tomorrow’s Question”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted May 2003)
“You’d Think So, Wouldn’t You?”	Flashshot (accepted May 2003)
“A Question of Nerve”	Flashshot (accepted May 2003)
“U U B Us”	Abyss & Apex (accepted May 2003)
“The Two Hundredth Minute Man”	Grave Possessions anthology (accepted April 2003)
“Good Man and the Sword”	The Fortean Bureau (accepted April 2003)
“The Tree Squid”	Eggplant Literary Productions Library (accepted April 2003)
“Instead of the Giant Beaver”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted April 2003)
“The Librarian’s Glasses”	SDO Fantasy (accepted April 2003)
“The Fourth Stone”	SDO Fantasy (accepted April 2003)
“Earthmen Will Believe Anything”	Oceans of the Mind (accepted April 2003)
“Cletus Learned Eventually”	Flashshot (accepted March 2003)
“The Day They Invented Art”	Flashshot (accepted March 2003)
“Keeping Education Relevant”	Flashshot (accepted March 2003)
“Inhuman Shield”	Flashshot (accepted March 2003)
“Not Quite Time to Open the Diary”	The Palace of Reason (accepted March 2003)
“The Lion House Mirror”	Dark Lurkers anthology, edited by Paul Melnickzek (accepted March 2003)
“Just a Random Check”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted March 2003)
“If You Liked W, You’ll Love Z”	Full Unit Hook Up (accepted March 2003)
“This Bar is Mine”	Trip the Light Fantastic Anthology (accepted March 2003)
“Posthumous Portraits”	Eggplant Literary Productions Library (accepted March 2003)
“Gene Talk”	Eggplant Literary Productions Library (accepted March 2003)
“An Impossibility, Nicely Executed”	AlienSkin Magazine (accepted February 2003)
“Minimal Interference”	Twin Cities Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy Published February 2003.
“Everything Old is New Again” [review]	Abyss & Apex (accepted February 2003)
“The Stones of Stupidity and Deceit”	Paradox (accepted February 2003)
“Death and Taxes”	Handheld Crime Published January, 2003.
“The Secret but Happy Story of the Loch Ness Monster”	Flashshot (accepted January 2003)
“That Part’s Accurate Enough”	Flashshot (accepted January 2003)
“The Policeman, the Pedant, and the Handheld Nuke”	Flashshot (accepted January 2003)
“War of the Worlds”	Flashshot (accepted January 2003)
“What Makes Them Sick on Ork”	Flashshot (accepted January 2003)
“Learning Not to Be So Nice”	SBD SF & F Published January 6, 2003.
“Ancient Promises, New Possibilities”	The Palace of Reason Published February 2003.
“Family Traditions”	AlienSkin Magazine Published February 2003.
“Healing in the Absence of an Oral Culture”	Abyss & Apex (accepted January 2003)
“WWHD”	Penumbric (accepted January 2003)
“You Still Look Good to Me”	Flashshot (accepted January 2003)
“Contact”	Flashshot (accepted January 2003) (accepted for reprint in the RedWritingHood flash fiction anthology, April 2003.)
“VFO”	Flashshot (accepted January 2003)
“Snow Angels”	Flashshot (accepted December 2002)
“Salt Kisses at Midnight”	SDO Fantasy Published January, 2003.
“This Too, Too Sullied Flesh”	SDO Fantasy Published January, 2003.
“Mardi Gras”	Flashshot (accepted December 2002)
“Chi Kung”	The Fortean Bureau (accepted December 2002) This story won Honorable Mention in the First Annual Firebrand Fiction / SFReader Short Fiction Contest in December 2002.
“The Jesus Chip”	The Palace of Reason Published December 2002.
“Vintage” [review]	Café Irreal Published February 2003
“Here Kitty Kitty, Kitty Kitty”	Electronic Tales (accepted October 2002)
“Midnight at the Ichnologist’s Ball” [review]	SCI FICTION Published January 8, 2003.
“Well Met by Moonlight”	Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (accepted October 2002)
“Disciplining the Furniture” [review]	Café Irreal Published February 2003. As Of Yet Untitled has accepted this story for reprint in 2003.
“Unicorn’s Revenge” [review]	Penumbric Published December 2002. Accepted for reprint in the SICK anthology, February 2003.
“Turn the Card Over”	The Poet’s Canvas (accepted September 2002)
“OneTrueLove.com”	Twin City Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy Published in volume 1, issue 1, October 2002.
“Check Your Pockets”	SBD SF & F Published September 2002.
“The Thing Under the Rug”	The Fortean Bureau Published in issue 3, October 2002.
“The Anarchic Hand” [review]	The Palace of Reason Published October 2002. Reprinted by Whim’s Place, January 2003.
“Mermaid World” [reviews]	Ideomancer Unbound anthology, edited by Mikal Trimm and Chris Clarke, published 2002.
“God’s Gift” [reviews]	Leaps of Faith: A Science-Fiction Anthology, edited by Karina and Rob Fabian, published January 2003. This anthology is a finalist for the 2002 Dream Realms Awards .
“And That’s How We Got Here”	The Palace of Reason Published August 2002. A slightly revised version of this story was accepted for reprint by Story House under the title “Go Ahead, Make a Wish” in October 2002.
“Signs and Portents”	Other Dimension Published July, 2002.
“Fearless Vampire’s Hunter Shoppe”	Bloodlust UK Published May, 2002.
“One More Day in My Room”	Would That It Were Published in volume 3, issue 2, September 2002.
“The Road to Cedar Rapids”	The Mammoth Book of Tales of the Road edited by Maxim Jakubowski and M. Christian.
“Shades of Meaning”	The Palace of Reason Published July 2002
“Throne of Blood”	High Fantasy Online Published April, 2002.
“Voices in the Dark” [review]	3SF Published in issue 2, December 2002.
“Next Year”	Flashquake A revised version of this story was accepted for reprint by Flashshot December 2002.
“Ramifications”	Why I Hate Aliens edited by Marissa Lingen. (Accepted February 2002.)
“Welcome to Mystery Hill”	Malefica Published February, 2002. This story won Honorable Mention in the ReadingWriters Haunted House story contest, October 2002. A revised version of it was also accepted for reprint by Penumbric December 2002.
“Nanojacked”	deathlings.com This story won deathlings.com’s Technology Run Amok story contest, January 2002.
“The Smile” [reviews]	Gateway S-F Magazine A revised version of this story was reprinted in Leaps of Faith: A Science-Fiction Anthology, edited by Karina and Rob Fabian, published January 2003. This anthology is a finalist for the 2002 Dream Realms Awards .
“The Reasons for the Rules” [review]	Ideomancer.com Published in Volume 1, issue 2, February 2002.
“Forms of Fire”	Every Other Weekly Published October 31, 2001 (Volume 5, issue 1)
“Up From the Depths”	Best of the Midwest’s Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology Published 1993.
“The Poacher”	Aberations Published in issue 14, 1993.
"The Man Not Traveling Through Time"	The And Published January 1993. This story was republished January 2003 by The Eternal Night.
“Frenzy of Love”	Aberations Published 1992
“Rough Trade”	The Obligatory Sin Published in issue 6, 1991.
“The Beetle and the Butterfly”	Star Triad Published in volume 1, issue 1, 1991. This story won Honorable Mention in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine’s Short-Short Story contest, 1990.
“Doing That Which is Necessary”	The Barbarian Scroll Published in issue 14, 1990
“The Maltese Llama”	The Beatnik Flyer Published 1990.
“Night Riders to Vashon”	After Hours Published in issue 6, 1990.

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