"The Children Who Walked Out of the Sea" is a hauntingly sad story of loss and grief. You can read it online at Metastellar.
My delightfully disturbing story "Lament" is featured in the April 2026 issue of Exquisite Death.
Feeling burnt out? It can happen to anyone, even the most super of heroes. It might help to make a few "Changes".
Brian Aldiss was a Grandmaster of science fiction, but his opinions of the genre were not always favourable. I wrote an essay taking issue with some of his views and countering some of his reasoning. It is published in the British Science Fiction Association's critical journal
Vector.
Memory makes us who we are, but who would you be if you could take someone else's memories instead of making your own? My short story "Memoir" explores this idea. You can read it in issue 27 of Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction.
You can read my unsettling drabble "Rabbit Rabbit" and many others in the Drabbledark III anthology from Shacklebound Books. A drabble is a story that is exactly 100 words long. It's not easy to tell a complete story in so few words, but these stories pack a punch!
"Regodless", a story about faith and uncertainty, is free to read online at 7th-Circle Pyrite.
You can read my creepy-cosy story "The Rustling Leaves of Autumn" online now in Stupefying Stories.
My fantasy story "No Greater Man" is included in the anthology We Who Are About to Die: A Heroic Anthology of Sacrifice from Rogue Blades Entertainment.
My flash fiction "Burning Holes in Clouds" appears in the second issue of Irish flash journal Splonk. It's online and it's free. Read it now!
My science fiction story "As Friends Rust" appears in issue 4 (December 2019) of Constellary Tales. Read it free online!
My experimental short story "The Weight of a Song in My Mouth" is in the Spring 2017 issue of Irish literary journal Crannóg.
Steve Antczak and I have co-edited another anthology together. Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables is an anthology of nine classic fairy tales retold in steampunk settings. It includes stories by K. W. Jeter, Steven Harper, Kat Richardson, Paul Di Filippo, Jay Lake, Nancy A. Collins, G. K. Hayes, Gregory Nicoll, and Pip Ballantine.
Publishers Weekly called it "one of the most inspired mash-ups of the year."
Clockwork Fairy Tales is available in bookstores now.
My short story "Breakers" appears in the new anthology from Digital Science Fiction called Therefore I Am "Breakers" is a near-future science fiction adventure tale of the dangerous, rough-and-tumble lives of a freelance space salvage crew who find more than they bargained for when scavenging a mysterious spaceship.
The print book is no longer available, but the anthology can be downloaded for Kindle. Get it now!
I co-edited (along with Steve Antczak and Martin H. Greenberg) a new horror anthology called Zombiesque, a collection of zombie stories -- told from the zombies' point of view. No, these are not your standard brain-dead moaning, shambling mounds -- these are scary shambling mounds with personality!
The anthology features stories by Nancy Collins, Charles Pinion, Tim Waggoner, Richard Lee Byers, Robert Sommers, Seanan McGuire, G. K. Hayes, Jim C. Hines, Sean Taylor, Jean Rabe, Gregory Nicoll, Del Stone Jr., S. Boyd Taylor, Laszlo Xalieri, Nancy Holder, and Wendy Webb.
The book is available now at bookstores everywhere. Go!
With all the carving I do, I've learned a little bit about rocks and things. Enough that I was hired by the venerable Whitman Publishing Company to write A Guide Book of Minerals, Rocks, and Gemstones for them
If you're interested in rocks, or if you just like high-quality reference books with lots and lots of pretty pictures, this one should definitely be in your library.
While Wandering a Vanished SeaPublished in Leviathan 3 (Ministry of Whimsy Press), winner of the 2003 World Fantasy Award for best anthology.
"Ballardian in imagery and affect."--Rich Horton, Locus Online
"A haunting tale that questions the nature of memory, and how it defines our perception of reality and identity." --William Thompson, SFSite