Free Science Fiction
- “Expiration Date” (Arbor Teas Summer Reading Series, Summer 2017)
- “The Faster Horse” (motor1.com, December 2016)
- “Where There Is Nothing, There Is God” (Asimov’s Science Fiction, December 2016, Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award finalist)
- “The New Guys Always Work Overtime” (first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2013, Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award winner)
- “The New Phone” (with Fritz Swanson, Brain Harvest, February 2012 )
Free Horror Fiction
- NEW! “Whatever Comes After Calcutta” (PseudoPod, Issue #649, May 24, 2019—audio performance and full text at the link; first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in November 2017, and was included in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Volume Ten.)
- “The Lure of Lake 19” (Evil Girlfriend Media’s Speculate! webzine, March 2017)
- “The Slender Men” (January 2012)
- “Four Household Tales (As told by Poor Mojo’s Giant Squid)” (with Fritz Swanson and Morgan Johnson, Shimmer, 2012, Reader’s Choice award winner)
- “Exit Exam, Section III: Survival Skills, Question #7” (Pindeldyboz, November 2005)
- “Exit Exam, Section III: Survival Skills, Questions #3 thru #5” (Spork magazine, fall 2002)
Free Interactive Fiction
- “Brights” (or “In the Midst of Darkness, Light Persists”), a brief tale of uncertain moral
- “Do Me a Little Favor?” an exploration of limited options
Free Audio Fiction
- “The New Guys Always Work Overtime” (StarShipSofa podcast #312,starts around minute 27; first published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 2013, Asimov’s Science Fiction Readers’ Award winner)
- “Exit Exam, Section III: Survival Skills, Question #7” (Pseudopod podcast #141, starting around the 20-minute mark)
Free Fictional Essays
- “The Invention of the English” (Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), 2000)
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