Fiction

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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