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Free Horror Fiction

“This Place is Best Shunned” (Tor.com., July 27, 2022)
“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 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)

“Expiration Date” (Arbor Teas Summer Reading Series, Summer 2017)
“The Faster Horse” (motor1.com, December 2016)
“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 )

“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

“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)
“The Slender Men” (Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine podcast #209, September 28, 2019)