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Unioverse: Stories of the Reconvergence
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Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2021 Edition
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“Still You Linger, Like Soot in the Air”
The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Six
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Science Fiction World
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Lightspeed Magazine
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Lightspeed Magazine - Issue 121
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“Very Surely Do I Not Dream”
Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena
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“Your Future is Pending”
Clarkesworld Magazine #158
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Queen of Static
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“Truth is Like the Sun”
Lightspeed Magazine 108
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“The Last Novelist (or a Dead Lizard in the Yard)”
2019 Nebula Awards Showcase
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“White Roses in Their Eyes”
Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People
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“Love Engine Optimization”
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2018 Edition
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume 3
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“The Walk to Distant Suns”
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Shades Within Us
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“Will You Meet Me There, Out Beyond the Bend?”
Nightmare Magazine 63
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Mad Hatters and March Hares
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Lightspeed Magazine 85
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Cyber World
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2016
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“Demon in Aisle 6”
Nightmare Magazine 38
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Interzone #221
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Clarkesworld Magazine #42
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The People of the Book
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Naked City
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After
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Lightspeed Magazine and io9.com
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“The History Within Us”
Clarkesworld Year Four
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“The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye”
Clarkesworld Magazine #92
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“Cameron Rhyder’s Legs”
Clarkesworld Magazine #98
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Nebula Awards Showcase 2015
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Storyological on “Demon in Aisle 6”

nightmare-nov-2015Storyological, a new podcast series, discusses my story “Demon in Aisle 6,” which was published in November in Nightmare Magazine and also Alyssa Wong‘s Nebula Award-nominated “Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers” (also from Nightmare).

They

“Demon in Aisle 6” is a Finalist for the Sippy Awards

Sippy_Face4My story “Demon in Aisle 6” (published in Nightmare Magazine) was a finalist for the Sippy Awards. The winner going to “When Your Child Strays From God” by Sam J. Miller. Of my story, they

What Makes the Perfect Short Story?

nightmare-nov-2015SFSignal has some love for “Demon in Aisle 6,” my story just out in Nightmare Magazine​ as part of their Mind Meld series, this one on What Makes the Perfect Short Story?

“One of my very favorite stories

Quick Sip Reviews “Demon in Aisle 6”

This morning I received this nice review of “Demon in Aisle 6” from Charles Payseur at Quick Sip Reviews:

“Stories like this wreck me. Just absolutely wreck me. There is an aching beauty and tragedy to this story

“Demon in Aisle 6” Out Today in Nightmare

nightmare-nov-2015My story, “Demon in Aisle 6,” is out today in Nightmare Magazine. It’s about a gay romance in an unwelcoming high school, plus demons. Here’s the opener:

I first saw the demon the Sunday after you died. It was

“Demon in Aisle 6” in Nightmare Magazine

nightmare-nov-2015This month my story “Demon in Aisle 6” appears in Nightmare Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams. You can purchase the ebook of the issue now, or you can wait until November 18th to read this story for …

“Demon in Aisle 6”

I’m happy to announce I’ve sold a new story, “Demon in Aisle 6,” to Nightmare Magazine. The story is about a high school kid who begins seeing a demon in the aisle of a mega mart where he …

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