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published and unpublished writings

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bibliography
published novels

Father Figure - 2003, Bookbooters [the entire text of Father Figure is now available as a free PDF download on this site. Please go here.]

  • Reissued 2015, SENTENCE Publishing, with Author's Preface and 6,000 words of deleted scenes

Kid - 2011, SENTENCE Publishing, I Smell Blood short story collection.

As Dead As Me - 2013, SENTENCE Publishing.

Ghosters - 2014, SENTENCE Publishing.

The Angry Red Planet - 2018, SENTENCE Publishing.



bibliography
published collections

Remove the Eyes - 2009, SENTENCE Publishing

After Here
The Woman in the Walls
The Machine of a Religious Man
Strangers Wear Masks of Your Face
My First Kiss
Steaks in the City
This Moment of Brilliance
Like an Animal in a Hole
Rocketship Apartment


I Smell Blood - 2011, SENTENCE Publishing

The Little Girl Who Lives in the Woods
In the Tunnels of the Agogs
Rain Turns to Snow
Visibility
When the Big One Thaws
Afoot
The Man Who Could Jump Off Roofs
Fleeing, on a Bicycle with Your Father, From the Living Dead
Kid


You Can Never Spit It All Out - 2016, SENTENCE Publishing

Dirt Land
Kebab Bob
During the Time I Was Out
She Has Maids
Imperfect Boy
They Hide in Tomatoes
Boyfriend
Nobody I Knew
Suddenly the Sun Appeared
Drown Town


Behind You - 2017, SENTENCE Publishing

Not Everything Has a Name
Men Wearing Makeup
Even the Cops Didn't Make Jokes
All Your Faces Drown in My Syringe
Nearness
Ghosts Play in Boys' Pajamas
Trying to Get Back to Nonchalant
The One Who Always Gets to Sit in a Chair
Beast
Grappling with Urine
You Dry Your Tears If They Don't Work
Pickle Juice
Zombie Betrayal
Occult Life
The Goldfish Trick
The 18
Our Island
Big Inches


Breathing Through My Nose - 2020, SENTENCE Publishing

The Job
Lam
Broken Hands
The Bad Boy
The Salt on the Steak
Career Opportunity
Prodigal
The Right Way


Our Elaborate Plans - 2020, SENTENCE Publishing

China
It Could Be Cancer
Will You Accept These Flowers From Me?
The Fear All Women Have
Do Not Pet
Hold My Hand and I'll Take You There
I Write Your Name
Born with the Deaf
The Night I Almost Died
(waiting in the hole)
She Used to Know the Names of All the Different Types of Clouds
Wishing They Were God
Confusion Requires Firetrucks
The Smell Comes Through the Paint
For Whom the Dogs Bark
The Patience of the Middle-Aged
Hoodelay
Before the Storm
Monkeys on the Beach
Peelers


The Sex Act - 2021, SENTENCE Publishing

When You Surfaced
The First Shorts of Spring
Truth Be Told
The Middle Leg
Sex on Sheets
Rattlesnake in a White Envelope
Freedom From Want
My Doll Likes to Eat
Beaten Up By Girls
The Wet Months
The Rape
Daddy's Glad Hands
The Final Fuck


You Know My Name - 2022, SENTENCE Publishing

What the Snow Brings
Blurred Like the Ghost It Was
When They Come for You, They'll Look Normal
Dogs Want to Eat You
Red Boat
The Dead Leave Small Bones
Help Me Eat My Monkey
Where Did My Face Go?
Like You
Looking Up
55 Miles to Tucson
Headless Woman
Bang, Bang, Thud
Damp
The Burden of Words
Any Ant Finds Sense
Las Vegas
How I Beat the System
The Best Thing About Her
Paige Reese Is Burning
The Yellow Fruit
About to be Kissed
Fish
Rump-a-Thump
Cat Head
Despair at McDonalds
The End of the Sentence
You Always Obey the One Who Feeds You
Underwater Sex
Nothing But This Too


These Were the Angels - 2023, SENTENCE Publishing

The Dirty Part of My Body
Little Lies Don't Count
Invisible Insects
The Blue Bugs Are Crawling on Us
Five Months Before She Committed Suicide
Talking to Toilet Paper
She Had Terrible Diarrhea
Little Girls Eat Baby Dinosaurs
Every Day Is Like the Bible
Don't Be Afraid of Orange Juice
Her Hand's Wet Success
Pudge in the Mirror
No Beer Until Sunday
Dark-Haired Girls Know How to Punch
What You Don't Know
When There Are So Many Boys Around You
What I Do for You When It Rains
After a While the Dead Stop Singing


Welcome to Me - 2024, SENTENCE Publishing

Non-Fiction/Miscellaneous


bibliography
published short fiction

When You Surfaced - 1986, Sign O' the Times, Winter '86-'87.

  • Reprinted 2021, The Sex Act, short story collection

Sex on Sheets - 1987, Sign O' the Times, Winter '87-'88.

  • Reprinted 1992, Ten Years of the Best of Sign O' the Times, anthology edited by Mark Stephen Souder.

  • Reprinted 2021, The Sex Act, short story collection

Big Inches - 1989, Space & Time, Number 75.

  • Reprinted 2001, ChiZine, April, 2001.

  • Podcast on Cast Macabre (castmacabre.org), episode 42, July 7, 2011, performed by Alasdair Stuart.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

Despair at McDonald's - 1990, Collages and Bricollages, Volume 4.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

When the Big One Thaws - 1999, Fugue Magazine, Summer.

  • Reprinted 2011, I Smell Blood short story collection.

Rump-a-Thump - 1999, ROADWORKS, Number 9.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

The Bear - 2000, Redsine, May.

Visibility - 2001, ROADWORKS, Number 11.

  • Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 15th Edition.

  • Reprinted 2006, Revelation, Volume 3, Number 3.

  • Reprinted 2006, Revelation III, anthology edited by Brian A. Dixon.

  • Reprinted 2011, I Smell Blood short story collection.

Fish - 2003, ROADWORKS, Number 16.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

This Moment of Brilliance - 2004, Lullaby Hearse, Number 5.

  • Reprinted 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

Cat Head - 2004, Lunatic Chameleon, July.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

The Woman in the Walls - 2005, Darkness Rising 2005, anthology edited by L.H. Maynard, M.P.N. Sims.

  • Reprinted 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

The Machine of a Religious Man - 2005, Midnight Street, Issue 4.

  • Reprinted 2006, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, anthology edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant, 19th edition.

  • Reprinted 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

Las Vegas - 2005, Lullaby Hearse, Number 6.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Pushing Down the Tombstones - 2005, Albedo One, Issue 30.

The Hole and the Spike - 2005, Thirteen, Volume 2, Issue 8.

The Little Girl Who Lives in the Woods - 2006, Read By Dawn, anthology edited by Ramsey Campbell.

  • Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 20th Edition.

  • Reprinted 2011, I Smell Blood short story collection.

  • Podcast on Cast Macabre (castmacabre.org), episode 47, October 31, 2015, performed by Rish Outfield.

The Burden of Words - 2006, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 2.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Fleeing, on a Bicycle with Your Father, from the Living Dead - 2006, Midnight Street, Issue 7.

  • Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, 20th Edition.

  • Reprinted 2009, The World is Dead, anthology edited by Kim Paffenroth.

  • Honorable Mention, The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2.

  • Reprinted 2011, I Smell Blood short story collection.

The Rape - 2006, Sein und Werden, Volume 1, Number 2.

  • Reprinted 2021, The Sex Act, short story collection

Truth Be Told - 2007, Sein und Werden, Volume 1, Number 4.

  • Reprinted 2021, The Sex Act, short story collection

Three Prose Poems (I Fucked His Girlfriend While He Watched, In Panama We Lived In An Apartment, He No Longer Recognized His Face) - 2007, Sein und Werden, Volume 2, Number 1.

Red Boat - 2008, Dark Distortions, anthology edited by Molly Feese.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Rocketship Apartment - 2008, Midnight Street, Issue 11.

  • Reprinted 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

Damp - 2008, Grasslimb, Volume 6, Number 2.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Strangers Wear Masks of Your Face - 2008, Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, Number 25.

  • Reprinted 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

Grappling with Urine - 2008, Chimeraworld Number 5, anthology edited by Mike Philbin.

  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

After Here - 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

  • Reprinted 2014, Unconventional Fantasy: A Celebration of Forty Years of the World Fantasy Convention (Volume 3), anthology edited by Sapienza, Ward, Campbell and Lubell.

My First Kiss - 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

  • Honorable Mention, The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2.

Steaks in the City - 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

Like an Animal in a Hole - 2009, Remove the Eyes, short story collection.

  • Honorable Mention, The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 2.

In the Tunnels of the Agogs - 2009, Dark Horizons, Issue 55.

  • Honorable Mention, The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3.

  • Reprinted 2011, I Smell Blood short story collection.

Nobody I Knew - 2009, Midnight Street, Issue 13.

  • Reprinted 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

Rain Turns to Snow - 2010, Dark Horizons, Issue 56.

  • Honorable Mention, The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3.

  • Reprinted 2011, I Smell Blood short story collection.

Hinky - 2010, Title Goes Here, Issue 5.

Suddenly the Sun Appeared - 2010, Midnight Street Issue 14.

  • Reprinted 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

The Wet Months - 2010, Collective Fallout Volume 3 Number 1.

  • Reprinted 2021, The Sex Act, short story collection

Afoot - 2011, I Smell Blood short story collection.

The Man Who Could Jump Off Roofs - 2011, I Smell Blood short story collection.

A Woman Made of Milk - 2011, Kindle edition

  • Reprinted 2014, Ghosters.

The Bad Boy - 2011, Serial Killers, anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew.

  • Reprinted 2020, Breathing Through My Nose, story collection.

Dogs Want to Eat You - 2011, ChiZine, Volume 47, Week 5.

  • Reprinted 2013, Horror Society Stories, Volume One edited by Michael DeFellipo.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

They Hide in Tomatoes - 2011, Midnight Street, Number 16.

  • Reprinted 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

Tiny Doorways - 2011, Cover of Darkness, September 2011, anthology edited by Tyree Campbell and Herika R. Raymer.

  • Reprinted 2014, Ghosters.

Elephants on the Moon - 2012, Contemporary Literary Review: India, print issue Number 1.

Our Island - 2012, Where Are We Going?, anthology edited by Allen Ashley.

  • 2013, nominated for Best Story of 2012 by the British Fantasy Society.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

About to be Kissed - 2012, Sein und Werden, July 2012 issue.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Daddy's Glad Hands - 2012, Writings on the Wall, anthology edited by D.G. Sutter and Anthony Laquerre.

  • Reprinted 2021, The Sex Act, short story collection

We Don't Keep in Touch Anymore - 2012, Shadows & Tall Trees, Autumn 2012 Issue 4.

  • Reprinted 2014, Ghosters.

The One Who Always Gets to Sit in a Chair - 2013, Postscripts to Darkness 3, anthology edited by Sean Moreland and Aalya Ahmad.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror Number 6.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

She Has Maids - 2013, Hellfire Crossroads, Volume 1.

  • Reprinted 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

The Yellow Fruit - 2013, Astrologica, anthology edited by Allen Ashley.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror Number 6.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

All Your Faces Drown in My Syringe - 2013, Black Static, Issue 37.

  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

Kebab Bob - 2014, Black Static, Issue 39

  • Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume 7.
  • Reprinted 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

The Space Between (with Ray Cluey) - 2014, Shadows & Tall Trees 2014, anthology edited by Michael Kelly.

  • Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume 7.

The Middle Leg - 2014, Of Devils & Deviants, anthology edited by Adam Millard and Zoe-Ray Millard.

  • Reprinted 2021, The Sex Act, short story collection

When They Come For You, They'll Look Normal - 2014, Journeys into Darkness, anthology edited by Trevor Denyer.

  • Recommended, Best Horror of the Year Volume 7.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Ghosts Play in Boys' Pajamas - 2014, Black Static, Issue 41.

  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

Half-Haunted House - 2014, Ghosters.

Green with Demon - 2014, Ghosters.

Warfarin - 2014, Ghosters.

This Old Haunted House - 2014, Ghosters.

If He Had Wings - 2014, Ghosters.

Flesh Ghost - 2014, Ghosters.

Full-Haunted House - 2014, Ghosters.

Some Sort of Eden (with Allen Ashley) - 2014, HELLFIRE CROSSROADS, Volume 4.

Drown Town - 2014, Black Static Issue 43

  • Reprinted 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

Bang, Bang, Thud - 2015, Sensorama, anthology edited by Allen Ashley.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Men Wearing Makeup - 2015, Black Static, Issue 46.

  • 2016, reprinted, in French translation by Christophe Cuq, in Tenebres 2016, anthology edited by Benoit Domis.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 8.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

The 18 - 2015, Darkest Minds, anthology edited by Ross Warren and Anthony Watson.

  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

Even the Cops Didn't Make Jokes (originally published as "Learning Not to Smile") - 2015, Nightscript, Volume 1, anthology edited by C.M. Muller.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 8.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

You Dry Your Tears If They Don't Work - 2015, Creeping Crawlers, anthology edited by Allen Ashley.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 8.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

Dirt Land - 2015, Black Static, Issue 49.

  • 2016, nominated for Best Story of 2015 by the British Fantasy Society.
  • Reprinted 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

Trying to Get Back to Nonchalant - 2016, Black Static, Issue 52.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

Not Everything Has a Name - 2016, Black Static, Issue 54.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

55 Miles to Tucson - 2016, Ghost Highways, anthology edited by Trevor Denyer

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Hoodelay - 2016, Ghost Highways, anthology edited by Trevor Denyer

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9.

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

Nearness - 2016, Nightscript Volume II, anthology edited by C.M.Muller

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9.
  • Reprinted 2017, Behind You story collection.

During the Time I Was Out - 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

Boyfriend - 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

Imperfect Boy - 2016, You Can Never Spit It All Out novelette collection.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 9.

Will You Accept These Flowers From Me? - 2017, Black Static, Issue 57

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

Before the Storm - 2017, Hellfire Crossroads 6

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

Beast - 2017, Behind You, story collection.

Pickle Juice - 2017, Behind You, story collection.

Zombie Betrayal - 2017, Behind You, story collection.

Occult Life - 2017, Behind You, story collection.

The Goldfish Trick - 2017, Behind You, story collection.

Born with the Deaf - 2017, Midnight Street, September, 2017.

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

Hold My Hand and I'll Take You There - 2017, Imposter Syndrome, anthology edited by James Everington and Dan Howarth.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 10.

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

The Pond Behind the Trailer - 2017, Road Kill, Volume 2, ed. E.R. Bills and Bret McCormick.

For Whom the Dogs Bark - 2017, Black Static, Issue 61.

  • Honorable Mention, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 10.

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

How I Beat the System - 2018, Night Light, ed. Trevor Denyer.

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Lam - 2018, Crimewave, Issue 13.

  • Recommended, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 11.
  • Reprinted, 2020, Breathing Through My Nose, story collection.

Peelers - 2018, The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors, ed. Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards

  • Recommended, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 11.

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

Monkeys on the Beach - 2018, Tales from the Shadow Booth, ed. Dan Coxon.

  • Reprinted, Best Horror of the Year, Volume 11.

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

  • Podcast 2022 by Chilling Tales.

It Could Be Cancer - 2018, Uncertainties Vol III, ed. Lynda E. Rucker

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

China - 2018, Black Static, Issue 66.

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

Do Not Pet - 2019, Black Static, Issue 67

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

I Write Your Name - 2019, Black Static, Issue 70

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

The Dead Leave Small Bones - 2019, Cemetery Dance, Issue 77

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

The Fear All Women Have - 2019, Road Kill, Volume 4, ed. Bret McCormick

  • Reprinted 2020, Our Elaborate Plans story collection.

My Doll Likes to Eat - 2019, Obliquator Voluptas, ed. not named

  • Reprinted 2021, The Sex Act, short story collection

The Job - 2020, Breathing Through My Nose, story collection

Broken Hands - 2020, Breathing Through My Nose, story collection

The Salt on the Steak - 2020, Breathing Through My Nose, story collection

Career Opportunity - 2020, Breathing Through My Nose, story collection

Prodigal - 2020, Breathing Through My Nose, story collection

The Right Way - 2020, Breathing Through My Nose, story collection

Help Me Eat My Monkey - 2020, Strange Days, ed. Trevor Denyer

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

The Night I Almost Died - 2020, Our Elaborate Plans, story collection

(waiting in the hole) - 2020, Our Elaborate Plans, story collection

She Used to Know the Names of All the Different Types of Clouds - 2020,Our Elaborate Plans, story collection

Wishing They Were God - 2020, Our Elaborate Plans, story collection

Confusion Requires Firetrucks - 2020, Our Elaborate Plans, story collection

The Smell Comes Through the Paint - 2020, Our Elaborate Plans, story collection

The Patience of the Middle-Aged - 2020, Our Elaborate Plans, story collection

The Best Thing About Her - 2020, Nightscript 6, ed. CM Muller

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Headless Woman - 2020, Sein und Werden Winter 2020, ed. Rachel Kendall

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Where Did My Face Go? - 2021, Roads Less Travelled Volume 1, ed. Trevor Denyer

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

Looking Up - 2021, Reed Magazine, Issue 154

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

What the Snow Brings - 2021, The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3, ed. Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards

  • Reprinted 2022, You Know My Name, short story collection

The First Shorts of Spring - 2021, The Sex Act, story collection

Rattlesnake in a White Envelope - 2021, The Sex Act, story collection

Freedom From Want - 2021, The Sex Act, story collection

Beaten Up By Girls - 2021, The Sex Act, story collection

The Final Fuck - 2021, The Sex Act, story collection

She Had Terrible Diarrhea - 2022, pamplemousse

  • Reprinted 2023, These Were the Angels, short story collection

Blurred Like the Ghost It Was - 2022, You Know My Name, story collection

Like You - 2022, You Know My Name, story collection

Any Ant Finds Sense - 2022, You Know My Name, story collection

Paige Reese Is Burning - 2022, You Know My Name, story collection

The End of the Sentence - 2022, You Know My Name, story collection

You Always Obey the One Who Feeds You - 2022, You Know My Name, story collection

Underwater Sex - 2022, You Know My Name, story collection

Nothing But This Too - 2022, You Know My Name, story collection

Don't Be Afraid of Orange Juice - 2022, Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #72

Drive North - 2023, Two Thirds North

The Dirty Part of My Body - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Little Lies Don't Count - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Invisible Insects - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

The Blue Bugs Are Crawling on Us - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Five Months Before She Committed Suicide - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Talking to Toilet Paper - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Little Girls Eat Baby Dinosaurs - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Every Day Is Like the Bible - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Her Hand's Wet Success - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Pudge in the Mirror - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

No Beer Until Sunday - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

Dark-Haired Girls Know How to Punch - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

What You Don't Know - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

When There Are So Many Boys Around You - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

What I Do for You When It Rains - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

After a While the Dead Stop Singing - 2023, These Were the Angels short story collection

The Empty Space on a Shelf - 2024, Roads Less Travelled #1




bibliography
anthology appearances

Sex on Sheets - 1992, Ten Years of the Best of Sign O' the Times, anthology edited by Mark Stephen Souder.

The Woman in the Walls - 2005, Darkness Rising 2005, anthology edited by L.H. Maynard, M.P.N. Sims.

Visibility - 2006, Revelation III, anthology edited by Brian A. Dixon.

The Machine of a Religious Man - 2006, Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, anthology edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant.

The Little Girl Who Lives in the Woods - 2006, Read By Dawn, anthology edited by Ramsey Campbell.

Red Boat - 2008, Dark Distortions, anthology edited by Molly Feese.

Grappling with Urine - 2008, Chimeraworld Number 5, anthology edited by Mike Philbin.

Fleeing, On a Bicycle with Your Father, from the Living Dead - 2009, The World is Dead, anthology edited by Kim Paffenroth.

The Bad Boy - 2011, Serial Killers, anthology edited by Chris Bartholomew.

Tiny Doorways - 2011, Cover of Darkness, September 2011, anthology edited by Tyree Campbell and Herika R. Raymer.

Our Island - 2012, Where Are We Going?, anthology edited by Allen Ashley.

Daddy's Glad Hands - 2012, Writings on the Wall, anthology edited by D.G. Sutter and Anthony Laquerre.

The One Who Always Gets to Sit in a Chair - 2013, Postscripts to Darkness 3, anthology edited by Sean Moreland and Aalya Ahmad.

The Yellow Fruit - 2013, Astrologica, anthology edited by Allen Ashley.

Dogs Want to Eat You - 2013, Horror Society Stories, Volume One anthology edited by Michael DeFellipo.

The Space Between (with Ray Cluey) - 2014, Shadows & Tall Trees 2014 anthology edited by Michael Kelly.

The Middle Leg - 2014, Of Devils & Deviants, anthology edited by Adam Millard and Zoe-Ray Millard.

When They Come For You, They'll Look Normal - 2014, Journeys into Darkness, anthology edited by Trevor Denyer.

After Here - 2014, Unconventional Fantasy: A Celebration of Forty Years of the World Fantasy Convention (Volume 3), anthology edited by Sapienza, Ward, Campbell and Lubell.

Bang, Bang, Thud - 2015, Sensorama, anthology edited by Allen Ashley.

The 18 - 2015, Darkest Minds, anthology edited by Ross Warren and Anthony Watson.

Even the Cops Didn't Make Jokes (originally published as "Learning Not to Smile") - 2015, Nightscript, Volume 1, anthology edited by C.M. Muller.

You Dry Your Tears If They Don't Work - 2015, Creeping Crawlers, anthology edited by Allen Ashley.

Men Wearing Makeup - 2016, in French translation by Christophe Cuq, in Tenebres 2016, anthology edited by Benoit Domis.

55 Miles to Tucson - 2016, Ghost Highways, anthology edited by Trevor Denyer.

Hoodelay - 2016, Ghost Highways, anthology edited by Trevor Denyer.

Nearness - 2016, Nightscript Volume II, anthology edited by C.M. Muller.

Hold My Hand and I’ll Take You There – 2017, Imposter Syndrome, anthology edited by James Everington and Dan Howarth

The Pond Behind the Trailer - 2017, Road Kill, Volume 2, anthology edited by E.R. Bills and Bret McCormick.

How I Beat the System - 2018, Night Light, ed. Trevor Denyer.

Peelers - 2018, The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors, ed. Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards

Monkeys on the Beach - 2018, Tales from the Shadow Booth, ed. Dan Coxon

It Could Be Cancer - 2018, Uncertainties Vol III, ed. Lynda E. Rucker

Monkeys on the Beach - 2019, The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven, anthology edited by Ellen Datlow

The Fear All Women Have - 2019, Road Kill, Volume 4, ed. Bret McCormick

My Doll Likes to Eat - 2019, Obliquator Voluptas, ed. not named

Help Me Eat My Monkey - 2020, Strange Days, ed. Trevor Denyer

The Best Thing About Her - 2020, Nightscript 6, ed. CM Muller

Where Did My Face Go? - 2021, Roads Less Travelled Volume 1, ed. Trevor Denyer

What the Snow Brings - 2021, The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3, ed. Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards


bibliography
black static column: into the woods

The Perishability of Metaphors - January-February 2017

Misunderstanding Ears - March-April 2017

New World, Searching - May-June 2017

Six Words - July-August 2017

I'm Someone Else - September-October 2017

Down on Paper - November-December 2017

Disappointing George News - March-April 2018

This Is the Part Where You Start to Say Goodbye - May-June 2018

All Reassurances Can Be Peeled Away - July-August 2018

What Do You Think He Saw - September-October 2018

A Mask for the Bones Beneath - November-December 2018

As Comfortable As a Pair of Pajamas - January, February 2019

Both Eyes Blinking Back - March, April 2019

Little Wet Rocketship - May, June 2019

I'll Be Following You - July, August 2019

Abbot and Costello Meet the Dentist - September-October 2019

Be Prepared - November, December 2019

Unfair Apocalypse - January, February 2020

DISAPPOINTED!!! - March, April 2020

Great Catch! - May, June 2020

A Man Slips on a Banana Peel - September, October 2020

Into the Trees by Trake Dylan - November, December 2020

Boe Uifsf Bsf Op Tvcujumft - 80/81 2021


bibliography
other

Film Review - 1980, The Los Angeles Times Calendar Magazine, June 29 [fake review of a non-existent film]

Deep Shrimp - 1999, Conjuring Dark Delicacies, anthology edited by "Gomez" and "Morticia" [essay/recipe]

God - 2004, Songs of Innocence (And Experience), Issue 5 [essay]

Sein und Werden - 2007 - Various online venues, such as Mad Hatter's Review [review of third print issue of Sein und Werden]

Pornography and Martial Arts Movies - 2007, Sein und Werden, online Issue 12 [essay]

Like Landing a Man on the Moon - 2017, Aging: An Apprenticeship, edited by Nan Narboe [essay on turning fifty]


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dramatizations

Big Inches - podcast on Cast Macabre (castmacabre.org), episode 42, July 7, 2011, performed by Alasdair Stuart.

The Little Girl Who Lives in the Woods - podcast on Cast Macabre (castmacabre.org), episode 47, October 31, 2015, performed by Rish Outfield.

Monkeys on the Beach - podcast on Chilling Tales Season 6, Episode 4, April 7, 2022, performed by Jason Hill.

Not Everything Has a Name - Podcast on Chilling Tales Season 6, Episode 24, August 25, 2022, performed by Erik Peabody.


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unpublished novels

Always Again


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unpublished short fiction

Stopping for Lunch on the Way to Heaven (24,500)

Permission to Come On Board (6,600)

My Vegetarian Girlfriend Finally Gets to Ride Toby the Talking Elephant (9,600)

State of Emergency (8,000)

The Only Magic Left in the World - co-written with Steven Dines (10,500)

Thursday (4,500)

Same Thing for Breakfast (7,800)

We Who Have Sacrificed So Much (3,700)

Calamities (7,000)

The House of Bodily Fluids (13,000)

I Think the One on the Left Just Moved (9,000)

Welcome to the World of Men and Women (11,400)

He Put Her Steam First (10,300)

Imperfect World (10,850)

This World Doesn't Like You (6,300)

Heavier Than Hail (5,450)

You Have to Bend Like a Fish (3,050)

Stuffed Dogs Know Secrets (3,800)

Travel Where You Take It Off (5,100)

Here Comes the Blood (4,200)

All the Holes in the Years (4,845)

Like a Black Man in a Horror Movie (5,000)

Invasion of the Low-Budget Aliens (2,750)

Jim Pitt Goes Shopping (4,850)

That Which Does Not Kill Us (6,900)

Don't Make Me Say It Out Loud (7,850)

Brushing Dirt and Dead Leaves Over What You've Done (5,000)

The Underneath (3,300)

Sometimes (9,500)

Someone Was Optimistic Once (5,700)

Hot Dogs Stare at You (10,350)

No Paintings of People (8,300)

Unhaunted House (13,795)

All The Black and White Cartoon Heads Have Such Huge Eyes (7,300)

Every Bite Is Different (9,250)

I Am an Asterisk (7,800)

Thumb (16,150)

Don't Think About the Worm (4,400)

Hand Up Inside You (12,100)

Every Onion Is Different (10,900)

Back Down to the Bright L.A. Lights (7,500)

As We All Do (7,800)

Even Goldfish Have Birthdays (4,900)

This Temporary Odor (8,900)

Ambulances Hide Behind Trees (6,800)

I Don't Want to Buy a Donkey (7,400)

When You Were Here (3,750)

Yikes! I Have Cancer!(6,800)



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published plays

Duck Eggs - Welcome to Me, 2024