More than a dozen of my short stories are available for purchase as
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The Day Pietro Coppino Spoke to the Mountain
Pietro Coppino is a famous old sculptor in 19th-century Italy. Putting the finishing
touches on his masterpiece, he notices disturbing a thing—the marble statue has begun to melt. Only a
desperate journey to the marble's source can save his greatest work, and perhaps his sanity as well.
The Veil Beyond the Veil
Emily Gaines is working late at a rural insurance agency when burglars surprise her.and the
night turns tragic. When she awakes in a strange city that's not quite like Manhattan, she discovers that death
is only the beginning of the greatest adventure of her life.
The Diagnostic Feast
Elven, Lynx, and Dido are sisters—of a sort. Highly evolved beings of pure energy, they come together billions of year in the future for a taste of life in the flesh, and perhaps to reconstruct what it once meant to be human.
Stalin's Candy
Faina Kankrin is one of the few women in Stalinist Georgia with a steady job. Every day she visits classrooms throughout the land, helping schoolchildren understand the true benevolence of their Great Leader. But Faina knew Stalin when they were both younger, and there's only so long she can keep telling the same old lies.
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It's little Kevin's first day of school and he misses his brothers—all 22 of them, cloned
from the selfsame cells that gave him life. Sending him off to school alone in another state is all part of the
experiment. But the scientists who created Kevin never took playground bullies into account.
Mrs. Janokowski Hits One out of the Park
As a girl, Matylda Janokowski survived the Nazi occupation of Poland and the horrors of
Auschwitz. How will she react as an old woman when angry neighbors in her Manhattan apartment building haul her
before a revolutionary tribunal?
From Our Point of View We Had Moved to the Left
It's January 2009, and the boys of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Memorial Academy Concert Choir have traveled all the way from New Hampshire to sing at the presidential inauguration. But Washington has a way of turning even the most innocent performance into something sinisterly political.
Colin and Ishmael in the Dark
Colin is a feckless medieval jailer, keeping watch over hardened criminals in the depths of the local dungeon. But when the lights go out and the tables are turned, will he survive a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the diabolical Ishmael?
Divided by Time
Donny Chavez lives an unremarkable life in Salt Lake City, where he harbors an unrequited passion for a woman halfway around the world. A chance visit to a peculiar little store sends him off on an epic journey in search of his love--but journeys have a strange tendency of changing travelers in unexpected ways.
Dance of the Yellow-Breasted Luddites
2002 Nebula Award nominee for best novelette!
Hannah Specter is Rescue Star's newest young operative, overseeing the health and welfare
of dozens of alien animal species on a distant wildlife preserve. When animals begin dying, she must unravel a
biological mystery before time runs out and a precious species goes extinct.
Rise Up, Ye Women That Are at Ease
Reggie Teagarden is having a bad day. First of all, he's had to return his engagement ring,
and he's taken a huge loss. Second, he can't find his ex-fiancee anywhere. And third—why are all those women
rushing off with suitcases in hand?
The Ice Queen
Teri Lynn has been trying to rid her life of the handsome but irresponsible Garth for
longer than she can remember. On the coldest night of the Canadian winter, Teri Lynn's fantasy alter-ego might
just accomplish what she never could manage on her own.
