Fiction
"Brief Interviews With Therianthropes," co-written with Alec Austin. Daily SF, forthcoming.
"Calibrated Allies," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2012.
"Uncle Flower's Homecoming Waltz," Tor.com, February 1, 2012.
"On the Acquisition of Phoenix Eggs (Variant)," Lightspeed, January 2012.
"Modification or Mutation: 8 Ways a Parent Can Be Sure," Daily SF, September 7, 2011.
"The Witch's Second," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, August 25, 2011.
"Blood Man Calls the Whale," Andromeda Spaceways, Issue 53, forthcoming.
"Tusk and Skin," Bewere the Night, April 2011.
"Entanglement," Nature, 18 March 2011.
"The Witch's Second Daughter," Andromeda Spaceways, Issue 49; podcast version from PodCastle on October 24, 2011.
"Carter Hall and the Motley Lions," On Spec, forthcoming 2012.
"Some of Them Closer," Analog, Jan/Feb 2011; reprint forthcoming in Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction 2012.
"The Six Skills of Madame Lumiere," Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #46, July 2010. Reprint forthcoming in e-book anthology, Best of BCS Year 2.
"Unintended Consequences," DayBreak Magazine/Shine anthology promotional, forthcoming.
"The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy," Clarkesworld, December 2009.
"Quality Control," Nature, 1 October 2009.
"Five Ways to Ruin a First Date," Not One Of Us, October 2009.
"Why I Live in the Silver Mine," Baen's Universe, August 2009.
"Erasing the Map," Futurismic, February 2009.
"Kay's Box," Shimmer, Issue 11.
"The Calculus Plague," Analog, Jul/Aug 2009. Reprint in David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best SF 15, May 2010.
"Gilding the Dandelion," Aberrant Dreams, April 2009.
"In the Velvet Swamp," Coyote Wild, forthcoming.
"Carter Hall Judges the Lines," On Spec, Winter 2009.
"Swimming Back from Hell by Moonlight," Aeon, Issue 13 (February 2008).
"Search Strings," Nature Physics (Futures department), February 2008.
"Loki's Net," Baen's Universe, December 2008.
"Making Alex Frey," Baen's Universe, June 2008.
"Väinämöinen and the Singing Fish," Abyss and Apex, Issue 27 (July 2008), reprint from PodCastle in Episode 113 (July 14, 2010).
"Alloy," Nature (Futures department), 26 September 2007, podcast version from Escape Pod on December 31, 2009.
"Little Green Cure," free story! in honor of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.
"Seven a.m. Pacific Time", free story! in honor of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.
"Pirates by Adeline Thromb Age 8," Shimmer, October 2007.
"Scribing a Line," Fictitious Force, Issue #4.
"Water, Flesh, and Stone," Aberrant Dreams, January 2008.
"Rest Stop," Andromeda Spaceways, Issue #28.
"Carter Hall Sweeps a Path," On Spec, Spring 2008 (#72 vol 20 no 1).
"A Six-Letter Word for Mom," Fictitious Force, Issue #4.
"Moth Kin," Between Kisses, October 2006.
"Michael Banks, Home from the War," Aeon, November 2006 (Issue 9).
"Singing Them Back," Baen's Universe, Issue 4.
"Silent Teraphim," Aberrant Dreams, Issue #8 (Summer 2006).
"The Flask of Today," Story Station, December 2005.
"The Opposite of Pomegranates," Baen's Universe, Issue 1, reprinted in The Best of Jim Baen's Universe, 2006.
"Heart-Shaped Hole," Challenging Destiny, May 2006 (Issue 22).
"Things We Sell to Tourists," Aeon, Issue 6 (February 2006).
"The Beast's Apprentice," Andromeda Spaceways, Issue 24, reprint in ASIM Best of Fantasy Volume 2 forthcoming.
"Even Without Deceit," Fictitious Force, Issue #2 (May 2006).
"Five Brothers Underground," Kenoma, June 2005.
"Carter Hall Recovers the Puck," On Spec, Spring 2006 (Vol. 18 No. 1 #64).
"Another Hollywood Miracle", Fortean Bureau, November 2004.
"Anna's Implants," Challenging Destiny, November 2004 (Issue 19).
"Big Sister," Story Station, summer 2004.
"From the Hip Flask," SDO Fantasy, July to September 2004.
"She Transcends," Raven Electrick, November 2004.
"Under the Masks," Monthly Short Stories, October 2004.
"Take Back the Night," Kenoma, April 2004.
"Endgene," Quantum Muse, March 2004.
"An Attack of Conscience," Neo-Opsis, Issue 3.
"Trail's End," Alien Skin, March 2004.
"Speed Dating," EOTU E-Zine, February 2004.
"Fair Use," Fables, Spring 2004.
"Seven Minutes In Heaven," Fortean Bureau, March 2004.
"Bestseller," Continuum SF, December 2003.
"Shylock's Pound," Penumbric, October 2004.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors," Zahir, February 2004.
"Taste of Blood and Bubble-Gum," Alien Skin, November 2003.
"The Grumpiest Place on Earth," Flash Me Magazine (of flash fiction, not indecent exposure), 31 July 2003.
"MacArthur Station," Fortean Bureau, September 2003.
"Dark Thread," Challenging Destiny, Issue 17.
"Wishing on Airplanes," Oceans of the Mind, Summer 2003.
"Drops of Yesterday," SF-F.Org, April 2003.
"Prototype," Far Sector SFFH, May 2003. (I do get royalties from the sales of this e-book, in case you were wondering.)
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Boy (With Aliens)," Would That It Were, January 2003. Cowritten with Tim Cooper (Timprov!).
"Glass Wind," Twin Cities Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, January 2003.
"Goats' Gold," Spellbound, Spring 2003.
"Making It Home," This Way Up, April 2003.
"Natural Limitations," Ideomancer, April 2003. Translated into Spanish at Breves no tan breves. I don't speak Spanish, so not only did I not do the translation, I have no idea how it goes.
"Bright Red -- Aim Here," Short Stuff, August/September 2002. This is a quirky short-short about aliens and Nebraska football, and the check, contract, and contributor's copy all arrived together, out of the blue. Um, cool.
"Instead of Glass Slippers," Rogue Worlds, July 2002.
"Grandma Disappears," Spellbound, Spring 2002
"Cassie's Deal," Paradox12, January 31, 2002
"Irena's Roses," Analog, June 2002. Finnish translation in Spin in 2009.
"The Handmade's Tale," Future Orbits, December 2001. This story received an Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois' 19th Annual Year's Best SF collection. Reprint from Peridot Books appeared September 1, 2003.
"Butterhead," originally published in Speculon, June 2001; reprinted in Twin Cities Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, September 31, 2002.
"Cornflake Girl," Speculon, August 2000.
"In the Gardens and the Graves," www.asimovs.com (Asimov Award winner--now called Dell Magazines Award)
Nonfiction
"Fresh-Baked Legacy," Skirt! magazine, November 2003.
"Near Bliss" (originally called "Seeing the Future"), Skirt! magazine, June 2003.
The Changing Face of America: The Chinese Americans, Mason Crest Publishers, forthcoming.
"A Perfect Fit" (originally entitled "Underoos Generation"), Skirt! magazine, July 2002.
We Came To America: The Jewish Americans, Mason Crest Publishers, March 2002
We Came To America: The Chinese Americans, Mason Crest Publishers, March 2002
An interview with Garth Nix, Speculon, February 2002.
"Drawing the Line: What Makes YA Fiction?", Speculon, February 2002.
A review of Terry Pratchett's The Last Hero, Speculon, February 2002.
A review of Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk, Speculon, January 2002.
Bose-Einstein Condensates: an article for the lay person on Strange Horizons in December of 2001.
A review of Spider Robinson's The Free Lunch, Speculon, November 2001.
"Diversity, Hold the Sugar," Skirt! magazine, November 2001.
A review of Iain M. Banks' Look to Windward, Speculon, September 2001.
A review of Connie Willis' Passage, Speculon, June 2001.
"Camp Sparta," (originally entitled "Mom Vs. Camp Sparta") Skirt! magazine, June 2001.
"The Suburbs of Amber", Strange Horizons, May 2001.
A review of Terry Pratchett's The Thief of Time, Speculon, May 2001.
"What the Kelk is that Dwarf-Lover Doing?: Building a Better World Through Offensive Language," Phantastes, Spring 2001.
A review of Tim Powers' Declare, Speculon, March 2001.
A review of Orson Scott Card's Shadow of the Hegemon, Speculon, January 2001.
A guest editorial about subversion in children's lit, Speculon, November 2000.
A review of Callahan's Key, Zealot, September 2000.