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Podcasts and Audio Recordings

"Impossible Dreams" at Escape Pod.

"Life in Stone" at Escape Pod.

"Robots and Falling Hearts", with Greg van Eekhout, at Escape Pod.

"Lachrymose and the Golden Egg" at Escape Pod.

"The Third-Quarter King" at The Coode Street Podcast.

"Making Monsters" (poem) at Escape Pod.

Solo Stories:

"Artifice & Intelligence" in Strange Horizons, August 2007.

"Old Ones", August 2006.

"Jubilee" in The Journal of Mythic Arts, Winter 2006.

"Bluebeard and the White Buffalo: A Rangergirl Yarn", October 2005.

"Eros and Thanatos" in Ultraverse, November 2004.

"Behemoth Brewing & Distribution Co." in Fortean Bureau, February 2004.

"Living with the Harpy" in Strange Horizons, October 2003.

"Robin of Wonderland Wood" in Ideomancer, July 2003.

"The Sea a Deeper Black" in Abyss & Apex, July 2003.

"Melancholy Shore" in Songs for Dead Singers, August 2002.

"Little Gods" in Strange Horizons, February 2002.

  • Nominated for the 2003 Nebula Award.
  • First-place winner of the Strange Horizons 2002 Reader's Choice Awards for Fiction.
  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction: 19th Annual Collection.
  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 16th Annual Collection.
  • Reprinted in The Midwest Literary Underground
  • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two.

"Annabelle's Alphabet" in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, October 2001.

  • reprinted in Best of the Rest 3, July 2002.
  • reprinted in in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 15th Annual Collection, July 2002.
  • reprinted in in Ideomancer, August 2003.

"Dr. Nefarious and the Lazarus Project" in Speculon, May 2001.

"The Fallen and the Muse of the Street" in Strange Horizons, December 2000.

Collaborations:

"Blind Date" (with Nick Mamatas) in Lenox Avenue, March 2005.

"The Ever After Book Shoppe" (with Heather Shaw) in Slow Trains, June 2002.

Poetry

"Tlaltecuhtli" in Strange Horizons, April 2005.

"Soul Searching" in Strange Horizons, July 2004.

"Making Monsters" in Strange Horizons, July 2004.

"Angel Bites" in Strange Horizons, October 2003.

"Ammut in Her Later Years" in Strange Horizons, July 2003.

"Ts'its'tsi'nako" in Strange Horizons, May 2003.

"Nidhigg" in Strange Horizons, April 2003.

"Wolfways" in Strange Horizons, February 2003.

"Carcinodjinn" in Strange Horizons, January 2003.

"Engulfer" in Strange Horizons, October 2002.

  • Recipient of an honorable mention in the Strange Horizons 2002 Reader's Choice Awards for Poetry.
  • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two.

"Plate Spinning" in Strange Horizons, October 2002.

"Laughing Blood" in Strange Horizons, April 22, 2002.

"Poor Bahamut" in Strange Horizons, April 15, 2002.

  • Nominated for the 2003 Rhysling award.

Muse Trap, Strange Horizons, February 2002.

  • First-place winner of the Strange Horizons 2002 Reader's Choice Awards for Poetry.
  • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year Two.

"Orpheus Among the Cabbages" in Strange Horizons, October 2001.

"Mask" in Strange Horizons, June 2001.

  • Recipient of an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: 15th Annual Collection

"The God of the Crossroads" in Strange Horizons, March 2001.

  • Reprinted in Strange Horizons: Best of Year One.

"Ghost" in Electric Wine, Summer 2000.

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