Short Fiction
Published
- "The Captivity of Princess Sallya," Alien Skin, October/November 2005.
Monstoro has intractable acne, his voice squeaks, and his black cape is so last year! And he tells fart jokes all the time. He took me to his horrid, nasty castle. It's cold, it's damp, and the plumbing doesn't work. Ew!
I hope someone rescues me soon.
- "Corporate Oversight," The Fifth Di..., December 2006.
Back on Earth Amy Roberts had seemed okay, like someone Marsha Morales could stand to be trapped with in a 750 square foot spacecraft with for two and a half years. She'd liked Amy.
Things change.
- "Victual-Seeking Varmints from Outer Space," Alien Skin, May 2004.
"A flying saucer just landed on the Winnebago," Betty Ann said.
Forthcoming
- "The Grandfather Paradox," to appear in Electric Velocipede.
Ann stuffed her blood-spattered clothes into the next door apartment complex's dumpster. He wasn't dead, but it was harder to get a knife through someone's chest than she'd expected. Maybe he'd bleed to death before someone found him. She didn't care either way. She was a juvenile, so it wasn't like she was going to fry.
- "In the Water," to appear in Fictitious Force.
"I'm sorry," Alice said, and dried her eyes, sniffling. "It just feels like forgetting so soon would be wrong. I don't want to forget. I loved him."
"You won't forget. You just won't be upset."
"Which feels wrong."
In Circulation
- "Book of Shadows"
It's important to visualize during a spell. I tried to remember when I felt really prosperous; the measure of my success.
My Daddy's pride in me. That was what always made me feel successful. I'd never feel that again. He was gone.
- "The Last Wasicu"
The Wasicu cities still exist, rising up out of the turf. When the buffalo herds run across the plain, the towers shake and glass falls out of them.
Kicking Horse walks between the towers. He knows that under the soft, tall grass lie the bones of Wasicu. He's not afraid of ghosts--helpful ancestors teach the children to hunt and fish, gather herbs, speak their own language--but the evil dead are another thing. Some of these Wasicu were women and children, but some of them were bad men. He wouldn't come at all if he weren't looking for Snow Deer.
Scripts
Completed
- Dot Com
Dot Com is a comedy about disgruntled programmers dealing with incompetent coworkers, unreasonable deadlines, and a criminal lack of caffeine. If they're lucky, they might even get paid.
- Double Feature
Double Feature is a comic fantasy about two teens who face hostile aliens, vampires, and dragons--at least, in their imaginations. If only bullies, moronic school rules, and no girl's softball team were as easy to defeat.