Abandonware - Fantasy Magazine, June 2010
The file was gibberish to me. The one thing I could identify was a function library, but even knowing what it was, I couldn’t make sense of it. It called double- and triple-variables, set up regular expressions which took up hundreds of lines, had functions so deeply recursive and such a complex net of file requires and cross-references that the entire thing was one big knot. It could’ve been a map of the universe.
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God in the Sky - Asimov's Science Fiction
Forthcoming.
Jessamine - Reflection's Edge, June 2010
Morning came as it came in those days, a slow lightening of the eastern sky without fire or fanfare. Twilights, in those days, we called akk-ha-mam: “when the sky gathers dust.”
I found her that morning on a balcony, watching the eastern sky. “They say the dawns were red once,” she said.
Of Men and Wolves - Fantasy Magazine
Forthcoming.
Portage - Apex Magazine
Forthcoming.
Small Monuments - ChiZine #36, April-June 2008
On still days, sometimes, he thought he heard crying, hanging in the air. He’d been east and south and a little to the west, scoped out his desert and shared it with Anisha, but maybe he could have the north to himself.
He walked up the highway toward Los Alamos.
Year of the Rabbit - ChiZine, #44, April-June 2010
It used to be that the sun would go down and the streetlamps would come on and make pools of this wet, yellow light. No matter where you stood, you could see the lights on somewhere. You could run from streetlamp to streetlamp and you could look down the streets and you'd never drown in the dark.