Bibliography

Novels

  • Temple (2016)
  • Abducted (2016)
  • Land of the Dead (2015)
  • New Avalon (2015)
  • Bullet Rain (2014)
  • Legion (2014)
  • Walk the Sky (2013)
  • The Inner Circle (2012)
  • Man of Wax (2011)
  • The Serial Killer’s Wife (2011)
  • The Dishonored Dead (2011)
  • The Calling (2011)
  • No Shelter (2011)

Novellas

  • First Kill
  • The Man on the Bench
  • In Solemn Shades of Endless Night
  • Through the Guts of a Beggar
  • The Silver Ring

Collections

  • Real Illusions: Stories
  • Phantom Energy: [Very Short] Stories

Short Fiction

  • “Revolver,” Flash Fiction Offensive, September 7, 2015
  • “Youth in Asia,” Wigleaf, June 3, 2015
  • “Keep Me Signed In,” Wigleaf, June 3, 2015
  • “Muse,” Better Weird: A Tribute to David B. Silva, edited by Richard Chizmar, Brian James Freeman, and Paul F. Olson (Cemetery Dance), 2015
  • “Wart,” Vol. 1 Brooklyn, April 13, 2014
  • “Testimony,” Out of the Gutter, August 13, 2012
  • “Our Father, the Music Teacher,” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, July 23, 2012
  • “Mr. Mockingbird Drive,” Needle: A Magazine of Noir, issue 6, Winter 2012
  • “The Hunter,” Swedish Zombie, July 5, 2011
  • “Hobo With a Slingshot,” Dirty Noir, June 15, 2011
  • “The Honeymooners,” Dark Sky Magazine, May 10, 2011
  • “Fright X,” Storyglossia, issue 43, April 2011
  • “Noogle Knock,” ChiZine, issue 47, April 18-24, 2011
  • “Crash Test Dummy,” PANK, March 2011
    • runner-up for PANK’s second 1,001 Awesome Words Contest
  • “Hooligans,” Bluestem, March 2011
    • includes audio of me reading the story
  • “Tramp Stamp,” Dark Sky Magazine, December 15, 2010
  • “The Lonely Life of a Tertiary Character,” Foundling Review, November 2010
  • “Pillar of Salt,” The Company He Keeps: Postscripts #22/23, edited by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers, Fall 2010
  • “My Brother’s Death Note,” Every Day Fiction, November 5, 2010
  • “Excerpts From The Journal Of A Boy With Webbed Feet,” Writers’ Bloc, issue 13, July 2010
  • “The Chameleon Kid,” PANK, July 2010
    • includes audio of me reading the story
  • “Multiplicity,” Every Day Fiction, May 14, 2010
  • “The Cigarette Tree,” Staccato Fiction, April 19, 2010
  • “Seven Items in Jason Reynolds’ Jacket Pocket, Two Days After His Suicide, As Found by his Eight-Year-Old Brother, Grady,” PANK, April 2010
    • runner-up for the 4th annual Micro Award
    • runner-up for PANK’s first 1,001 Awesome Words Contest
  • “Terms and Conditions,” The Los Angeles Review, issue 7, April 2010
  • “NSFW,” Sententia, issue 1, April 2010
  • “Summer of ’84,” Everyday Genius, March 30, 2010
  • “10 Items or Less,” JMWW, Spring 2010
  • “An Insurrection,” Necessary Fiction, March 3, 2010
    • reprinted in CellStories, June 17, 2010
  • “Point of View,” Emprise Review, issue 13, March 2010
  • “Superman’s Dead,” Monkeybicycle, January 18, 2010
  • “The Killer Inside ©,” Wigleaf, December 30, 2009
  • “The Dry Patch,” Verbicide Magazine,December 15, 2009
  • “End of Our World As We Know It,” Space And Time, issue 109, Winter 2009
  • “Against the Sun,” Nanoism, October 2009
  • “Dead Weight,” Fifty-Two Stitches, October 2009
  • “The Actuary,” Keyhole Digest, October 2009
  • “Two of a Kind,” 10Flash Quarterly, issue 2, October 2009
  • “Phantom Energy,” Wigleaf, September 24, 2009
    • finalist for the 3rd Annual Micro Award
  • “Castle Hybrid,” Inhuman #4, September 2009
  • “The Bat,” PANK, June 2009
  • “Calluses,” 50 to 1, June 2009
  • “Incomplete,” Every Day Fiction, May 20, 2009
    • reprinted in CellStories, November 18, 2009, and The Best of Every Day Fiction Two, 2010
  • “Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning To Work,” Monkeybicycle, May 2009

  • “The Amazing Adventures of (C) and (R),” elimae, April 2009

  • “Peep,” The Northville Review, April 2009

  • “Lea & Perrins,” Lamination Colony, Spring 2009
  • “The Tooth Fairy,” Everyday Weirdness, March 17, 2009
  • “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service,” Hobart, March 2009
  • “first date at coney island,” Dogzplot, February 2009
  • “How Oprah Turned My Rat Into the Next James Frey,” Pequin, January 2009
  • “The Perfect Scene,” Pear Noir! #1, January 2009
  • “Heard on the Walk Between Classes, From the English Wing to the Math Wing of Northridge High School,” In Posse Review, issue 25, 2008
  • “Mother of the Year,” decomP, November 2008
  • “Corrections & Clarifications,” elimae, October 2008
  • “A Select Scene From The Life Of A Boy With Webbed Feet,” Mud Luscious, issue 5, 2008
  • “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” Titular Journal, August 2008
  • “Live Money, Save Better,” Dogzplot, August 2008
  • “Between the Keys,” elimae, July 2008
    • finalist for the 2nd Annual Micro Award
  • “Thirst,” 55 Words, May 2008
  • “Take Off,” Boston Literary Magazine, Summer 2008
    • reprinted in The Best of Boston Literary Magazine edited by Robin Stratton, March 2009
  • “The Girl Across the Street,” Six Sentences, June 11, 2008
    • reprinted in Drunk and Lonely Men #2, November 30, 2008, and BURST, Winter 2009
  • “The Luckiest Man in the World,” Every Day Fiction, March 17, 2008
  • “Goodbye,” Poe’s Progeny, edited by Gary Fry, 2005
  • “Kracker,” The Edge, Tales of Suspense, issue 20, 2004
  • “The Road to Eden,” Fusing Horizons, issue 4, 2004
  • “In the Land of the Blind,” ChiZine, issue 22, October-December 2004
    • winner of the 10th Annual Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest
    • reprinted in Best New Zombie Tales, Vol, 1., edited by James Roy Daley, 2010
  • “Of Ants and Men,” Small Bites, edited by Garrett Peck and Keith Gouveia, 2004
  • “Persistence,” Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, vol. 7, issue 33, 2004
  • “Unrequited Love,” Darkness Rising 6: Evil Smiles, edited by L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims, 2003
  • “The Baby Lot,” Dark Animus, issue 1, 2002
    • reprinted in Horrorfind, January 2003
  • “Pyramid Seven,” Horrorfind, June 2002
  • “From Heaven,” Dreaming of Angels, edited by Gord Rollo and Monica J. O’Rourke, 2002
  • “Only the Lonely,” Something Wicked Online, 2002
  • “Heredity,” Blood Samples, 2001
  • “July in Christmas,” Black Petals, vol. IV, issue 2, 2000
  • “Demon Moon,” Black Petals, vol. IV, issue 1, 2000
  • “Blind Insight,” Burning Sky, Adventures in Science Fiction Terror, issue 6, 2000
  • “Can You Spare a Dollar?” Fright X, issue 13, 1999
  • “The Bogeyman,” Quicker, 1999
  • “My Uncle’s Warning,” Parchment Symbols, issue 3, 1999

Poetry

  • “Plush,” Flesh & Blood, issue 10, 2002
  • “Blood Fountain,” Parchment Symbols, issue 8, 2001

As editor

  • Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, published by W. W. Norton, 2010

Miscellaneous