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“The Mind of Allah” (Daily Science Fiction, Jan. 2012)
“Emiliano hurried across the Plaza del Potro, the setting sun skewering itself on the highest minaret of the Great Mosque of Cordoba.”
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“Strata”
(Amazon Kindle, Dec. 2011)“Kawe knew exactly what Poulson was talking about. Only yesterday Kawe had promised there would be no movement involvement in the race. He promised he'd fly to win--he'd fly to get back to Earth.”
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“Fisher’s Gambit”
(Rocket Science Anthology, forthcoming)“The Kuiper belt was vast, sparse, and remote. A ragtag collection of dwarf planets, rocks, comets, and ices wrought over a huge halo of space that begun at Neptune and ended halfway to Sol's termination shock.”
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“The Charnel Pit”
(Triangulation: Last Contact, July 2011)“The resting grounds of Tu-Duc--Fourth Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty, Protector of the United Lands of Nam Viet, Defender Against the Khmer Hordes--were so elaborate that work on them had begun over twenty years past.”
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“The Church of the Open Sky”
(Our Haunted World Anthology, forthcoming)“The smell of board wax, ritualistically applied a couple of hours earlier, mingled with the odors of salt water and sweat.”
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“Platform 17”
(Futurismic, Nov. 2010)“László led Orsi and her son through the crumbling edifice that was Keleti station. The smell of overspent train engines, cooked chestnuts, and paprika-spiced sausages laced the chilly air.”
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“Paper Cradle”
(Clarkesworld, Sept. 2010)“Even though you would've despised the weapon, Papa, you would've appreciated the beauty of its creation.”
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“It had been two years since Zhen Dao had seen the sky.”
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“Lacuna Blues”
(Music for Another World Anthology, Aug. 2010)“For so long all Oba had wanted was to hear the song.”
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“The Terrarium”
(Scape Zine, Apr. 2011)“Sam kept his fears in a globe-shaped terrarium next to his bed.”
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“Thargus and Brian”
(Escape Pod, 20th May 2010)“"Thargus Bartacus, zygote of Daelus and Phygus, do you accept the challenge?"”
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“Fashion Victim”
(Nature, 11th Feb. 2010)“Robert-Jay Wharmby wanted to take over the world.”
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“Napier’s Bones”
(Pseudopod, 4 Dec. 2009)“It was a bone. A real bone from a real animal. Perhaps a human bone. It was about the right size for an adult femur.”
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“Aquestria”
(Interzone, Jan. 2010)“'The thing you fear most is feeling nothing.' 'Like you, you mean?' He practically spits the words, so I know I've got it right. 'Yes, like me.'”
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“The Offside Trap”
(M-Brane SF's Queer Anthology, "Things We Are Not", Oct. 2009)“Instead he was using his fucked-up ability—which he'd promised to himself never to use with Emms—to find something to say to her question: why aren't we sleeping together anymore?”
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“Prisoners”
(M-Brane SF, Sept. 2009)“"How 'bout five years?" Mickey interrupted. "What's the world gonna be like in five years time?"”
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“Cold Trail Blazing”
(Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine, June 2009)“She can smell Ben. Earthy, clean, reassuring Ben. The smell is so pervasive he must be right here.”
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“Under An Arctic Sky”
(Futurismic, May 2009)
“Towards the east, where night was making its first advances, the Aurora Borealis - faint curtains of jade and crimson - swept the upper atmosphere.”
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“Reunion”
(Tumbarumba, Dec. 2008)“Then there was that time Sally had read the guts of her dead rabbit, and between them they'd convinced Chris that his late grandfather hated his little grandson.”
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“Micro Expressions”
(Cosmos Magazine, 18th Sept 2008)“The soldiers call me Diogenes, although they never address me directly.”
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“Dating for the Wired Generation”
(Nature, 22nd Nov 2007)“First there was Gloria. I met her through a dating agency called Heaven Scent.”
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“Everyone Carries A Shadow”
(Pseudopod, 10 Aug. 2007)
“My brother's death didn't need to meaningless. It would be my spur to reveal the cruel practices that go for treatment in our mental institutions up and down this land.”
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“By the Waters of the Ganga”
(Writers of the Future Vol. XXIII, Aug. 2007)“All I know is that one day I awoke and I was here, dispossesed of my body, my kind, my world; everything save for my memories.”
