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The Taste of Pennies -- A Fantasy Novel:

This began life as my first full-length fantasy story, written while I was teaching creative writing to my seventh graders in Nebraska. That was in 1992. I kept coming back to it over the years, until I finally finished it in 2001, writing the last 200 pages in a month. It's sort of urban fantasy mixed in with some good ol' swords 'n' sorcery, minus the swords.

Read an excerpt from the first chapter of The Taste of Pennies.

Fantasy Stories:

I've always enjoyed the genre of urban or contemporary fantasy, where magical things happen in the present, shaking up the "normal" world. Where appropriate, I've attached a link if a story has been published online. You can also check out my genre-less, chronological bibliography.

"Gunning for the Buddha"

S1ngularity, March 2003 (debut issue).
Available in its entirety at Fictionwise.
Reprinted in Gunning for the Buddha.
Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, vol. 17.

"Natural Order"

Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2002.
Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction, vol. 20.
Available in its entirety at Fictionwise.
Reprinted in Gunning for the Buddha.

"Riverrun Alley"

MarsDust, July 2003.
Available in its entirety at Fictionwise.

Gunning for the Buddha, January 2005.

"No Crying over Spilled Ink"

The Lite Side from CyberPulp, upcoming.

"Gillian Underground"
(with Tim Pratt and Greg van Eekhout)

Polyphony 5, September 2005.

"California King"
(with Greg van Eekhout)

Asimov's Science Fiction, upcoming.

"The Brotherhood of Trees"

Aeon Speculative Fiction, Spring 2006.

"Coal Ash and Sparrows"

Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2004.
Honorable Mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction, vol. 22.
Available in its entirety at Fictionwise.
Reprinted in Gunning for the Buddha.