Read Online

Here are some selected stuff that you can read online for free.

Fiction

The House at the End of the World
Everyone plays dead, and a painting holds a secret key. Published in Farrago’s Wainscot 2009.
The Last Stand of the Ant Maker
Obsession with ants. A plant invasion. Published in Apex Magazine 2010.
Mister Waterbones and His Wife
Mooka and Ook are fed up. They want respect! They want immortality! Published in Farrago’s Wainscot in 2008.
Secret in the House of Smiles
A story about college life, vampire hunting, and quantum physics. Originally published in Clarkesworld in 2009 and then reprinted in Glass Coffin Girls in 2010.
A Word Without Ghosts
A short story about Peter Pan as a bear, memories as magic, and a world of graveyards and abandoned train stations. Published in Fantasy Magazine in 2008.
The Adventures of Petal, the Paperdoll Pirate
A short story about a paperdoll pirate, searching for her creator, in a watercolor world. There are paper plate monsters and popsicle stick cannibals. Published in Fantasy Magazine in 2008.
The Days of Talking Mountains
Alice raised giants on the farms near the borderlands. A farm now in ruin, after the cult that had built it vanished mysteriously years ago.

Confessions of a Red Mage
An article about console/Japanese RPG’s of the golden age (the Nintendo, SuperNintendo, Genesis, etc). Published in Strange Horizons magazine.
Rebirth of Grue
An article about the next generation of text adventure games. Published in Strange Horizons magazine.

SunSorrow
Carcossa calls to Beyla, and her sword wants her to keep killing, to keep destroying the broken world.
Light Like Knives Dragged Across the Skin
A short story about a weird card game that changes who we are as people, and ends in murder. Published in Psuedopod.
Fingerbones Hung Like Mobiles
A short story about trading bones and death. Published in Psuedopod.
Secret in the House of Smiles
Podcasted by Tales that Terrify. Quantum Vampires and college hijinks.