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Short Stories "29 Union Leaders Can't Be Wrong," Strange Horizons, June 2007 The doctor gives him an orange as soon as he wakes up. “Careful,” the doctor says, curling someone’s fingers around the waxy skin. “It takes a little getting used to. Can you feel this?” Stephen realizes he can feel the orange, it’s too ripe, but it’s still someone else’s hand. "29 Union Leaders is a story which I believe will stick with me for a while and one which I'll think back on and wonder what happens next and what happened in between the lines. That's a good story." - Joe Sherry, Adventures in Reading
* "A Dinner of Chrysanthemums", The Green Muse, October 2007. Reprint: Flashquake, June 2008. He tightened his grip on the cup; he had not heard her speak this way since the night in the garden when she’d held out his own sword to him hilt first, clutching the blade, the bright blood pooling through her white fingers.
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"La Belle Dormant", Byzarium, January 2008 (When the sun was high I used to stand in the garden, toss a little golden ball to watch it shine. I played for hours that way. It is for the best I pricked my finger.)
* "With Pride and Dignity Since 1976," 10x10x10, June 2007 There were five people in the room, if you counted the body.
* "Wedding Portrait", Quarter After Eight, April 2008 She volunteered to stand in the rain and wait with me for the cab, but when I offered my coat she shook her head, held up her white hands. “No use,” she said. “There’s nothing that protects against a cold like this.” Then she laced her fingers together over the little gold band and looked away down the street, shivering towards the darkness until the cab appeared.
NONFICTION "A Man, a Plan, a Banal - Dark Kingdom." Fantasy Magazine, April 2008. The Nibelungenlied is a German epic poem that dates in written form as far back as the 13th century, from an oral tradition much older; it wrestles with the dying pagan culture, the rise of Christianity, and the ideas of heroism, nationalism, fatalism, deception, strength, and revenge. It’s so mythology-rich that Tolkien used it as inspiration for The Lord of the Rings; it’s so thematically powerful that German propaganda posters from the 1930s still depicted the great hero Siegfried as a way to rouse national pride. In an era where TV audiences are more than willing to tune in to cable miniseries, The Nibelungenlied must have cried out for a thoughtfully-written, richly-produced, well-acted, sword-swinging adaptation. Aztec Rex. Fantasy Magazine, May 2008. In the early 16th century, Hernan Cortés led a legendary expedition to Mexico, ostensibly to foster trade. Upon meeting the reigning Aztecs, Cortés ran up against a cultural misunderstanding that lessened his power; this cultural misunderstanding caused the supposedly peaceful expedition to become a sudden and violent struggle for conquest. Though Cortés and other Spaniards would continually run into trouble from cultural misunderstandings, the Spanish conquest of Mexico would soon be complete. Above is a vague description of Cortés’s invasion of Mexico. Boring, right? Well, every time it says “cultural misunderstanding”, substitute “T. Rex”, and you have the plot of AZTEC REX.
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