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Completed Stories/Novels

Science Fiction, Fantasy (Urban and High), and Other fiction can be found below. Fan Fiction has its own archive and can be found here.

Stories are grouped by universe and are listed in written chronological order unless otherwise noted. MuseFic is not included since they focus on the writing process and corresponding rough drafts.

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Science Fiction | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | Other


Urban/Suburban Fantasy


The Baron’verse

On Being Batman : 100 words February 8, 2017
Some things are worth the price.

Chasing the Wolf : 100 words May 18, 2016
Feral wolves never stop running.

All The King’s Horses : 100 words April 29, 2013
It’s never a good day to die. (Dumppack, Meg’s POV)

Ash to Ash : 147 words May 18, 2011
Some fairy tales have teeth.


Dogs of the Never Never’verse

Riding the Curve : 100 words January 24, 2013
Someone has to be average in his family and it may as well be Jon…

Definitions : 100 words December 8, 2007
There’s an inherent flaw in naming things.

No Takebacks : 180 words November 6, 2007
Jon never wanted to be different.

Leaves on the Wind : 201 words October 7, 2007
Life is more than power lunches and business suits.

Replacement Parts : 100 words October 1, 2007
There are reasons for the status quo.


Tales of the Drunken Unicorn

All Bite, No Bark : 100 words June 25, 2016
They’re wolves that would be men. (or: Why I need yet another type of werewolf– Because reasons.)


Too Old for Neverland’verse

Too Old For Neverland : 632 words May 22, 2006
They were too old for Neverland, those lost scarred souls that balanced on the edge of Growing Up. This is the foundation fic and should be read before any of the others.

Once Upon a Time : 100 words August 28, 2018
It’s always / never the same story.

Synonym, Metonym, Synecdoche : 100 words August 15, 2018
Words skirt the edges of the Fae.

Nightmares in Amber : 100 words August 13, 2018
Underhill is nothing without His children.

Lost and Found : 100 words July 25, 2017
All bargains have their price. Written for 100words Prompt #052 – Lost.

Momentum : 100 words January 17, 2007
Over the years Wendy collects her own band of unLost Boys.

The Tao of Names : 100 words December 13, 2006
She wasn’t Wendy, but she never had been.


Unaffiliated Stories

The Place Where I Am Lying : 384 words
Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling… r/WritingPrompts response. (500 Words)

Sin Eaters : 867 words
Crime has always been about paying your debts, one way or another. r/WritingPrompts response. (500 Words)

Unmade : 100 words July 13, 2012
“Tell me I’m not giving my life away for nothing.” Written for #ThursThreads – The Challenge That Ties Tales Together – Week 30.

Memo to Self : 115 words June 27, 2010
One morning Henry awoke to find a particularly odd message scrawled on his ceiling in lipstick.

On Arboreal Advice : 218 words October 31, 2008
“Put down the hammer and listen to me!”

The Cursed SunStone of Veramasu : 196 words July 16, 2008
There is noise and then there is song, and while it’s a fine line between the two Soya was pretty sure Til had wandered irrecoverably into noise.

Under New Management : 307 words July 14, 2008
“I am the death of hope!”

Promises : 298 words June 20, 2008
There’s a rock near the shore of a green-blue sea and every night when the tide rolls in she perches on it, just high enough above the waves that she can see to the top of the hill.

Daydreams : 260 words April 25, 2008
Dev had wanted to be a knight since he was old enough to swing sticks and imagine monsters.

Second Chances : 263 wordsAugust 28, 2006
Rana made a business of taking heroes home.

Missa pro defunctis : 127 words June 3, 2006
In the end, there was nothing I could do but watch her die.

Once Upon a Time : 278 words June 2, 2006
Things were happening too fast.

Keeping Watch : 227 words February 14, 2006
It was such a small loss, compared to the war raging around them, but the Seventh Company took it hard.


Science Fiction | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | Other


High/Second World Fantasy


Listener’verse

In Peace : 1,183 words June 21, 2014
It was a Listener’s job to put the dead to rest, no matter whose dead they were. (A Pel story.)


[YANS] (Yet Another New Story) NaNoWriMo 2017

[YANS] : 50,241 words
The story about writing a story (aka MuseFic), or: The only thing she knows is true anymore is that the dragon needs to die.

Words Before Worlds : 2,618 words
Prequel MuseFic about grand plans that disintegrated as soon as NaNo started.


Unaffiliated Stories

And Ever After : 55 words November 4, 2015
If there was life after death he’d find a way to show her. Written for the 55 Word Challenge.

A Hymn for St. Anthony : 55 words October 10, 2012
This is where churches come to die. Written for the 55 Word Challenge: Week Thirty.

Is, Was, Will Be : 55 words August 8, 2012
Fae eyes are full of death and I saw mine reflected there. Written for the 55 Word Challenge: Week Twenty-one.

Simple Instructions : 55 words July 26, 2012
Like this, his father said and the boy shifted his arm and changed his pose. Written for the 55 Word Challenge: Week Nineteen.

a’Courting Go : 55 words July 19, 2012
I’m the cat that hung the moon. Written for the 55 Word Challenge : Week 17.

Love Me: 55 words July 12, 2012
It’s love distilled, congealed, fermented into a pulsing heat that sings. Written for 55 Word Challenge : Week 16.

Pancakes With a Side of Myth : 184 words November 2, 2008
“You don’t find magic in an IHOP.”

Mr. Magnifico vs. Miss’Terious! : 468 words May 11, 2008
“Kindly put that down and step away from the particle accelerator.”

The Ghost of Herington Hill : 386 words (Song) 
There’s a light in the limbs of the old oak tree / Where they hung the mutineer Jones.

To Every Season : 415 words December 24, 2005
Carol was not in the habit of showing off.

Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Tell You No Lies : 323 words July 17, 2006
There was something in the way he said goodbye that made her stop, phone halfway returned to its cradle held in a suddenly trembling hand.

Beyond the Sea :  121 words (Song/Poem) July 12, 2006
There is a land beyond the sea…

Of Ignorance and Angels : 159 words May 10, 2006
It had come up in casual conversation; Bonnie was griping over a recently ex-boyfriend and Danny had said it without thinking.


Science Fiction | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | Other


Science Fiction


Blackguards and Plaster Saints

Digging a Grave in the Sky : 100 words (poem) April 2, 2012
There’s an arc in the sky, a thin grey line,

Elm Creek : 273 words October 21, 2008
There are only two people left in Elm Creek who remember when it was simply The Ship, without qualifiers or descriptions required.

Twin Ponds : 305 wordsMay 20, 2008
Twin Ponds was a tiny town, but it had always been tiny; little more than a collection of houses in the midst of unbounded prairie.

Jess : 474 words March 18, 2008
Ten percent of the population was twenty percent of my friends.

Exodus : 231 words February 3, 2008
No one had slept.

Chloe : 283 words February 2, 2008
It’s the night before the exodus —two hours, five minutes and counting— and there’s nothing left to do.

Aiden : 153 words September 21, 2007
A year ago, our future died; the hopes and dreams of youth, withering in the oncoming thunder of a century of war.


Rabbit’verse

When One Plus One is Blue : 305 words July 24, 2008
The very first First was nothing more than an accident.


Skipping Stones

Bent, Not Broken : 100 words September 14, 2007
The morning after the first successful Starways-DuPont-Boeing human skipdrive trial.

On Behalf of the Company : 264 words August 30, 2006
Skip, skip, skip, … skip, skip, skip

Chance of a Lifetime : 150 words June 14, 2006
She had skipped a hundred times before, bouncing back and forth on the colonial cargo runs.

And One To Grow On : 132 words May 8, 2006
Auntie Meredith was just no good at buying presents.

Lost : 100 words May 7, 2006
Space travel takes its tithe in years.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics : 161 words March 8, 2006
The world cheered when the first pod skipped from low Earth orbit to Mars, then onto Pluto in the same fraction of a second.


Unaffiliated Stories

Folk Tales and Family Legends : 895 words June 13, 2020
History’s rewritten by the victors. r/WritingPrompts response. (500 Words)

Mementos : 403 words May 29, 2020
Old memories and misplaced dreams. r/WritingPrompts response. (500 Words)

Bargains : 529 words May 23, 2020
Beware of Fae bearing gifts. r/WritingPrompts response. (500 Words)

For Want of a Gate : 338 words March 26, 2020
Worldbuilding. Filing off the serial numbers to build a non-Stargate Atlantis home for Imaginary Gate Team 5. (500 Words)

Ghosts : 100 words May 25, 2016
sonder: n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own. Written for the challenge over on NerdFitness boards based on this post from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

Walls That Talk : 100 words July 27, 2012
“Is that really the story you wish?” Written for the #ThursThreads – Week 32

Symbiotic Evolution : 100 words July 24, 2012
Ten days, four hours, seventeen minutes, and forty seconds ago my world ended. Written for #MenageMonday Challenge – Week 40

Office Heretics : 338 words June 1, 2012
“Flowerpots are wheelchairs for plants,” Penny deposited the petunias on my desk with an almost triumphant cheeriness.

Biological Warfare : 191 words May 12, 2008
Highways wound through the abandoned countryside like fractures, carving the land into easily defined territories.

Thinking Inside the Box : 244 words August 1, 2006
Garbage in is not always garbage out.


Science Fiction | Urban Fantasy | High Fantasy | Other


Other Fiction

Throwdowns With Bears (or: A Muse, Three Ways) : Script (92 words), Comic+Poem (18 words), Song (37 words) March 21, 2012
Written for Bear’s Throwdown Writing Challenge.

An Ode to Spammers : 104 words (Poem) June 16, 2011
I do not like you Spam-I-Am.

Hope Burns : 100 words August 6, 2008
It wasn’t healthy, but she couldn’t bring herself to give up what little hope had made it through the war.

Graveyard Dogs : 31 words (Poem) February 14, 2007
Those graveyard dogs,

In Will Alone : 85 words (Poem) February 14, 2007
Take this pain of half-imagined never-afters,

Dancing in Bars : 101 words (Poem) 1997-ish
Dancing in bars/And showing off scars/Of a thousand shattered dreams.

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