• "Plastromancer" - published in issue #12 of Paradox.  In ancient China, a diviner uses tortoise shells to foretell the doom of an empire.

• "Turning Time" - published in issue #23 of Abyss & Apex.  The dead are cold, and during a ceremonial event in Madagascar, they are brought out to meet their descendents... and to find warmth once again.  (Read it here.)

• "Ladders" - published in issue #33 of ChiZine (www.chizine.com).  An allegorical tale of an inescapable city and a population so desperate to escape they turn to the only direction left...  (Read it here.)

• "Internal Affairs" - published in issue #1.3 of Withersin (www.withersin.com). A GI in Iraq is a modern-day entrailist who uses his prophetic talents to keep himself and his team alive - at a terrible cost.

• "Combers" - Second Place Winner in the Writer's Digest 2006 Genre Contest.  A mystery, following five people searching a field for a missing boy.  One of them is the murderer.
   
• "Stowaway" - Shortlisted in Albedo One's 2nd Annual Aeon Contest, about a prophetic stowaway who predicts galactic apocalypse. 

• "The Red Envelope" - 2nd Place Winner in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest Vol. XXII, and also appearing in the Year's Best Romantic Fantasy 2, and earned an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror.  A naive American in Taiwan finds himself bound by their customs to be the groom in a 'ghost marriage' to a deceased girl. He remains faithful until one day he falls in love with another woman... and his wife does not approve.  (Order it here.)

• "Chain Letter" - An electronic crimes detective must hunt down a vicious serial killer bent on murdering every recipient of an email chain letter.  Published in Futures Mystery, Sep-Oct 2005.

• "Restoration" - a grim exploration of immortality told through the eyes of two characters in a ten-thousand year existence, illustrating the impact of such a possibility on the future of our race. Imagine if reincarnation is the true and necessary state of our souls' progression... Published in Issue #5 of Paradox, Summer 2004.

• "Past Tense" - a radical view of alternate history, told from the standpoint of a desperate man who is alone in his ability to perceive quantum reality shifts occurring constantly and always re-writing history. Published in Would That It Were, Jan. 2003.
   
• "Guardians" - 3rd Place Winner in the 2002 Distant Worlds Short Story Contest - about a team of galactic rescue workers, called upon to aid planets undergoing cataclysmic upheavals. What happens when those they're helping refuse to leave? Read it
   
• "Rescue Shelter" - Published in Frightnet and The Reaper. An old woman is forced to leave her home in Louisiana in advance of Hurricane Hugo. She has never left it in 40 years, ever since magically protecting her house against the intrusion of a patient and vengeful spirit...

• "Double or Nothing" - published in Plot Magazine (Spring, 1996), an updated Deal-with-the-Devil tale, played out in the casinos of Las Vegas for the highest stakes.

• "Tour Guide" - published in the 1st (and only) issue of Manifest Destiny (in 1993). The last days of the Earth are chronicled by an ageless robot, nostalgically trying to recall his early days and the history of the race that had long since departed.

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