...forthcoming in End of an Ĉon (Fairwood Press, tent. 2009; edited by Marti McKenna and Bridget McKenna).

Now that she's sixteen, Margie is ready to join the Patriot Girls, and do what's right for her country.

...reprinted in Shelter of Daylight (April 2009; edited by Tyree Campbell).

Someone has to watch out for the city squirrels. Don't they?

...appearing in Every Day Fiction, July 31, 2008 (Camille Gooderham Campbell, editor).

Why is Sebastian the lion wearing the lion tamer's sock? Read more.

...appearing in The Sky's the Limit, an anthology celebrating the 20th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Pocket Books, October 2007; edited by Marco Palmieri).

Yes, Deanna Troi passed the bridge officer's test, but she's about to find out that a holodeck test is not quite the same as reality.

...appearing in Strange Horizons, September 24, 2007 (Susan Marie Groppi, Jed Hartman, and Karen Meisner, Fiction Editors).

"Beloved daughter, you died very young and did not experience the unity of marriage. Yang Xingwu and his wife have recently lost a son. They have asked for betrothal so your souls might meet." Read more.

...appearing in the FenCon IV Program Book (Dallas Future Society/FenCon, September 2007; edited by Barry Whitewater).

Two days after the kidnappers released her, Tia Loring was back at work. But sometimes, there's no going back.

Cover art by David Mattingly. Used with the permission of the artist and FenCon. All rights reserved.

...appearing in Khimairal Ink, vol. 3, no. 2 (September 2007; published by Claudia Wilde, edited by Carrie Tierney and C.A. Casey).

The art of the future may take on forms we can't yet imagine. But the more things change, the more they stay the same.... Read more.

Cover art by Claudia Wilde. Used with the permission of the artist/Khimairal Ink. All rights reserved.

...appearing in Strange Horizons, April 30, 2007 (Susan Marie Groppi, Jed Hartman, and Karen Meisner, Fiction Editors).

"The words mock me, 'cause every kid grows up in Pedy knows you don't walk around looking at the sky instead of the ground. That's the surest way to get yourself killed, out here where shafts mark the landscape like so many tunnels down to hell...." Read more.

*Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2008, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant.

...appearing in Strange New Worlds 8 (Pocket Books, July 2005; edited by Dean Wesley Smith with Elisa J. Kassin and Paula M. Block).

As we all know, Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres have a calm, cool, and collected relationship. So naturally their wedding should go smoothly. Right?

...appearing in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, no. 15 (January 2005; published by Small Beer Press, edited by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link).

Who says IM-speak can't be eloquent?

Cover art by Steve Lieber. Used with the permission of Small Beer Press. All rights reserved.

...appearing in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds VII (Pocket Books, June 2004; edited by Dean Wesley Smith, with John J. Ordover, Elisa J. Kassin, and Paula M. Block).

A Trill symbiont, with its multiple lifetimes, can live for centuries, or maybe even forever. But won't the law of averages eventually catch up with us all?

...appearing in Irregular Quarterly, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 2004; edited by Jamie Rosen).

Someone has to watch out for the city squirrels. Don't they?

We think our celebrities are extravagent? They're even worse when they have magic to play with...

(Artwork copyright 2004 by Raechel Henderson Moon. Used with permission. All rights reserved.)

Want to be an astrologer? Don't forget to account for the way constellations look from other galaxies...

(Artwork copyright 2005 by Raechel Henderson Moon. Used with permission. All rights reserved.)