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For my novel, Vintage, click here.

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Short stories & other published writing

2021


"The Balm of Sperrgebiet is the Krokodil" for Fit for Consumption

"Capturing Joe Lunge" for Fit for Consumption

"The Haferbräutigam" for Fit for Consumption

"His Mouth Will Taste of Chernobyl" for Fit for Consumption

"Poetaster" for Fit for Consumption

"The Unsolved 'Case of the Club Tarrare'" for Fit for Consumption

"Unwelcome Boys" for Fit for Consumption

2018


In Summer Breaking for ​Chelsea Station Magazine

"Kiss" for THCock: Stoner Boys 


2016​


The Haferbräutigam for The Dark
His Mouth Will Taste of Chernobyl for All in Fear
Some Advice From a Gay Publisher on Writing Gay essay for Strange Horizons
The Unsolved “Case of the Club Tarrare” for Harlot Magazine

2015


"The Balm of Sperrgebiet is the Krokodil" for Apotheosis: Stories of Human Survival After the Rise of the Elder Gods, Simian Publishing 

"Bonnacon" for Gods, Memes and Monsters: A 21st Century Bestiary

   

2014


"All Smiles" for Red Caps

"Most Likely" for Red Caps
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"
Persimmon, Teeth, and Boys" for Red Caps

     ~ for Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013

"Telltale Scent" for Joy Exhaustible: Assaracus Presents the Publishers

"Thimbleriggery and Fledgling" for Red Caps

"Worse Than Alligators for The Dark

     ~ 
for Red Caps

2013


"Persimmon, Teeth, and Boys" for Glitterwolf 4

"Poetaster" for Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe

2012


• All Smiles (reprint) for Wilde Stories 2012: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction

• Arose from Poetry for Brave New Love: 15 Dystopian Tales of Desire

• 
Capturing Joe Lunge for Night Shadows: Queer Horror

​•
 
Most Likely for Boys of Summer

2011


All Smiles for Teeth: Vampire Tales

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Thimbleriggery and Fledglings (reprint) for The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2011

    ~ for Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

2010


Thimbleriggery and Fledglings for The Beastly Bride and Other Tales of the Animal People

2009


"The High Cost of Tamarind" for Time Well Bent: Queer Alternate Histories

2008


All author notes to Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories are original

"Bittersweet" for Second Thoughts

"Caught by Skin" for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories

"Esemtep" for A Field Guide to Surreal Botany

"The High Cost of Tamarind" for Second Thoughts

"Kiss" for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories

"The Price of Glamour (reprint) for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories

"
A Rotten Obligation (reprint) for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories

"
Secrets of the Gwangi (reprint) for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories

"Tearjerker" for Paper Cities: An Anthology or Urban Fantasy

     ~ for Second Thoughts

"A Troll on a Mountain with a Girl (reprint) for Second Thoughts

"Well Wishing" for Second Thoughts

2007


Always Listen to a Good Pair of Underwear for His Underwear

Bittersweet for Journal of Mythic Arts Summer 2007

Secrets of the Gwangi (reprint) for
Best Gay Romance

Sentencing
for Hot Cops


A Troll on a Mountain with a Girl
for Japanese Dreams


Wagers of Gold Mountain
for 
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales

​Well Wishing
for 
Country Boys: Wild Gay Erotica

2006


Caught by Skin for Sex in the System

Coming Out 101 Final Exam
for Love, Bourbon Street


His Paper Doll (reprint) for Charmed Lives: Gay Spirit in Storytelling


Kiss (reprint) for Gaylaxicon 2006 Sampler


Secrets of the Gwangi
for 
Cowboys: Gay Erotic Tales

​​
True Loves, Says the Cartopedist for Sexist Soles

2005


"Attack of the Gay Wedding Cake Toppers" for Torquere Fresh off the Vine newsletter

Inkman's Work for Skin & Ink 

"A Rotten Obligation" for 
The Big Book of Erotic Ghost Stories

2004


"Attack of the Gay Wedding Cake Toppers" for I Do/I Don't: Queers on Marriage

"Beach2" for Chance Encounters

"Elevator"
for 50 Word Erotica website

"Interview with Ellen Kushner" for T
he Best of Strange Horizons: Year Two

One Plus One Equals Two
article for Xodus Magazine, Issue 6

​The Price of Glamour
for 
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm

2003


• A Different Trick (reprint) for Velvet Mafia

• Bronze Gods article for Xodus Magazine, Issue 3

​•
 
Kiss for X-Factor

2002


Chasing the DragonCon journalism for Hellnotes v.6, i33

Hair Like Fire, Blood Like Silk (reprint) for Velvet Mafia ​(defunct website)

A Rotten Obligation for The Best of the Best Meat Erotica

2001


The Anthvoke for Strange Horizons

The Anthvoke (reprint) for Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

Beach2
for 
Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

Finn's Night
for Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Tales


Hair Like Fire, Blood Like Silk for
Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

His Paper Doll
for 
Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

Path of Corruption (reprint) for 
Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

Resemblances (reprint)
 for Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

The Resurrectionist 
for Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

Tea Time With Corn 
Dolly for 
Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

​Vespers 
for 
Trysts: A Triskadecollection of Queer & Weird Stories

1999


Callings ​gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 252

1998


An Old Flame for Terror Time Again, Issue 3

Knot-Wards & Wood Songs gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 251

Little Rascals 
gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 245


Stroke of 13: Introducing the Famous & Infamous to your      Game
 gaming article for Journal of the Dark, 
​Issue 10

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Sunken Treasures gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 250

1997


Wicked Wicks (reprint) for Nox.com 
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Wild at Heart gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 237

1996


And the Walls Came Down gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 232

​A New Breed of Familiar gaming article for d8 Magazine, Issue 4

Dilemmas in Horror Roleplaying 
gaming article for Elsewhere Magazine, Issue 4


The Rhabdomancer 
gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 229​

Spells of the Scaled 
gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 235

To Walk Alongside the Night: Vampire Companions (reprint) for
Elsewhere Magazine, Issue 2


​Under Wraps
gaming article for Elsewhere Magazine, 
Issue 3

1994


Corrupted by the Dark gaming article for White Wolf Magazine, Issue 48

1993


Leaving His Ratwife for d8 Magazine. Issue 4

1991


"Of Grey Men & Lost Arcana" in The Silver Web (Issue 7)

anthologies edited

2023


Brute for Lethe Press

2021


Burly Tales for Lethe Press

2018


Wilde Stories 2018 for Lethe Press

2017


His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica for Lethe Press - Winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBT Erotica!

Wilde Stories 2017, ​Lethe Press

2016


Best Gay Stories 2016, Lethe Press

Heiresses of Russ 2016
 (co-edited with A.M. Dellamonica), Lethe Press
​

Wilde Stories 2016, ​Lethe Press

2015


Best Gay Stories 2015, Lethe Press

Heiresses of Russ 2015
 (co-edited with Jean Roberta), Lethe Press

​Wilde
 Stories 2015, ​Lethe Press

2014


​Best Gay Stories 2014. Lethe Press

Heiresses of Russ 2014
 (co-edited with Melissa Scott), Lethe Press

​Wilde
 Stories 2014, ​Lethe Press

2013


Handsome Devil: Stories of Sin & Seduction for Prime Books

Heiresses of Russ 2013
 (co-edited with Tenea D. Johnson) for Lethe Press

Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil War for Prime Books

Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe for Lethe Press - finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology


Wilde Stories 2013 ​for Lethe Press

Zombies: Shambling Through History for Prime Books

2012


Heiresses of Russ 2012 (co-edited with Connie Wilkins), Lethe Press

The Touch of the Sea​, Lethe Press

​Wilde
 Stories 2012​, Lethe Press

2011


Wilde Stories 2011, Lethe Press

2010


Best Gay Stories 2010, Lethe Press
​

Wilde Stories 2010​, Lethe Press

2009


Best Gay Stories 2009, Lethe Press
​

Wilde Stories 2009​, Lethe Press

2008


Best Gay Stories 2008, Lethe Press

Magic in the Mirrorstone,
Mirrorstone Books

​Wilde Stories 2008
, Lethe Press

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Other editorial and writing  efforts

BACHELORS DIGITAL ZINE


ICARUS magazine


DEFUNCT COLUMNS


SFSignal.com - Galaxy Q. Queer speculative fiction. Interview with 'Nathan Burgoine. Gay Tropes & Clichés – Darling, Don’t Kill Me. Gay Tropes & Clichés – The Bar. Welcome to Galaxy Q – Bringing Attention to the Giants of Queer Speculative Fiction.

Bones of the Children - A Most Dangerous Game. Roleplaying industry column 1996 For Boils and Ghouls. issue 1


d8 magazine - as Mr. October. Roleplaying with an evil disposition. 1996 "Mutiny can be Bountiful" issue 5, 1996 "Sticks and Stones" issue 4, 1996 "Hello, I'm from the IRS..." issue 3, 1995 "How to Keep a Good Man Down" issue 2, 1995 "A Necessary Evil". issue 1.
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