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For my novel, Vintage, click here.

​For my short story collections, click on the title: Trysts, Second Thoughts, Red Caps.

All entries on the left are short fiction unless otherwise noted; the first appearance of a story is cited in bold.

Forthcoming stories


2021

•  The Balm of Sperrgebiet is the Krokodil for Fit for Consumption
•
 Capturing Joe Lunge (slightly revised version) for Fit for Consumption
• The Haferbräutigam (reprint) for Fit for Consumption
•
 His Mouth Will Taste of Chernobyl for (reprint) for Fit for Consumption
• Poetaster (reprint) for Fit for Consumption
•​ The Unsolved “Case of the Club Tarrare” (reprint) for Fit for Consumption

2020

Vintage: the 13th Anniversary Edition, Lethe Press

2018

• In Summer Breaking for ​Chelsea Station Magazine
•​ Kiss (reprint) for 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 (reprint) for Red Caps: New Fairy Tales for Extraordinary Readers
• Most Likely (reprint) for Red Caps: New Fairy Tales for Extraordinary Readers
​• Persimmon, Teeth, and Boys (reprint) for Red Caps: New Fairy Tales for Extraordinary Readers
• Persimmon, Teeth, and Boys (reprint) for Year's Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013
• Telltale Scent for Joy Exhaustible: Assaracus Presents the Publishers
• Thimbleriggery and Fledgling (reprint) for Red Caps: New Fairy Tales for Extraordinary Readers
• Worse Than Alligators (reprint) for Red Caps: New Fairy Tales for Extraordinary Readers
• Worse Than Alligators for The Dark

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
​
• Thimbleriggery and Fledglings (reprint) for The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2011
• Thimbleriggery and Fledglings (reprint) 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 (reprint) for Time Well Bent: Queer Alternate Histories

2008

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

• Bittersweet (reprint) for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories
• Caught by Skin (reprint) for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories
• Esemtep for A Field Guide to Surreal Botany
• The High Cost of Tamarind for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories
• Kiss (reprint) 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
Tearjerker (reprint) for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories
A Troll on a Mountain with a Girl (reprint) for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories
Well Wishing (reprint) for Second Thoughts: More Queer & Weird Stories

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 (reprint) for Torquere Fresh off the Vine newsletter
Inkman's Work for Skin & Ink 
A Rotten Obligation (reprint) 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 (reprint) for Chance Encounters
Elevator for 50 Word Erotica (website)
Interview with Ellen Kushner (reprint) 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
​Sunken Treasures gaming article for Dragon Magazine, Issue 250

1997

Wicked Wicks (reprint) for Nox.com 
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 for The Silver Web, Issue 7

Edited books                   (total is 29!)


2021

Burly Tales, Lethe Press

2018

Wilde Stories 2018, Lethe Press

2017

His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica, Lethe Press 
   Winner of a Lambda Literary Award!
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, Prime
  Books
Heiresses of Russ 2013
 (co-edited with Tenea D. Johnson), Lethe Press
Shades of Blue and Gray: Ghosts of the Civil 
  War, 
Prime Books
Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar
  Allan Poe, 
Lethe Press

Wilde Stories 2013, ​Lethe Press
Zombies: Shambling Through History, 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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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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