Short Stories


COMING SOON

Heroic Hearts"The Dark Ship"
Heroic Hearts
Edited by Jim Butcher and Kerrie L. Hughes

Ace, May 2022
Print/eBook/audiobook (of the whole anthology)
Read an Excerpt


AVAILABLE IN EBOOK

Ruby Slippers, Golden TearsBlack Swan, White Raven Silver Birch, Blood Moon

“Match Girl”
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Open Road Integrated Media edition, September 2014
Originally published December 1995
(story made the Honorable Mentions list in 1995 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror)

“Rapunzel”
Black Swan, White Raven
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Open Road Integrated Media edition, September 2014
Originally published October 1998

“The Wild Heart”
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Open Road Integrated Media edition, September 2014
Originally published March 1999




AVAILABLE IN PRINT, EBOOK, AND AUDIO

Stranded
 


“A Strand in the Web”
(a science fiction novella)

Stranded, edited by Debra Dixon
BelleBooks, August 24, 2012

("A Strand in the Web" was originally published in Orbiter.)


Read an excerpt from “A Strand in the Web”




AVAILABLE IN EBOOK AND AUDIO

The VoiceThe Voice, Australia
 

“The Voice”
An eSpecial from New American Library, February 2012
(Penguin Audio download, March 2012)
HarperCollins Australia e-edition, March 2012




AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK AND EBOOK

Imaginary FriendsTangled webs
 

“Stands a God Within the Shadows”
Imaginary Friends, edited by John Marco and Martin H. Greenberg
DAW, September 2008

Read an excerpt from “Stands a God Within the Shadows”

“By the Time the Witchblood Blooms”
A bonus story included with Tangled Webs




AVAILABLE IN PRINT
[SOLD OUT]


Ghost and Mirror
 


"The Fairest One of All"
"She Moved Through the Fair"
Ghost and Mirror edited by Scott Cupp
Fandom Association of Central Texas (FACT), August 2012 Limited edition chapbook (250 copies total)



AVAILABLE IN EBOOK

Powers of Detection
 


“The Price” (a Surreal story)
Powers of Detection: Tales of Mystery & Fantasy
edited by Dana Stabenow
Ace Books, October 2004 and December 2006

Read an excerpt from “The Price”



HARD TO FIND/OUT OF PRINT


Match GirlBlack SwanSilver Birch
Treachery and Treason HorrorsLighthouse

“Match Girl”
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Prime Books edition, May 2008
Avon edition, December 1995
(story made the Honorable Mentions list in 1995 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror)

“Rapunzel”
Black Swan, White Raven

edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
Avon edition, October 1998
Prime Books edition, May 2008

“The Wild Heart”
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
published by Avon, March 1999

“Tunnel”
Horrors! 365 Scary Stories
edited by S. Dziemianowicz, M. Greenberg, R. Weinberg
Barnes & Noble, September 1999
(anthology won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology of 1998)

“The Fairest One of All”
Lighthouse Magazine
Issue 2, January 2004

“By the Time the Witchblood Blooms”
Treachery and Treason
edited by Laura Anne Gilman and Jennifer Heddle
Roc, March 2000



OTHER LANGUAGES

The Price
 

“The Price”
reprinted in the German Anthology Mondträume Fantastische und magische Geschichten
Der Club Bertelsmann, 2011

 

CrowbonesCrowbones, in paperback February 2023