Short Fiction
All Your Cities I Will Burn
"At that time I was a middle-aged man at loose ends. I had just resigned my employment of the last decade, as an investigator with the Duke-GeneSolutions NuLife project. I gave notice by smashing my lab with a steel meter stick. Alcohol may have been involved."
She’s a Flight Risk
"The night bell captain rang up Tatiana's room, saying there were people coming up from the lobby. He was interrupted by sounds that Tatiana recognized as automatic weapons fire. Then the line went dead, along with the bell captain, she supposed."
Bullet Dance
"At night Shi and Morir came to Clio's room and taught her to bullet dance. Morir held a silvery Desert Eagle and sighted along its barrel at Clio. He wore a white linen suit and his black hair fell to his waist. Clio thought Morir had the most beautiful hair she had ever seen. It looked like her mother's hair in old photographs. Her mother was dead. For that matter, so was Morir, or at least, he was not alive in the usual sense."
Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery
"I got your voice mail. You ask, why do I hate you? Have you forgotten? Perhaps you have had an alcoholic blackout. You got drunk. You hit on my sister Heather, at my party, in my apartment. You then threw up on Heather while humping her on my bed."Errant Souls
"Don't play outside on windy days," Jorge's father said. "Your soul might blow right out of your body."
Adventures in Dog-Walking in Downtown Philadelphia
"It was a inconvenient day for Dawdle the dachshund to turn into a fax machine..."419 Scam
"I am Lupul Dragomir, attorney to the late Count Vlad SexGod of Romania...."The Girl of Flesh
"It is a tale they tell of the clockwork worlds, where the sun and planets and the starry firmament swing around the earth on titanic gears of brass and steel, like an immense orrey. The music of their turning, tooth ringing on tooth, ratchets ticking and chains clanking, fills the universe with harmonious and mathematical sound, and delights the clockwork citizens of the earth..."