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Publications

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Upcoming

“Grasshoppers and Mountain Cats”, Creepy Pod, TBD
“The Cycle”, Penumbric, TBD
“That Would Be Something”, Polar Starlight, TBD
“Whispers”, Polar Borealis, TBD
“How to Introduce Yourself to an Old House”, Crow & Cross Keys, April 2024
“The Escort”, Story Society, TBD
“Not Waste a Drop,” Dreams and Nightmares, May 2024 (with Beth Cato)
“The Sound, The Sound, The Sound,” Star*Line, TBD (with Beth Cato)
“Spiderwebs and Starlight,” Penumbric, TBD

2024

“Doorway”, Underside Stories, January 2024
“Bedtime Story,” Luna Station Quarterly, March 2024
“She Laughed”, Kaidankai, March 2024
“Doorway”, Kaidankai, March 2024
“The Last Time”, Kaidankai, March 2024
“Hush”, Kaidankai, March 2024
“Journeys”, Kaidankai, March 2024

2023

“Wait, Hope”, Star*Line, Winter 2023 (With Joseph Halden)
“The Deal”, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February 2023 (With Beth Cato)
“Lucky Shot”, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January/February 2023 (With Beth Cato)
“Birthday Cake”, Dreams and Nightmares, January 2023 (With Beth Cato)
“The Nothings”, Utopia Science Fiction, February 2023 (With Beth Cato)
“Three Years”, Polar Starlight #10, May 2023 (With Leslie Van Zwol)
“Breathe”, Polar Starlight #11, September 2023 (With Leslie Van Zwol)
“The Permanence of Stone”, Star*Line, Fall 2023 (With Beth Cato)
“Value Measure”, Dreams and Nightmares, September 2023 (With Joseph Halden)
“Ten-Four”, Polar Borealis #27, October 2023
“The Nothings”, Utopia Science Fiction, Five Year Anthology, December 2023 (With Beth Cato)
“Poltergeist”, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One, December 2023
“Breath Between Battles”, The Quiet Ones: Vol. 2, Issue 3 – The End, Part Two, December 2023 (With Beth Cato)

“Friction”, Underside Stories, September 2023
“Good News, Bad News”, Luna Station Quarterly, September 2023
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, Metastellar, September 2023
“Snake Bit”, Swords and Sorcery Magazine, February 2023 (With Jarrod K. Wade)

Tome of Demons Volume: III, Archvillain Games, January 2023 (With Gabrielle Harbowy and Jean Roix)

Saltwater Sorrows, Tyche Books, August 2023

Blindspots, Poise and Pen Publishing, June 2023 (Previously exclusive to my Patreon)

2022

Trenchcoats, Towers and Trolls, World Weaver Press, January 2022
Untethered, Poise and Pen Publishing, March 2022
Pirating Pups, Tyche Books, Summer 2022

Blindspots, Poise and Pen Publishing, May 2022 (Exclusive to my Patreon)

Prairie Spirit(s), Poise and Pen Publishing, October 2022 (Exclusive to my Patreon)

“True Story”, Neon Magazine, March 2022
“Minnows”, Neon Magazine, March 2022
“Foreshadowing”, Neon Magazine, March 2022
“Poltergeist”, Star*Line, March 2022
“Haunted House”, The Dread Machine, June 2022
“Night Sounds”, Diet Milk Magazine, Fall/Winter 2022
“The Afghan”, Polar Starlight #7, December 2022

“Ride Along”, Etherea Magazine, May 2022
“The Odin Stone”, Forgotten Lore, November 2022

2021

Clockwork, Curses and Coal, World Weaver Press, March 2021
Arcana, Poise and Pen Publishing, May 2021
Water: Selkies, Sirens and Sea Monsters, Tyche Books, August 2021
Dark Waters, Poise and Pen Publishing, September 2021
G is for Ghosts, Poise and Pen Publishing, October 2021​

One in the Hand, Magic and Mystery boxed set, Tyche Books, April 2021
One in the Hand, Poise and Pen Publishing, June 2021 (paperback and electronic, standalone)

“Don’t Change”, Star*Line, Summer 2021
“But you Mustn’t Look Back”, The Dread Machine, October 2021 (with Beth Cato)
“The Grotesque”, The Lost Librarian’s Grave, Redwood Press, October 2021
“Purple City”, Alternate Plains, Great Plains Publications, October 2021
“Two Loyal Dogs (and a hornhead in an apple tree!)”, Home for the Howlidays, Tyche Books, November 2021

2020

Eerie Edmonton, Dundurn Press, January 2020 (with Rona Anderson)
Hollow
, Tyche Books, March 2020
Shadows, Poise and Pen Publishing, December 2020

Swashbuckling Cats: Nine Lives on the Seven Seas, Tyche Books, May 2020
Air: Sylphs, Spirits and Swan Maidens, Tyche Books, August 2020
Hear Me Roar, Poise and Pen Publishing, September 2020

“he scores”, Star*Line, Spring 2020 (with Beth Cato)
“The Luck Eaters”, Star*Line, Summer 2020 (with Beth Cato)
“Grasshoppers and Mountain Cats”, Prairie Gothic, Prairie Soul Press, November 2020

2019

F is for Fairy, Poise and Pen Publishing, May 2019
Earth: Giants, Golems and Gargoyles, Tyche Books, August 2019
Grimm, Grit and Gasoline, World Weaver Press, September 2019

“Grampa Got Bit”, Horror Sleaze Trash, May 2019
“Avalanche”, Corvid Queen, August 2019
Blame it on the Bubble Gum”, In Places Between short story contest, IFWA, August 2019 (My story won first place)
“Maxwell”, Kzine, September 2019
“Fulcrum Point”, Dreams & Nightmares, September 2019
“No Affect”, Illumen, Autumn 2019
“She Laughed”, Haunted, Pen and Kink Publishing, September 2019

2018

E is for Evil, Poise and Pen Publishing, May 15, 2018
Prairie Starport, Poise and Pen Publishing, May 2018
Fire: Demons, Dragons and Djinns, Tyche Books, August 2018
Tesseracts Twenty-one: Nevertheless (co-edited with Greg Bechtel), EDGE Publishing, September 2018

2017

“Starry Night”, In Places Between short story contest, IFWA, August 2017 (My story won first place)

D is for Dinosaur, Poise and Pen Publishing, February 21, 2017
Equus, World Weaver Press, July 18, 2017
Haunted Hospitals (co-written with Mark Leslie), Dundurn Press, August, 2017
Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say, World Weaver Press, November 28, 2017

2016

“Sharper Than a Griffin’s Claw”, Women in Practical Armor, March 2016
“Hereditary Delusions”, Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, January 2016

C is for Chimera, Poise and Pen Publishing, April 2016
Sirens, World Weaver Press, April 2016

2015

“The Witch”, Plasma Frequency, January 2015
“Coming Storm”, Shroud Magazine, April 2015
“In Space No One Can Hear You QQ”, Grievous Angel, June 9, 2015
“When the Zombies Came”, Zombified III:Hazardous Material, June 2015

B is for Broken, Poise and Pen Publishing, May 2015
Corvidae, World Weaver Press, July 7, 2015
Scarecrow, World Weaver Press, August 4, 2015

Island of Crows, Niteblade Magazine, September 2015
What Happened Among the Stars, Niteblade Magazine, June 2015
All The Better, Niteblade Magazine, March 2015

2014

“Their Closet Existence”, Every Day Poets, January 14, 2014
“Hereditary Delusions”, Every Day Poets, February 18, 2014
“What Won’t Wait”, The Stray Branch, March 2014
“The Grotesque”, Bête Noire, April 2014
“Confessions”, Elektrik Milk Bath Press, June 2014
“Vampiric Fluff”, These Vampires Don’t Sparkle, August 2014
“Beneath”, 2014 Dwarf Stars Anthology, August 2014
“Matches”, Ruminate Magazine, August 2014
“Hold This Camel”, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, November 2014
“Broken”, Drunk on Writing: The Best of Write1Sub1, Volume 1, November 2014
“Golden Hour”, Dual Coast Magazine, November 2014
“Two Wrongs”, Dual Coast Magazine, November 2014
“A Chance to be Heard”, Page and Spine, December 2014
“In The Valley”, Page and Spine, December 2014
“The Other Side of the Door”, Kzine Issue #8, January 21, 2014
“Seedpaper”, Mythic Delirium, April 2014
“Waste Not”, Algernon, April 2014
“Share”, Trafficking in Magic/Magicking in Traffic, May 2014
“Shattered”, Kzine, Issue #9
“Memories”, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, November 2014

Fae, World Weaver Press, July 2014
A is for Apocalypse, Poise and Pen Publishing
Waste Not (And Other Funny Zombie Stories), Poise and Pen Publishing
White Noise, Poise and Pen Publishing

Vampyrics, Niteblade Magazine, December 2014
Porcelain Doll, Niteblade Magazine, September 2014
Looking-Glass Lover, Niteblade Magazine, June 2014
The Mermaid at Sea World, Niteblade Magazine, March 2014

2013

“Bedtime Story”, Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast, October 2013
“Feeders”, Bête Noire, August 2013
“Waste Not”, Stupefying Stories Showcase, July 2013
“Gopher Season”, Fiction 365, June 17, 2013
“Sea and Sky”, (co-written with Jonathan C. Parrish), Masked Mosaic, Tyche Books, February 2013
“Crimes Against Humanity”, The WiFiles, January 2013
“Mary Lee”, Every Day Poets, October 1, 2013
“Hold This Camel”, The Germ, September 2013
“New Arrival”, Every Day Poets, September 3, 2013
“Patchwork Quilt”, Westward Quarterly, August 2013
“My Whole World”, Every Day Poets, July 7, 2013
“Alien Skin Creme”, Every Day Poets, May 23, 2013
“The Day After”, Napalm and Novocain, May 15, 2013
“Lost Miners”, Seven by Twenty, May 9, 2013
“Rest”, Every Day Poets, March 25, 2013
“Damage”, Bête Noire, February 28, 2013
“Beneath”, Every Day Poets, February 25, 2013
“Choice”, Disturbed Digest, December 2013
“Potty Party Girl”, Gold Dust Magazine, December 2013

Metastasis, Wolfsinger Publications, October 15, 2013

A Fixer-Upper, Niteblade Magazine, December 2013
Alice Underground, Niteblade Magazine, September 2013
Forbidden Island, Niteblade Magazine, June 2013
Blodeuwedd, Niteblade Magazine, March 2013

2012

Aphanasian Stories, Poise and Pen Publishing, 2012

“Character”, The Scareald, October 2012
“Sort of Like a Cat”, Every Day Poets, October 30, 2012
“Lovers”, Seven by Twenty, September 18, 2012
“Broken”, Trembles, September 2012
“Change is Good”, Seven by Twenty, September 7, 2012
“Lizabeth”, The Glass Coin, August 15, 2012
“Obscured”, Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing, ChiZine Publications and Tightrope Books, July 2012
“Prank Call?”, Illumen, May 2012
“Memories”, The best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal 2012, Emergent Publishing, December 2012
“Memories”, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, October 2012
“…Oh My!”, Kzine, September 2012

The Language of Flowers, Niteblade Magazine, December 2012
Seeds, Niteblade Magazine, September 2012
Carnivoyeur, Niteblade Magazine, June 2012
Lycanthropist, Niteblade Magazine, March 2012

2011

“Should I Die…”, Sex And Murder Magazine, January 2011
“Loneliness”, Golden Visions Magazine, January 2011
“Slippery When Wet”, Golden Visions Magazine, January 2001
“Obscured”, Bête Noire, April 2011
“Cover Up”, Eclectic Flash, September 2011
“White Noise”, Zombiefied, September 2011
“The Bunker”, Dark Chaos, October 2011
“Genesis”, Dark Chaos, October 2011
“Poetry is Intimidating”, Blood and Spades: Poets of the Dark Side, HWA Newsletter, July 2011
“Monster Mythbusting: Haitian Zombies”, Dark Moon Digest, Issue #2
“Monster Mythbusting: Jaws”, Dark Moon Digest, Issue #3

Something Beautiful, Lulu publishing, June 2011

Poetry Special Issue, Niteblade Magazine, December 2011
Soul of a Victorian, Niteblade Magazine, September 2011
Propaganda, Niteblade Magazine, June 2011
First Loves for the First Time, Niteblade Magazine, March 2011

2010

“After the Storm”, Tales from the Zombie War, October 2010
“Slippery When Wet”, Static Movement, October 2010
“Hunger”, Demonminds 2010 Halloween Edition, October 2010
“Attachment”, Star*Line, September 2010
“Fluffy”, Daikaijuzine, June 21, 2010
“Change is Good”, Scifaikuest, May 2010 print issue
“White Noise”, Everyday Weirdness, June 2010
“Alone”, Mystic Signals, May 2010
“Alone”, Sorcerous Signals, May 2010
“Fur to Suit”, House Of Horror Issue 10, Spring 2010
“Explosion”, Everyday Weirdness, February 16, 2010
“Last Thoughts”, Star*Line, December 2010
“Slippery When Wet”, Body Parts and Coal Dust, December 2010
“Dive”, Flashes in the Dark, January 5, 2010
Six Word Story, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, Harper Perennial, January 5, 2010

Shades of Green, Sam’s Dot Publishing, February 1, 2010

Until the Light Fades, Niteblade Magazine, December 2010
Rosewinter, Niteblade Magazine, September 2010
Flea Market Zombies, Niteblade Magazine, June 2010
The Marionette, Niteblade Magazine, March 2010

2009

“Lovers”, The 2009 Rhysling Anthology, The Science Fiction Poetry Association
“Maybe Not…”, Everyday Weirdness, December 22, 2009
“Alien Flu”, Star*Line, September 2009
“Untitled Rictameter”, Star*Line, September 2009
“Untitled Haiku”, Aoife’s Kiss, September 2009
“Clockwork Dreams”, Everyday Weirdness, March 5, 2009
“Fae”, Lorlei Signal, July 2009
“Guilt”, Yellow Mama, June 15, 2009
“Ballerina”, Every Day Poets, January 18, 2009
“Daddy”, Every Day Poets, February 3, 2009
“Lycantrick”, Scattered Verses, Moonlit Curses, May 20, 2009
“Lycanthroku”, Scattered Verses, Moonlit Curses, May 20, 2009
“Zonnet”, Scattered Verses, Moonlit Curses, May 20, 2009
“The Sepultress”, Scattered Verses, Moonlit Curses, May 20, 2009
“Hell Tempted Me”, Yellow Mama, August 15, 2009
“Why are the Clocks Melting?”, Every Day Fiction, July 18, 2009
“How It’s Supposed To Be”, The Legendary, June 20, 2009
“There’s Always a Catch”, Sorcerous Signals, May 2009
“There’s Always a Catch”, Mystic Signals 2, May 2009
“Rusty Tears”, Outshine, March 2009
“The Legend of the First Reptar”, Sonar4, March 2009
“One Day on Earth”, Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), January 2009

Sister Margaret, Eternal Press, April 7, 2009

Nothing to Dread, Niteblade Magazine, December 2009
Dead Teenagers at Make-out Point, Niteblade Magazine, September 2009
Of Warmth, Of Dragons, Niteblade Magazine, June 2009
Sentry, Niteblade Magazine, March 2009

2008

“An Angry Old Man”, The Shine Journal, December 2008
“Headache”, The Shine Journal, December 2008
“Lovers”, Star*Line, Fall 2008
“Poor Zombie”, The Monsters Next Door, September 2008
“The Color of Shame”, The Monsters Next Door, September 2008
“Vampiric Fluff”, The Monsters Next Door, September 2008
“The Sepultress”, The Monsters Next Door, September 2008
“A House but not a Home”, The Shine Journal, June 2008
“Inspiration”, NewMyths, June 2008
“Acrostic”, Byline Magazine, March 2008
“Writing”, Adventures For The Average Woman, March 2008
“Coffee”, Shine, January 2008
“Assumptions”, The Shine Journal, December 2008
“The Question”, The Harrow. December 2008
“Swapped”, Mississippi Crow, November 2008
“Skitter, Skitter”, Shiny, October 31, 2008
“Axe”, Demon Minds, Halloween 2008 Issue
“Spoiled Picnic”, Abominations: Shroud Publishing Anthology
“Cuppa”, Blood Moon Rising, July 2008
“Sheltered”, The Shine Journal, June 2008
“Wrong Turn”, Arcane Whispers: The Best of Sorcerous Signals, May 15, 2008
“Ironic Angst”, Every Day Fiction, April 14, 2008
“Denouement”, Adventures For The Average Woman, March 2008
“Athabasca Falls”, Apollo’s Lyre, February 2008
Guest-Wrote the Dark Poets Column, HWA Newsletter, February 2008
“Not So Smart”, Shine, January 2008
“Denouement”, Cautionary Tale, January 2008

Oh, Christmas Tree, Niteblade Magazine, December 2008
Lost Innocence, Niteblade Magazine, September 2008
The Gnome’s Spectacles, Niteblade Magazine, June 2008
The Minotaur’s Breath, Niteblade Magazine, March 2008

2007

“The Sepultress”, NewMyths.Com, December 2007
“Cock-a-Roach”, Poets Against War, August 2007
“Lazy”, La Fenetre, July 11, 2007
“Ms. Chong’s Room”, La Fenetre, July 11, 2007
“Sandcastle #5”, Static Movement, July 2007
“Sandcastle #5”, SHINE, May 2007
“Vampiric Fluff”, Static Movement, April 2007
“Vampiric Fluff”, Adventures for an Average Woman, February 2007
“They Found the Dog First”, Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), December 6, 2007
“Sister Margaret”, Pantechnicon, December 2007
“The Doll”, Burst Literary Ezine, Fall 2007
“Wrong Turn”, Sorcerous Signals, November 2007
“Sex on the Beach”, SHINE!, October 2007
“Not So Smart”, The Flask Review, September 2007
“Case Closed”, Barfing Frog Press, June 2007
“This Year’s Toy”, DiddleDog, Fall 2007
“Fatherhood”, IdeaGems, Summer 2007
“Whatcha Gonna Do?”, Skyline Magazine, Summer 2007
“Sheltered”, Purpose, Summer 2007
“How To Save The World”, Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), June 2007
“Big Bear”, T-Zero, May 2007
“A Dozen Things”, Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), May 2007
“WMDs”, SHINE, May 1, 2007
“A Merry Christmas”, Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), March 1, 2007
“Fatherhood”, SHINE, February 1, 2007
“A Merry Christmas”, Flash Flooding, January 15, 2007
“Fatherhood”, Long Story Short, January 7, 2007

Carousel, Niteblade Magazine, December 2007
Dark Angel, Niteblade Magazine, September 2007

2006

“Sister Margaret”, WildChildPublishing.Com, October 152006
“Sandcastle #5”, WildChildPublishing.Com, November 15, 2006
“Snowflakes”, The Storyteller, September/October/November 2006

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