Short Stories
Listed below are the stories of mine that other people have published. Some of them are free. They are listed chronologically, so the most recent publications will be at the bottom of this page. I hope that you enjoy them. And hey, if you would like to commission a story from me, which is how many of these stories began, just get in touch via the comment form up top!
- “In Which Joe and Laurie Save Rock n’ Roll” Tesseracts Eleven (Honourable Mention, Year’s Best Science Fiction 2007)
- “Fitting A New Suit” (free) FLURB #6
- “ßoyfriend” (free) WorldChanging Canada, Escape Pod
- “Off-Track Betting” (free) FLURB #7
- “The Chair” Nature
- “Milk+” (free) The Orphan #2
- “Ishin” Shine: An Anthology of Optimistic SF
- “Zombies, Condoms and Shenzhen: The Surprising Link Between the Undead and The Unborn” (free) Flurb #10
- “The Education of Junior Number 12” (free) Angry Robot Books (also available in Year’s Best SF 17 and Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing)
- “Photographic Memory” in The Tomorrow Project: Imagining the Future and Building It
- “Social Services” in An Aura of Familiarity: The Coming Age of Networked Matter
- “Come From Away” in Upgraded
- By the Time We Get to Arizona” in The Hieroglyph Anthology
- “Memento Mori” in Meeting Infinity
- “The Dreams in the Bitch House” in Postscripts to Darkness
- “Panic City” in Cyber World: Tales of Humanity’s Tomorrow
- “Thieving Magpie” in Eclipse Phase: After the Fall
- “Domestic Violence” (free) in Slate
- “Tierra y Libertad” (free) in MIT Technology Review
- “Withnail & Us” (free) in Toronto 2033
- “Blue Lotus” (free) in Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology
- “Porcelain Claws in Cinnamon Earth” (free) in Avatars, Inc
- “Orphan Black, the Next Chapter [Episodes 5 &8]” at SerialBox
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- An interview on why I’m a science fiction writer
- A profile of me in The Globe and Mail
Nonfiction
For a while I was a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen, a PostMedia publication. You can read my columns here.