This book is a collection of my short solo fiction--that is, non-series, non-collaborative. It contains a wide range of stories from science fiction to fantasy, humor to horror, tragic to uplifting. The table of contents is as follows:

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• Sweet Dreams, Melissa
  (this is my most widely anthologized story)

• The Girls on USSF 193
  (my very first published story)

• Nice Place to Visit

• When There's No Man Around

• Xenophobe

• Grim Fairy Tale

• Of Love, Free Will, and Gray Squirrels on a Summer Evening

• Stubborn

• But As A Soldier, For His Country
  (this story was later expanded into my novel The Eternity Brigade)

• The World Where Wishes Worked
  (this was adapted into a very nice children's play)

• Apollyon Ex Machina

• Prelude to a Symphony of Unborn Shouts

• Portrait of the Artist as a Young God

• The Last Ghost
  (a Nebula Award finalist)

• Haunted Houses

 

This is all my science fiction/fantasy short work, with a few exceptions. A few excerpts from the Parsina Saga books were published independently as novelettes. My five "Angel in Black" fantasy stories are collected in a book called, not surprisingly, Angel in Black. My two (so far) Deborah Rabinowitz sf/mystery stories, "The Height of Intrigue" and "The Sword Unswayed," are gathered into a book called Alien Murders. There are some stories done in collaboration with others (Kathleen Sky, C.F. Hensel, and Grant Carrington) that aren't here. And there's one story ("Constance and the Sex Machine") that is not to be scheduled for republication until sometime after the sun goes nova -- if then.