anthologies and magazine issues
available for purchase - hard copy and digital

(Due to several anthologies being limited by print runs - especially in the pre-Kindle days before 2010 - this isn't an exhaustive list. I will have a collection of all my short stories available in 2020 so please check back soon!)

MONSTROUS HEART 

A gothic tale of magic, monsters, dark secrets and forbidden love at the wild edge of the world...

Out March 31st 2020.

(Website has a comprehensive list of the digital stores)

best of andromeda spaceways 2018

Limited print-only edition available for sale from the Andromeda Spaceways website.

"A CODE FOR HOPE AND SILENCE" - Andromeda SPACEWAYS # 73

Raging against the machine, pizza goon, and an algorithm for love.

A version of this story placed second in the 2017 SCI FI LONDON 48 HOUR Flash Fiction competition, where it was titled "Honour Is Everything"

"the one who walks the permanent way" - A Hand of Knaves


A steampunk tale about machines, human labour, and a mythical man who walks the Permanent Way.

"Mr Mycelium" - Ecopunk!


A biotech retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, where our Jack collects some  black market fungus spores in return for selling his mother's transgenic cow. Disaster ensues... or does it?

(Nominated for the 2018 Australian Ditmar Awards - Best Short Story)

“The Autumn Dog Cannot Live To Spring” -
In Your Face

In a book containing twenty-two original and reprinted speculative fiction stories dealing with provocative themes, "The Autumn Dog Cannot Live To Spring" is a story about death - and what happens when you dig up last year's dog...

(Nominated for the 2017 Aurealis Awards  - Best Science Fiction Short Story
Won 2013 Scarlet Stiletto Crime Fiction "Crossed Genres" Award)

“Yard” - Use Only As Directed

"A varied mix of 14 speculative fiction stories by some of the best Australian and New Zealand authors in the genre in settings that range from the back yard to the depths of space."

Mine is in the back yard! Inspired a little by our old house.

"The 92" - CSFG's *NEXT* Anthology

"Sequence. Succession. Cause and effect.
What happened. Next."

No prizes here, but this story is the one that most people have come up and told me they really "loved" the best.  Another "inspired by true events" demonic tale on VFL football, and my favourite.

“Warchalking” (with Paul Haines) -  Doorways for the Dispossessed, short fiction by Paul Haines

This one we co-wrote during the final week of the Clarion South Writer's Workshop in 2004. It's a bit uneven, we were all suffering from a six-week hangover, but still, we got it done.  Jack Dann will probably like to claim credit for this story's existence, as he made us write it! Sadly, Paul passed away in 2012, however his lovely funeral made an dark appearance in "The 92" and I rather thought his ghost was around for one last burst of inspiration...