Bibliography

“The Porter Smiled”, NoSleep Podcast (Season 20, Episode 24)

“It was almost a relief when the Porter finally came for us. I woke up in the middle of the night and the room was all lit up in that sodium glow. Our cat Skittles was hissing at the silhouette of the Porter, who stood motionless in the Doorway to the bathroom.”

“Replay Boomer”, Grist (July 2023)

With climate change making the future look bleak, a father struggles to understand his teen’s participation in a movement of young people intent on reliving the past.

“If The Righteous Wished, They Could Create a World”, Other Covenants (Ben Yehuda, 2022)

“Five millennia of rabbinical experimentation had uncovered only a few working rituals. In the pre-modern era a composition like this would have taken a master Rabbi a day of painstaking work, and a single misshapen stroke would have rendered it unusable. Today, the Israeli Space Agency's computers could spit out a perfect recipe in seconds.”

“Transub-Stan-Tiation”, Brave New Worlds (Zombies Need Brains, 2022)

“By the time the printer ran out of feedstock there were eighty-nine of me. Numbering ourselves was pointless, I agreed on that. I agreed on a lot.”

“The Dandelion Man”, The Drabblecast #409 (Podcast)

“Teo and Paulus stood at the shore of the pampas, where the grass grew twice as tall as a man. They were naked, and the pampero raised goosebumps on their skin.”

"Utility", Compelling Science Fiction #12

“Major Rick Bedlam, last unambiguous hero of the pre-transition USA and leader of the first, and only, manned mission to Proxima Centauri way back in 2087. A mission that Extract-of-Malt had quite forgotten about, and that was due to return around-about….now.”

“Cheek by Jowl”, Going Down Swinging #39

“As for how the Schrödinger machines worked, the best anyone had been able to explain to her had been that the whole system operated on ‘Uncertainty’. It had that in common with the rest of London’s rental market, at least.”

"Dune Time", Tor.com (April 2016)

"In the old days, caravans used to take fifty two days to cross the Sahara. Out there, it’s just you and God. The Tuareg say that the journey puts you in a trance, that you can wake up in the evening and not remember anything from the day. They call it Dune Time."

  • Nominated for the 2016 Aurealis Awards for Best Fantasy and Best Young Adult story

 

"Flying the Coop", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #182

"The hut awkwardly navigated a twist in the road and turned towards the saltworks, disappearing from view except for its misshapen chimney bobbing above the modest rooftops. Its shuffling footsteps faded, and Nadia regretfully returned to the problem of her father’s corpse."

 

"Running Wild", Aurealis #54

"All Locky could see was a grid of suburban homes beneath the cloudless blue sky. Each was surrounded by fences, with no gates or doors to connect them to their neighbours. They had the ghostly air of a school during the weekend."

 

"The Tale of the Aggrieved Astrologer", Beneath Ceaseless Skies #101

"Ho Bian first suspected there was disorder in the heavens on the day that he was unable to rise to the occasion for his favorite concubine. He had swallowed his potency elixir beforehand as usual, but at the moment of truth he wilted like a lotus in the midsummer heat."

  • Reprinted in Seers: Ten Tales of Clairvoyance, edited by Rayne Hall.

 

"The Statues of Melbourne", Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #56

"I don’t remember exactly what I thought then, back before we realised the scale of the thing. I think I assumed it was some kind of underground art movement - guerrilla sculpture, you know?"

  • Reprinted in Award Winning Australian Writing 2012, edited by Adolfo Aranjuez

  • Winner of the Katharine Susannah Prichard Speculative Fiction

  • Nominated for the 2012 Aurealis Award for Young Adult Short Story