Fiction Index
Personal Favorites
In reverse chronological order, the pieces that I’m most fond of.
- “The Abomination of Corvintown”.
- “Morodin and the Thorn of Nothing”.
- “Flickerings”.
- “Still in the City”
- “Saeka and the Wraith I”.
- S0E1, Part One.
- All four parts of “Coup”: 1 2 3 4.
- “Saeka and the Pillars”.
- “Chosen”.
- “The Case of Curious Eddy”.
- “Near the Border”.
- “Desert Walk”.
- “Wishes”.
- “That Little Bastard”.
- “A Tree on the Path”.
- “The Gift”.
- “Announcement”.
- pafib #2.
- For Juliana/Sex, Skating and Nanobots in 300 Words.
- “A City Tale”.
- “TTCS”.
Works I’ve included as favorites above are marked with an asterisk below.
City Nights
“City Nights” is my bad working title for a loosely-connected series of short stories I started writing in 1993.
- “TTCS” *.
- “Rondo”.
- “Lynner”.
- “A City Tale” *.
- “A Pointed Visit”.
Science Fiction Novel Microfiction
In September 2006 I decided to rewrite my science fiction novel (then a sprawling 180,000–200,000-word first draft) as a series of 30 microfiction episodes, each alternating between 300 and 250 words in length.
- 0: Party, Success, Power, Status, Greed.
- 1: Assassins, Gardens, Ouster, Board, Escape.
- 2: Trapped, Ship, Despair, Choice, Alone.
- 3: Abuse, Contract, Surprise, Capture, Anger.
- 4: Decadence, Power, Excess, Competition, Impunity.
- 5: Despair, Desperation, Fantasy, Obsession, Records.
- 6: Fever, Persistence, Disappointment, Luck, Surprise.
- 7: Plague, Mystery, Panic, Rebellion, Power.
- 8: Scavenger, Ship, Grave, Race, Payment.
- 9: Pursuit, Competence, Indifference, Regulations, Unease.
- 10: Captive, Negotiation, Passenger, Transport, Doubt.
- 11: Blackmail, Discussion, Assumptions, Demands, Complications.
- 12: Reward, Hunt, Research, Guess, Discovery.
- 13: Solitude, Insanity, Company, Capture, Confusion.
- 14: Negotiation, Wealth, Threat, Agreement, Destination.
- 15: Asteroid, Base, Money, Surveillance, Flight.
- 16: Information, Questions, Confusion, Opportunity, Idea.
- 17: Obstacle, Friction, Evaluation, Recognition, Decision.
- 18: Unease, Contingency, Disagreement, Risk, Corner.
- 19: Trust, Determination, Dilemma, Odds, Proposal.
- 20: Assignment, Anomaly, Misgivings, Resentment, Approach.
- 21: Fear, Agreement, Contacts, Hopes, Plan.
- 22: Foray, Disguise, Welcome, Aid, Exit.
- 23: Gamble, Killing, Speed, Luck, Flight.
- 24: Orbit, Evasion, Request, Intervention, Regulations.
- 25: Anger, Review, Trail, Politics, Insight.
- 26: Prediction, Inconsistency, Meeting, Observation, Confrontation.
- 27: Capture, Dismay, Assumption, Principle, Resignation.
- 28: News, Shock, Isolation, Reversal, Flight.
- 29: Naivety, Incredulity, Anger, Bitterness, Escape.
‘Coup’
A fantasy story in four parts.
Saeka
Just one-and-a-half stories for now, but I’m fairly sure there will be more.
Q’Rith
Stories from my fantasy roleplaying setting.
Miscellany
Stories whose genre is unclear to me that aren’t part of some larger world or narrative.
- “The Distance”.
- Impressions of the Grand Canyon near Supai (not actually fiction, this).
- Dream, 2012-05-05 04:21.
- “Overlay”.
- “Stillness”.
- “Estranged”.
- “One Day”.
- “Guidance”.
- “Waiting to Drive”.
- “Imagination”.
- “An Urgent Request”.
- “Chosen” *.
- “The Case of Curious Eddy” *.
- “Desert Walk” *.
- “That Little Bastard” *.
- “Touching the Pacific”.
- “The Palace of the Unencumbered”.
- “A Short Reprieve”.
- “A Tree on the Path” *.
- “Flow Episode”.
- “Announcement” *.
Miscellaneous Fantasy
Stories I think of as being in the fantasy genre that aren’t part of some larger world or narrative.
Miscellaneous Science Fiction
Stories I think of as being in the science fiction genre that aren’t part of some larger world or narrative.
City Vignettes
These pieces have some thematic links and Graham insists they’re similar enough to each other and distinct enough from my other writing to warrant their own category.
- Dublin Foxes (non-fiction).
- “Yellow, Red”.
- “Still in the City” *.
- “Rain Bridge”.
pafib
A series of experimental fiction pieces based on this quotation:
“possible attitudes found in books 1) I don’t know what’s happening to me 2) what does it mean? 3) seized with the deepest sadness, I know not why 4) I am lost, my head whirls, I know not where I am 5) I lose myself 6) I ask you, what have I come to? 7) I no longer know where I am, what is this country? 8) had I fallen from the skies, I could not be more giddy 9) a mixture of pleasure and confusion, that is my state 10) where am I, and when will this end? 11) what shall I do? I do not know where I am”
—p74. Donald Barthelme. “Alice”. Sixty Stories. New York: Penguin, 1993. 68–75.
Snippets
Pieces of larger works that may or may not end up being written.