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Vehicle

This isn't a true story except metaphorically, but it's a pretty important one.

(26 July 2008)

Broken John and Hekka

Yeah, leave them because too scared to deal with what would come out of the ground if you disturbed the tree roots holding it down! (31 October 2006)

Sparrow Apples

He gathered several and stuck them into a foil-lined saddle bag anyway, though. (1 December 2005)

The delivery man and his death

If you could only understand what counts as an invitation anymore, well. (29 November 2005)

They don't like geneticists

The mani is actually supposed to go right across the Solar disc as viewed from Earth, and you bet the client will be watching it with a telescope, so there's no possibility of fudging it. (30 November 2004)

Will McCarthy and the Screaming Avocados

Eighteen lives all together counting the kitten as nine even though he was very small. (9 November 2004)

Race

I wonder why the Turtle thinks this is so important? (21 October 2004)

The Number 13 Road

You don't even want to have to ask? You want to be asked? Well, now we're going to go a step past that. (31 October 2003)

Sad-Eyed Joe

There are those who say he studied too hard, solved a forbidden equation, and opened a gateway to a universe of eternal torment and non-convergence! (31 October 2002)

It only takes NAND

You probably think we huddle up in our nests, conserving warmth and moving very slowly, living on stored food, and it's true that those of you who think you have us domesticated can open the frames and look in and think you see us. (10 October 2002)

Henry and Eliza

Henry's gaze slid hungrily down the curves of Eliza's naked silicone body. His five grand had been well spent, oh yes. (7 June 2002)

Row of pins

The film loop stops repeating and I see her wrist pulled out of my hands, she's pulling her wrist from my hands, and the record ends. (17 April 2002)

Eight knights of the dragon

Maybe the eight knights of the dragon had real flesh and blood like you and me. (20 February 2002)

The Martian opinion

Normally, he'd have been greeted with boos and thrown drinking glasses, but right now everyone wanted to hear the Martian opinion on the Human's rash claims. (29 December 2001)

The importance of open-source drivers

hermaphrodite parasite space worm (5 May 2001)

Ramen

One night at the convenience store. (30 March 2001)

Journal of Intercelestial Fly Fishing (2) "Lady Midnight"

Wherein the Journal editors indulge a flight of fancy. (9 March 2001)

Journal of Intercelestial Fly Fishing (1) "A curious catch"

Wherein Dm. Anonymous comments on her illegal fishery. (9 March 2001)

The Other channels

the unnumbered ones that they don't list in TV Guide. (26 January 2001)

The Reverend John Pickett and the damage done

Welcome, everyone, to the God Is Dead Church. (9 December 2000)

Merry Halloween, Z39.50

We decided the whole thing had been a practical joke and didn't give it any more thought. (31 October 2000)

The Hose Thief

Good God, small boy, you're a good kid. (27 June 2000)

Yon and Tinu

Not everyone who lives in the forest is human. (23 April 2000)

A Halloween observance

Halloween in my home town. (1 January 2000)

Kansas City Standard Blues

A blues story, featuring outdated communications technology. (26 April 1999)

He lei nalu ho`okahi

A soliton wreath: science fiction about dying languages and network protocols. (1 December 1998)

Notes War

A war story about groupware. (10 April 1998)

Chains

It can be more ordinary than you think. (27 August 1997)

Mistakenly thought to be djinn

A short story explaining the true origins of the Necronomicon. (3 July 1997)

Light and Speed

SF short story about superluminal travel and a suicide cult. (2 February 1997)

Freezing spirits of Air

An SF/fantasy short story about magic and cryonics. (4 April 1996)