Short Fiction

Interzone is really spoiling me when it publishes Jason Sanford so regularly. As far as I’m concerned, they couldn’t publish too much of this author if they named it Jason Sanford’s Science Fiction Magazine.
— Sam Tomaino at SFRevu

“Little Fathers of Darkness” (A Plague Birds story)

“Life in the Competitive Gaming World of AI-Human Griefing”

  • Short story in A Roll of the Dice, the 2023 Origins Game Fair anthology.

“Am I The Love?”

Blood Grains Scream in Memories

  • Novella in the Feb. 2022 special science-fantasy issue of Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

“As We Stand and Pray”

The Dust of Giant Radioactive Lizards

"The Wheels on the Torture Bus Go Round and Round"

  • Short story released in Tales from the Trunk.

Whistle Posts of Forgotten Railroads”

The Eight-Thousanders

Where the World Ends Without Us

“A Summary of Our Neighborhood’s Salvation After the Storm”

"The Emotionless, in Love"

"Nine Lattices of Sargasso"

"Toppers"

"May Our Voices Sing Like Blood from Open Wounds"

"Blood Grains Speak Through Memories"

"Death Flowers of Never-Forgotten Love"

"Duller's Peace"

"What Is Sand but Earth Purified?"

"We Eat the Hearts that Come for You"

"Paprika"

  • Novelette in issue 249 (Nov./Dec. 2013) of Interzone.

  • Runner-up in the 2013 Interzone Readers' Poll.

  • Translated in the Czech SF magazine XB-1.

  • Being translated into Chinese and released as a book by Douban Read.

  • Podcast and reprinted on EscapePod.

  • Honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 31st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.

"Monday's Monk"

"Mirrorblink"

  • Novelette in issue 243 (Nov./Dec. 2012) of Interzone.

  • Runner-up in the 2012 Interzone Readers' Poll.

  • Translated in the Czech SF magazine XB-1.

  • Being translated into Chinese and released as a book by Douban Read.

  • Honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 30th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.

"Heaven's Touch"

"The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues"

"Her Scientifiction, Far Future, Medieval Fantasy"

  • Novelette in issue 234 (May/June 2011) of Interzone.

  • Honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 29th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.

"The Blue Room"

"The Never Never Wizard of Apalachicola"

  • Cover story in Intergalactic Medicine Show issue 20.

  • Reprinted in Intergalactic Medicine Show Awards Anthology, Vol. I.

  • Translated in the French literary journal Le Frisson Esthetique.

  • Honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 28th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.

"Memoria"

"Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep"

"Millisent Ka Plays in Realtime"

  • Originally published in issue 231 (Nov./Dec. 2010) of Interzone.

  • Translated in the Russian magazine ESLI (IF).

"Plague Birds"

"A Twenty-First Century Fairy Love Story"

  • Originally published in Tales of the Unanticipated, issue 30, spring 2010.

"Cwazy"

  • Originally published in OCHO #28, the print companion to the literary and arts magazine MiPOesias. This special issue was edited by Kirk Curnutt. Fall 2009.

"Into the Depths of Illuminated Seas"

  • Originally published in Interzone, issue 226 (Jan./Feb. 2010).

  • Placed third in the 2010 Interzone Readers' Poll.

  • An earlier version of the story was published in issue 2 of Tales of Moreauvia

  • Reprinted in StarShipSofa Stories, Volume 2.

  • Translated in the Czech SF magazine XB-1.

"Here We Are, Falling Through Shadows"

  • Originally published in issue 225 (Nov./Dec. 2009) of Interzone.

  • Reprinted in Apex Magazine and translated in the Czech SF magazine Ikarie, the Spanish anthology Cuentos para Algernon: Year III, and the French anthology Ténèbres.

  • Honorable mention in The Year's Best Science Fiction Stories, 27th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois.

"Sublimation Angels"

"When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees"

"The Ships Like Clouds, Risen By Their Rain"

"Where Away You Fall"

"Book Scouts of the Galactic Rim" 

"Freelanga"

"Rumspringa"

  • Originally published in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 5, July 2007.

  • Reprinted in the anthology Beyond the Sun.


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