Short Stories

Quick links

• Book editions of these stories
• Science fiction and fantasy
• Podcasts
• Jeremiah (short novel)
• Other 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

Science fiction and fantasy

"What Is Sand but Earth Purified?"

• Short story forthcoming in the Oct./Nov. 2014 double issue of Asimov's Science Fiction.

"We Eat the Hearts that Come for You"

• Novelette in the anthology Bless Your Mechanical Heart, edited by Jennifer Brozek.

"Paprika"

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

"Monday's Monk"

• Novelette in Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2013.
• Named to the 2013 Locus Recommended Reading List.
• Named to Lois Tilton's Locus Magazine year's best list.
• Named to the Tangent Online recommended reading list of 2013.
• Reprinted in the Polish SF magazine Nowa Fantastyka
• Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine XB-1.

"Mirrorblink"

• Novelette in issue 243 (Nov./Dec. 2012) of Interzone.
• Won 2nd place in 2012 Interzone Readers' Poll.
• Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine XB-1.

"Heaven's Touch"

• Novelette in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2012.
• Named to the Locus 2012 Recommended Reading List. 
• Reprinted in the Polish SF magazine Nowa Fantastyka
• Reprinted in Czech SF magazine XB-1.

"The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plagues"

• Novelette in issue 236 (Sept./Oct. 2011) of Interzone.
• Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine XB-1.
• Ranked 3rd in XB-1's annual contest of the best foreign SF stories of the year.
• Finalist for the 2012 Parsec Awards.

"Her Scientifiction, Far Future, Medieval Fantasy"

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

"The Blue Room"

• Short story in Daily Science Fiction, April 1, 2011.

"The Never Never Wizard of Apalachicola"

• Cover story in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show issue 20.
• Reprinted in the French literary journal Le Frisson Esthetique.

"Memoria"

• Originally published in issue 231 (Nov./Dec. 2010) of Interzone.
• Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine XB-1.
• Ranked 5th in XB-1's annual contest of the best foreign SF stories of the year.

"Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep"

• Originally published in issue 231 (Nov./Dec. 2010) of Interzone.
• Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.

"Millisent Ka Plays in Realtime"

• Originally published in issue 231 (Nov./Dec. 2010) of Interzone.
• Reprinted in the Russian magazine ESLI (IF).

"Plague Birds"

• Originally published in issue 228 (May/June 2010) of Interzone.
• Co-winner of the 2010 Interzone Readers' Poll.
• Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine XB-1and the Chinese SF magazine New Realms of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
• Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.
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"A Twenty-First Century Fairy Love Story"

• Originally published in Tales of the Unanticipated, issue 30, spring 2010.
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"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.
• Reprinted 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, Czech SF magazine Ikarie and the French book anthology Ténèbres.

"Sublimation Angels"

• Self-contained novella originally published in issue 224 (Sept./Oct. 2009) of Interzone.
• Finalist for the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novella.
• Winner of the 2009 Interzone Readers' Poll.
• Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine Ikarie and the Chinese magazine Science Fiction World.
• Podcast on StarShipSofa:
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

"When Thorns Are The Tips Of Trees"

• Originally published in Interzone, issue 219, Dec. 2008.
• Winner of the 2008 Interzone Readers Poll.
• Podcast on StarShipSofa, May 2009.
• Reprinted in Apex Magazine, the Czech SF magazine Ikarie, the Russian magazine ESLI (IF), and the Chinese SF magazine New Realms of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

"The Ships Like Clouds, Risen By Their Rain"

• Originally published in Interzone, issue 217, Aug. 2008.
• Reprinted in Year's Best SF 14, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
• Reprinted in the Czech SF magazine Ikarie, Russian magazine ESLI (IF), and Chinese SF magazines New Realms of Fantasy and Science Fiction and New Science Fiction.

"Where Away You Fall"

• Originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Dec. 2008.

"Book Scouts of the Galactic Rim"

• Originally published in Menda City Review, Dec. 2007
• Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine

"Freelanga"

• Originally published in the anthology I Am This Meat, 2007
• Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.

"Rumspringa"

• Originally published in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue 5, July 2007.
• Reprinted in the anthology Beyond the Sun.

"For Aging Kids Who Dream of Star Treks"

• Originally published in Tales of the Unanticipated, April 2002

Podcasts

• Book Scouts of the Galactic Rim on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine
• Freelanga on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine
• Maps of the Bible on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine
• Peacemaker, Peacemaker, Little Bo Peep on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine
• Plague Birds on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine
• The Ever-Dreaming Verdict of Plague on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine
• The Ships Like Clouds, Risen by Their Rain on StarShipSofa
• Novella Sublimation Angels on StarShipSofa
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • When Thorns Are the Tips of Trees on StarShipSofa
  • The Never Never Wizard of Apalachicola on StarShipSofa
  • Into The Depths of Illuminated Seas on StarShipSofa

Jeremiah (a short novel in four parts):

• Prologue: "Maps of the Bible"
• Monsters and Critics, spring 2008
  • Podcast on Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine.
  • Part 1: "Cold Pelts"
  • Beloit Fiction Journal, spring 2000; reprinted in Monsters and Critics summer 2007
  • Part 2: "One Side, Two Weeks, One Bathroom"
  • Monsters and Critics summer 2007
  • Part 3: "Water Hearts"
  • Monsters and Critics summer 2007