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Very Short - ADD-friendly
- "The Expurgated Version" - Brain Harvest
400 words; science fiction - "The Perfect Find" - Every Day Fiction
300 words; regular-type - "Forever in Heaven" - Everyday Weirdness
90 words; horror - "One-Sided" - Every Day Fiction
300 words; science fiction - "We Have an Objective" - Brain Harvest: A Magazine of Bad-Ass Speculative Fiction
200 words; slipstream - "Other Than This" - 580 Split
200 words; regular-type - "Epiphany Sale" - Every Day Fiction
200 words; regular-type - "Flow" - Every Day Fiction
400 words; science fiction
Short - for breaks from work
- "Hero" - Every Day Fiction
600 words; fantasy - "One Year Later" - Daily Science Fiction
700 words; fantasy - "How the Snake Got the Fork in His Tongue" - Every Day Fiction
1,000 words; fantasy - "Now Open" - Flash Fiction Online
600 words; fantasy - "Billions of Stars" - Flash Fiction Online
500 words; fantasy - "In Case of Apocalypse" - The Circlet Press website
600 words; fantasy (WARNING: adult) - "Solidly Grounded" - The Ranfurly Review
500 words; regular-type
Medium - for outright procrastinating from work
- "Get Happy" - AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review
1,700 words; science fiction - "Scales Made Manifest" - New Myths
4,100 words; fantasy - "Boulder No. III" - On The Premises
4,100 words; fantasy - "Upriver" - Tower of Light Magazine
2,400 words; fantasy - "Super Hero, Uncensored" - The Town Drunk
2,600 words; fantasy (light) - "From Mutsumi" - Quantum Kiss
1,300 words; science fiction (romance)
Long - relax... slip in
- "The Leafsmith in Love" - Beneath Ceaseless Skies
7,600 words; fantasy (steampunk)
Forthcoming - Fire in the hole!
- "Gnarly Times at Nana'ite Beach" - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
- "Something to Be Tamed" - Buzzy Mag
Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Contest (1st Quarter, 2011) - "The Idiot" - Big Pulp
Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Contest (1st Quarter, 2009)
Full Bibliography - Your complete field guide to locating more Kabza
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| 2011: |
"Neighbors: A Definitive Odyssey" - WTF?! (anthology) - December Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Contest (1st Quarter, 2008) "The Expurgated Version" - Brain Harvest - November "Get Happy" - AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review - August Reprinted, Beam Me Up! (podcast), December 2011 Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Contest (3rd Quarter, 2009) "The Ramshead Algorithm" - The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction - July Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Contest (2nd Quarter, 2008) "Worth the trip." —Sam Tomaino at SFRevu "Fascinatingly weird." —Brit Mandelo at Mandelo at Work "There's an exact tone of the gonzo here, over and above the arcane. A fun read." —Lois Tilton at Locus Online "A well-structured, entertaining romp. RECOMMENDED." —Joey O'Donnell at SFF World AUTHOR INTERVIEW: F&SF Blog "IN PIECES" (ebook) - Smashwords - June contains "Rowling in the Year 3000," Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Contest (4th Quarter, 2010) contains "The Vision of Miss Elaine," Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Contest (4th Quarter, 2008) "Switch" - Like Heaven and Hell (anthology) - April "Scales Made Manifest" - New Myths - March Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future Contest (2nd Quarter, 2009) "Hero" - Every Day Fiction - February |
| 2010: | "One Year Later" - Daily Science Fiction - November "Something Special. Recommended." —Frank Dutkiewicz at Diabolical Plots "Boulder No. III" - On The Premises - November Nomination, by Editor, 2011 Million Writers Award "The Perfect Find" - Every Day Fiction - November "How the Snake Got the Fork in His Tongue" - Every Day Fiction - October "Now Open" - Flash Fiction Online - September "A clever little piece." —Sam Tomaino at SFRevu "Ovum Tempi" - Bards and Sages Quarterly - April "The Leafsmith in Love" - Beneath Ceaseless Skies - March Reprinted, The Best of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine, Year 2 (anthology), September 2011 Finalist, Writers of the Future Contest (3rd Quarter, 2007) "Delightful fantasy." —Lois Tilton at Locus Online "Forever in Heaven" - Everyday Weirdness - February "One-Sided" - Every Day Fiction - February |
| 2009: | "You Don't Know Where That's Been" - Spaceports and Spidersilk - December "We Have an Objective" - Brain Harvest - August "Upriver" - Tower of Light Magazine - July "Billions of Stars" - Flash Fiction Online - May "Very clever, indeed." —Sam Tomaino at SFRevu "Other Than This" - 580 Split - March "Hi Jason" - Transcendent Visions - January ![]() |
| 2008: | "Epiphany Sale" - Every Day Fiction - February Reprinted, The Best of Every Day Fiction 2008 (anthology), December 2008 "The Hornets' Nest" - Spaceports and Spidersilk - December "In Case of Apocalypse" - The Circlet Press website - September |
| 2007: | "Happinex" - Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths (anthology) - December "Solidly Grounded" - The Ranfurly Review - December "Merry Christmas and Lucky Jibblewooch" - KidVisions - December "From Mutsumi" - Quantum Kiss - November "Flow" - Every Day Fiction - November |
| 2004: | "Jakkit's Ferocious Mount" - Beyond Centauri - July |
| 2003: | "This Girl" - Happy - November![]() Reprinted, Beyond Centauri, October 2003 "Memories of Happy Childhood" - The Fifth Di... - March "A good twist; a good read." —Dennis Kriesel at Kansas City infoZine |
| 2002: | "Cat Fight" - Kisses for Kids - December "Watch Out, It's Catching" - Short Stuff Magazine - November ![]() Reprinted, Portals (anthology), October 2003 Nomination, James B. Baker Award for Genre Fiction (Sam's Dot Publishing), 2002 |




















