Selected Stories
“Lostronaut”
New Yorker, 11/9/08
“Traveler Home” in Travelers
Photographs by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz
Aperture, 2008
“Dear Earth”
Four Letter Word:
Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance
Free Press, 2008
“The King of Sentences”
New Yorker, 12/17/07
“Lucky Alan”
New Yorker, 3/19/07
“Perkus Tooth”
The Book of Other People
Penguin Books, 2007
“Phil in the Marketplace”
Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall, 2006
“The Used Bookshop Stories”
New and Used by Marc Joseph, Steidl, 2006“Interview With The Crab”
Bread #1, 2005
“The Drew Barrymore Stories”
Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2005
“The Collector”
Fred Thomaselli catalog, 2004
“Vivian Relf”
McSweeney’s, 2004
“Zeppelin Parable”
McSweeney’s 12, 2004
“The National Anthem”
Black Clock, 2004
“Super Goat Man”
The New Yorker, April 2004
“Fish Suspicion” collaboration with Aimee Bender
Westchester Journal News, September 2003
“The Vision”
Tin House, 2003
“Children with Hangovers”
Lit, 2003
“The Dystopianist”
Conjunctions 39, 2002
“Liner Note”
Tin House, Winter 2001-2002
“Entry of Buildings”
2001 Stories, March 2002
Chapbook of “The Mad Brooklynite”
Synaesthesia Press, 2001
“Underberg Excerpt”
Black Book, 2001
“The Spray”
Fetish, Four Walls Eight Windows Press, 1998
“K Is for Fake”
McSweeney’s 4, 2000
“Man Jet”
Nerve, January 2000
“Planet Big Zero”
Lit, Fall 1999
“Biosphere”
Esquire, September 1999
“Ninety Percent of Everything”
with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1999
“Tugboat Syndrome”
The Paris Review, issue 151, Summer 1999
“The Glasses”
The Village Voice Literary Supplement, April–May 1999
“Missed Opportunities”
McSweeney’s, 1999
“The Mad Brooklynite”
McSweeneys #2, 1998
“Tourette Rhapsodies #’s 1, 2, and 3”
Bombay Gin, Fall 1998
“Access Fantasy”
Starlight 2 [anthology], Tor Books, 1998
“Five Fucks”
Nebula Awards Anthology 1997, Harcourt Brace, 1998
“The Darcy Bee” story collaboration
Omni Online, February 1998
“The Edge of the Bed of Forever”
with Angus MacDonald
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1997
“Martyr and Pesty”
anthology
Lethal Kisses, Millenium, 1997
“How We Got in Town and Out Again”
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 1996
“The One About the Green Detective”
Unusual Suspects Anthology, Vintage/Black Lizard 1996
“Holidays”
Crank! #6,Winter 1996
“The Birth of Utopia Noir”
Pulse, July 1996
“The Hardened Criminals”
Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Anthology
Tor Books, December 1995
“The True History of the End of the World”
with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Oct 1995
“Light and the Sufferer”
Century 1,1995
“The Insipid Profession of Jonathan Horneboom”
Full Spectrum 5, 1995
“Receding Horizon” with Carter Scholz
Crank! #5; Summer 1995
“Call Waiting”
Exquisite Corpse, April 1995
“The Notebooks of Bob K.”
From Kafka Americana
Gas, January 1995
“Willing It Over the Wall”
or the Nine Billion Names of Babe Ruth”
Crank! #4, Autumn 1994
“Mood Bender”
Crank! #3, Spring 1994
“Forever, Said the Duck”
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, December 1993
“The Precocious Objects”
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, December 1993
“The Happy Prince”
Crank! #2, Winter 1993
“Hugh Merrow”
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October/November 1993
“His Oral History”
Crank! #1, Autumn 1993
“Waiting Under Water”
Jejune, September 1993
“A Small Patch on My Contract”
Interzone, April 1993
“Vanilla Dunk”
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 1992
“The Speckless Cathedral”
Interzone, March 1992
“Ad Man”
Science Fiction Review, March 1992
“The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa” with Lukas Jaeger
In Dreams, Gollancz, 1992
“Program’s Progress”
Universe 2, 1992
“The Happy Man”
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, February 1991
“Walking the Moons”
New Pathways, September 1990
“Using It and Losing It”
Journal Wired, Summer/Fall 1990
“Neighbor Bob”
Journal Wired, Summer/Fall 1990
“A Mirror for Heaven”
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Summer 1990
“Noodling”
Journal Wired, Spring 1990
“The Buff”
Pulphouse,1990
“A Wish”
Pulphouse, 1989
“The Cave Beneath the Falls”
Aboriginal SF, January/February 1989