Originally performed by Mark Woollett at Liars’ League NYC, KGB Literary Bar, New York City, October 2, 2019.
Bibliography : Short Stories
Originally published online in the XPRIZE anthology Seat 14C, August 17, 2017.
Originally published in Newtown Literary #5, Fall/Winter 2014.
Collaboration with Laura Chavoen. Published in Glitter and Mayhem: The Speculative Nightclub Anthology, edited by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas and John Klima, Apex Publications, Lexington, KY, August 2013.
Originally published by The Coop and Gapers Block as part of the 8x8 writing and design project, which debuted with a reception at The Coop in Chicago on May 18, 2012. The story is a response in writing to artwork created by Chad Kouri.
Originally published online at This May Get Awkward, December 5, 2011.
Originally published in Electric Velocipede #21/22, Fall 2010.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 29th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
- Reprinted online in The Piltdown Review, 19 June 2019.
Originally published online in The Pulps Online Issue #3, a publication of the Chicago in 2012 Worldcon Bid Committee, December 2009.
Originally published online in the Electric Velocipede blog, July 20, 2009.
- Reprinted online in The Piltdown Review, 22 May 2019.
Originally published in Electric Velocipede #15/16, Fall 2008.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 26th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Originally published in the chapbook An Alternate History of the 21st Century, Spilt Milk Press, Summer 2007.
- Locus Recommended Reading List, November 2007
- Reprinted in The Year's Best SF 13, edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Eos)
Orignally published in Storyteller, Winter 2004.
Originally published in Electric Velocipede #7, Fall 2004, under the name Perry Slaughter.
Originally published in Electric Velocipede #6, Spring 2004.
Originally published in Realms of Fantasy, December 2003.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Originally published online in Salon, November 10, 2003.
- Reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, St. Martin's Griffin, New York, NY, July 2004.
- Reprinted in Hungarian as "A végső fájdalomcsillapító " in Galaktika, 10 March 2006.
Originally published in Realms of Fantasy, October 2003.
- 2003 Short Fiction Honorable Mention Award, Association for Mormon Letters
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Originally published online in Salon, July 16, 2003, under the title "Love in the Age of Spyware."
- Read on the "Escape Pod" podcast, 20 July 2006.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Originally published in Electric Velocipede #4, Spring 2003.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
- Reprinted in The Best of Electric Velocipede, edited by John Klima (Fairwood Press)
Originally published in Beyond the Last Star: Stories from the Next Beginning, edited by Sherwood Smith, SFF Net, October 2002.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Originally published in Realms of Fantasy, April 2002.
- 2002 Nebula Award preliminary ballot (for best short story)
- A recommended story for June 2002, Locus
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 20th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Originally published in Realms of Fantasy, June 1999.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 17th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Originally published online in Blood Rose, Autumnal Equinox 1998.
Originally published in Science Fiction Age, September 1998.
- Reprinted online in Infinity Plus, February 2001.
- 1999 Nebula Award preliminary ballot (for best short story)
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 16th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
- 1998 Recommended Reading List, Locus
- Reprinted in Hungarian as "A csillagközi adatveszteség gyakorlati esetei" in MetaGalaktika v9.5, 2007.
Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1996, under the name D. William Shunn.
Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1995, under the name D. William Shunn.
- Reprinted in Russian as "Кевин17" in Сверхновая Fantasy & Science Fiction #31-32, 2003.
Originally published in Science Fiction Age, January 1994, under the name D. William Shunn.
Originally published in Washed by a Wave of Wind: Science Fiction from the Corridor, edited by M. Shayne Bell, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, UT, December 1993, under the name D. William Shunn.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 12th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1993, under the name D. William Shunn.
- Reprinted in German as »Von uns aus gesehen standen wir links« in Ein neuer Mensch: Die besten Stories aus The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction #91, Heyne Science Fiction and Fantasy, Munich, 1995.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
- 1993 Recommended Reading List, Locus
- 1993 Recommended Reading List, The New York Review of Science Fiction
- Reprinted online in The Piltdown Review, 23 May 2018.
Originally published in LDSF-2: Latter-day Science Fiction, edited by Benjamin Urrutia, Parables, Ludlow, MA, 1985, under the name D. William Shunn.
