Selected Fiction

Anthologies:

 

“When Duty Calls” in Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder (Wildside Press, forthcoming, March 2012)

“Murder on the Orient Express” (reprinted from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine) in The Mystery Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Mystery Stories (Wildside Press, 2011)

“The Blanketing Snow” in One Paycheck Away (Main Street Rag Press, 2003)

Magazines/Journals:

Aries One

“Awful Words and Awful Thoughts,” 1995

“Raking,” 1993

Barrelhouse

“Blue Plate Special” (Crime Issue), January 2012

Burst

“Tell-All,” Summer 2007

Cities and Roads

“The Hunters,” Fall 1998

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine

“Ithaca 37” (forthcoming)

“The Care and Feeding of House Plants” (forthcoming)

“A Drowning at Snow’s Cut,” May 2011

“Rearview Mirror,” March/April 2010; winner, 2011 Derringer Award for Best Novelette

“A Voice From the Past,” August 2009; short-listed, 2010 Best American Mystery Stories

“An Internal Complaint,” June 2007

“Murder on the Orient Express,” Dec. 1995

Fiction Weekly

“Here for You,” April 2009

Lifeboat

“Pointing the Finger,” 2003

Lone Wolf Review

“Mrs. Prentiss Goes to Bed,” 1998

Mysterical-E

“Hard-boiled Sweetheart: A Prose Sonnet,” Summer 2011

Needle: A Magazine of Noir

“The White Rose of Memphis,” Fall 2011

The News and Observer

“Of Tides and Time,” March 31, 2002

“Pictures of an Afternoon,” “The Chameleon” and “Souvenir,” February 18, 2001

North American Review

“Visions and Revisions,” Summer 2004; finalist, Kurt Vonnegut Fiction Prize

Pank

“Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” Crime Issue, September 2011

Plots With Guns

“Locked Out,” Fall 2011

Prick of the Spindle

“Mrs. Marple and the Hit & Run,” Summer 2010; named a Notable Story of 2010 by storySouth

The Rambler

“Shrimp & Grits,” January-February 2009

SmokeLong Quarterly

“Up, Up and Away,” December 2010

So To Speak

“Advanced Formulas,” Summer 2004; second place, fiction contest

Spout

 “Out in the Woods,” 1994

Wellspring

“A Killing,” 1996

“Playing Games,” 1994