| Title |
Publication |
Notes |
|---|
| Blue Earth |
Carolina Quarterly (Spring 2000) |
as Arlo Ramirez |
| The Fall of Enrico Montoya |
Baltimore Review (Winter 2000) |
reprinted in Red Wheelbarrow (Spring 2001) |
| The Whale in the Moon |
Haydens Ferry Review 29 (Fall/Winter 2001-2002) |
reprinted in Second Writes inaugural issue |
| Romances |
Black Warrior Web (Winter 2002) |
|
| Six Chinese Cooks Rose into the Air |
The Southern Review (Summer 2003) |
|
| Chief Next Lightning's Phantom Hand |
StoryQuarterly 39 (2004) |
|
| The Wooden Mother |
Talebones 30 (Summer 2005) |
Honorable Mention: Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006 |
| The Wind in His Cotton Mountain Paradise |
The Greensboro Review (Fall 2005) |
|
| History of the Ghosts of Judy, Tennessee |
StoryQuarterly 41 (2005) |
honorable mention: 2006 SLF Fountain Award — for speculative fiction short story |
| The Fires of Krypton |
Fiction 54 (2008) |
|
| How to Raise a Positive-Thinking Baby |
Fiction (2008) |
|
| Three Fables About Entropy |
Pacific Review (2008) |
|
| Crazy Horse in Retirement |
The MacGuffin (2008) |
|
| Bury Me Under the Drugstore, Mama |
Northwest Review Vol. 46, Issue 2 (May 2008) |
|
| The Paint Giant |
North Dakota Quarterly (Winter 2008) |
|
| Blood Dauber |
Asimov’s Science Fiction (October/November 2009) |
written with Nebula Award nominee Ted Kosmatka
reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection |
| The Beekeeper |
Glimmer Train Stories 74 (2010) |
|
| The Street of the House of the sun |
The Pinch (2011) |
reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 |
| The Rain That Time/That Thing That Happened |
AGNI 81 (2015) |
|
| The Fool Killer |
New Limestone Review (2017) |
Read online |
| What The Fire God Said To The Beast |
My Name Was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed (2019) |
Michael described it as "an excerpted chapter from the 'Moby Dick' prequel / Captain Ahab book I'm working on.[10]."[better source needed] |
