There are a lot of words in the world, and I've even used a few of them. My first published pieces were simple bits for The Chelsea Weekly News (in Chelsea, Massachusetts), and then as I became a developer (or programmer, or engineer, depending who you talk to), I wrote a lot of internal technical documents—API references, design documents, end-user documentation.

My love, though, is fiction. I started out as a science fiction fan, but as the years went by I found myself drawn to the power of the horror story—sharp, human, character-driven.

I've only recently begun publishing fiction, but I hope to list more here soon.

Short stories

"I Am the Ocean" - Feral Fiction, September 2005. A collaboration with Dan Keohane.

"The Man She Loves" - appeared in Gothic.net, October 2001. Technically, my second professional horror sale, but it's the first thing that ever saw print.

"Three slices of life at the end of the world in Portland, Maine" - written with my wife, Valerie. When we lived in Maine, the Casco Bay Weekly, a local paper, held a fiction contest with two conditions: your story could be no longer than 750 words and had to start with one of three given lines. So we decided to make the story exactly 750 words long and use all three sentences. Not a professional sale, per se, but something we had a lot of fun writing.
    (We came in second, by the way.)

More

I also write technical and web content. See software for details.

Reading

You can't—well, you shouldn't—write without reading. Here are some books I liked. There are no "hardcore horror" titles in the bunch, and that probably reflects my current fascination with fiction that straddles the border between horror and fantasy.