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Johnny’s New Job

Published in Interzone, March-April 2010.  (The issue also includes a guest editorial by the author, which comments on the story.)

(Collected in The Peacock Cloak from Newcon Press)

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Author adminPosted on October 21, 2009December 3, 2012Categories Free stories, Short stories6 Comments on Johnny’s New Job

Rat Island

Published in Interzone, October 2008.

(Collected in The Peacock Cloak from Newcon Press)

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The Welfare Man Retires

Published in Interzone, August 2000

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The Long Journey of Frozen Heart

Published in Interzone, July 1991

Prototype for the main subplot of The Holy Machine.

More about this story here.

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