Long Stories
"Scorched Supper on New Niger," New Voices III, ed. George R.R. Martin, Berkley Books 1980. Women Of Wonder, The Contemporary Years, ed. Pamela Sargent, Harcourt Brace tp 1995. Fast, funny little space-opera set on a world run by African market women.
"Listening to Brahms," Omni Magazine, Sept., 1988; pulphouse 1990; OUP. A tale of the end of humanity on Earth, but not on planet Kondra. Reprint: Vanishing Acts, ed. Ellen Datlow, July 2000, Tor Books. ISBN: 0312869622
"Beauty and the Opéra or The Phantom Beast,"
Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1996; a dark and erotic novella playing out the tempestuous married life of the monster of the Paris Opera and his beloved soprano, Christine. St. Martins Press, 1997, Modern Classics of Fantasy, ed. Gardner Dozois. Reprinted in Music of the Night, electricstory.com, 2001. Hugo nomination, best novelette, 1997
"The Ancient Mind at Work,"
Omni Magazine, Feb. 1980. Edward Weyland, a professorial vampire teaching anthropology in a small New England college, chooses the wrong victim, an Afrikaaner woman who used to hunt lions.
"Unicorn Tapestry," New Dimensions 11, ed. Marta Randall, Pocket Books 1980; Vampires: Encounteres
with the Undead, ed. David J. Skal, Black Dog and Leventhal
2001, ISBN 1-57912-209-4. Reprinted in Music of the Night, electricstory.com, 2001.
Much-anthologized Nebula-Award winning novella; Weyland the vampire in therapy, and in love if you can call it that.
Short Stories
"Peregrines," SCIFI.COM, January 2004; a novelette
about a boy shaman journeying with his power animal through the mysterious
and dangerous realms of Greenwich Village, in a near future of extended
Homeland Insecurity.
Boobs, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1989, much anthologized since. A Hugo-winning story — girl into werewolf and gladly. The Mammoth Book of Werewolves, ed. Stephen Jones, tp, Robinson Publishing (England) or Carroll & Graf (US), both 1994; The New Hugo Winners III, ed. Martin Greenberg, Tekno Books, 1994; Women who Run with the Werewolves, ed. Pam Keesey, Cleis Press, 1996, tp; Children of the Night, ed. Martin Greenberg, book and tape from Cumberland House Publishing, 2000. Reprinted in Music of the Night, electricstory.com, 2001.
"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep," A Whisper of Blood, ed. Ellen Datlow, William Morrow 1991). A nice Jewish grandma struggles with the consequences of her own suicide, one of which is — vampirism. Reprinted in Virtuous Vampires, ed. Martin Greenberg, Barnes and Noble, 1996; and in Ainsi soit l'ange, Editions de L'Oxymore, in France, 1999 (I think this is also print-on-demand).
"Evil Thoughts," Seaharp Hotel, ed. Charles Grant, Tor Books 1990; Pulp-house 1992. Reprinted in Music of the Night, electricstory.com, 2001. Woman vs. fungus, quiet horror in a modern suburb.
"Oak and Ash," Pulphouse Magazine, August 1992; OOP. Merlin is reawakened by an angry woman sculptor in a bitter future — ours, if we don't shape up. Reprinted in Sextopia: Stories of Sex and
Society, ed. Cecilia Tan, Circlet Press, 2001, ISBN
1-885865-31-7.
"Advocates," with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, for Under the Fang, ed. Robert R. McCammon, Borderlands Press and Pocket books, both 1991 (first Horror Writers of America theme anthology). A clash of bloodsucker styles in a vampire-dominated world. Reprinted in The Complete Vampire Stories of Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Transylvania Press 1994.
"A Musical Interlude," A Very Large Array, New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Melinda Snodgrass, University of New Mexico Press, 1988. Weyland attends the Santa Fe Opera, and what a performance!
"The Land of Lost Content," Streets of Blood, ed. Lawrence Schimel and Martin
Greenberg, Cumberland House, 1998, ISBN 1-888952-78-4. Weyland the vampire in captivity.
Moonstone and Tiger-Eye, Pulphouse, 1992, contains author's preface and two stories, "Evil Thoughts" and "Scorched Supper on New Niger."
Essays
"Meditations in Red," an essay on writing The Vampire Tapestry, in Blood Read, ed. Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997; ISBN 0-8122-1628-8
Drama
"Vampire Dreams," a two-act play based on "Unicorn Tapestry," staged at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, March, 1990 and at Bindlestiff Studio, November, 1997. Broadway Play Publishing
"Nosferatu," musical by Bernard J. Taylor, 1997; revisions and additional lyrics.
Teaching & Appointments:
Instructor, "The Disciplined Imagination: reading and writing Science Fiction & Fantasy", University of New Mexico, spring 2005.
Instructor, Clarion West Writers Workshop, Seattle 1984, 1986, 1997.
Instructor, Clarion Writers Workshop, Michigan, 1987, 2000, 2004.
Instructor, Southwest Writers Workshop, University of New Mexico, summer 1993, and irregularly in various UNM classes.
Instructor, Taos Writers School, 1993 -'96.
Chair, Archive Project Committee, National Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, 1986-88. The Peace Corps Archive, created to house letters, journals, photographs, and other volunteer records and artifacts of Peace Corps service in the field, was opened at the John F. Kennedy Library at Columbia Point, Massachusetts, in November of 1988.
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