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SCIFI.COM would like to thank all those who contributed and those who read the short stories over the past few years.   Archived Classics            Archived Originals     12.28.05 The Dope Fiend by Lavie Tidhar 12.21.05 The Great Wall of Mexico by John Sladek   12.21.05 Boz by Kristine Kathryn Rusch     12.14.05 The Emperor by Lucius Shepard 12.07.05 Star Light, Star Bright by Alfred Bester   12.07.05 The King of Where-I-Go by Howard Waldrop     11.30.05 The Man Who Would be Kong by Andrew Fox 11.23.05 The Man Who Never Forgot by Robert Silverberg   11.23.05 Stu by Bruce McAllister     11.16.05 Different Flesh by Claude Lalumière 11.09.05 The Beautiful People by Robert Bloch   11.09.05 Man for the Job by Robert Reed     11.02.05 The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode in On) by Howard Waldrop     10.26.05 Bears Discover Smut by Michael Bishop 10.12.05 Painwise by James Tiptree, Jr.         10.05.05 The Serial Murders by Kim Newman 09.28.05 The Water Sculptor by George Zebrowski   09.28.05 The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home From the Stars by Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold     09.21.05 Long Cold Day by Elizabeth Bear 09.14.05 Under the Hollywood Sign by Tom Reamy   09.14.05 Panacea by Jason Stoddard     09.07.05 Parallax by Laird Barron     08.24.05 Anyway by M. Rickert 08.17.05 To Be Continued... by Robert Silverberg   08.17.05 Is There Life After Rehab? by Pat Cadigan 08.03.05 A Life in the Day of... by Frank M. Robinson   08.03.05 Abimagique by Lucius Shepard     07.27.05 The Christmas Count by David B. Coe 07.20.05 The Tenants by William Tenn   07.20.05 Gauging Moonlight by E. Catherine Tobler     07.13.05 Calypso In Berlin by Elizabeth Hand 07.06.05 Come On, Wagon by Zenna Henderson   07.06.05 Heavy Lifting by Suzy McKee Charnas     06.22.05 The Starry Night by Barry N. Malzberg and Jack Dann 06.15.05 Mouse by Fredric Brown   06.15.05 There's a Hole in the City by Richard Bowes     06.08.05 Diamond Girls by Louise Marley 06.01.05 Transformer by Chad Oliver   06.01.05 The Being of It All by Carol Emshwiller     05.25.05 The Scribble Mind by Jeffrey Ford 05.18.05 The White King's Dream by Elizabeth A. Lynn   05.18.05 Song of the Black Dog by Kit Reed     05.11.05 The Girl in the Fabrilon by Marly Youmans   05.04.05 And the Deep Blue Sea by Elizabeth Bear     04.27.05 Heads Down, Thumbs Up by Gavin J. Grant 04.20.05 Brown Robert by Terry Carr   04.20.05 Passing of the Minotaurs by Rjurik Davidson     04.13.05 Guys Day Out by Ellen Klages 04.06.05 The Sea Was Wet as Wet Can Be by Gahan Wilson   04.06.05 Rocket Fall by David Prill     03.23.05 Vanishing Act by E. Catherine Tobler     03.16.05 Hidden Paradise by Robert Reed     03.09.05 The Spear Carrier by A.M. Dellamonica 03.02.05 They Don't Make Life Like They Used To by Alfred Bester   03.02.05 Invisible by Steve Rasnic Tem     02.23.05 Little Faces by Vonda N. McIntyre 02.16.05 The Yellow Pill by Rog Phillips   02.16.05 Jane by Marc Laidlaw     02.09.05 Hell Notes by M.K. Hobson 02.02.05 Familiar Pattern by W. Bertram Chandler   02.02.05 Matricide by Lucy Sussex     01.26.05 A Man of Light by Jeffrey Ford 01.19.05 Beam Us Home by James Tiptree, Jr.   01.19.05 The Five Cigars Of Abu Ali by Eric Schaller     01.12.05 Follow Me Light by Elizabeth Bear 01.05.05 Gather Blue Roses by Pamela Sargent   01.05.05 Nocturne by J.R. Dunn     12.22.04 Luciferase by Bruce Sterling 12.15.04 Tranfer by Barry N. Malzberg   12.15.04 Clownette by Terry Dowling     12.08.04 Changing the Guard by Matthew Claxton 12.01.04 Two Weeks in August Frank M. Robinson   12.01.04 The Dragons of Summer Gulch by Robert Reed     11.24.04 Super 8 by Terry Bisson     11.17.04 All of Us Can Almost... by Carol Emshwiller     11.10.04 Of Imaginary Airships and Minuscule Matter by Gary W. Shockley 11.03.04 Bagatelle by John Varley   11.03.04 Hula Ville by James P. Blaylock     10.27.04 We Have Always Spoken Panglish by Suzette Haden Elgin 10.20.04 A Kingdom by the Sea by Gardner Dozois   10.20.04 Q by John Grant     10.13.04 Soho Golem by Kim Newman 10.06.04 View from a Height by Joan D. Vinge   10.06.04 Ruby, in the Storm by A.M. Dellamonica     09.22.04 The Wolf-man of Alcatraz by Howard Waldrop 9.15.04 Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell     09.01.04 Can These Bones Live? by Manly Wade Wellman   09.01.04 Left of the Dial by Paul Witcover     08.25.04 Bulldozer by Laird Barron 08.18.04 God's Hooks! by Howard Waldrop   08.18.04 Beautiful Stuff by Susan Palwick     08.11.04 The Key by Ilsa J. Bick 08.04.04 A Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant   08.04.04 The Tang Dynasty Underwater Pyramid by Walter Jon Williams     07.28.04 Volunteers by Alex Irvine 07.21.04 Among the Dead by Edward Bryant   07.21.04 Jumpers by Mary Rosenblum     07.14.04 The Anatomist's Apprentice by Matthew Claxton 07.07.04 Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany   07.07.04 Leviathan Wept by Daniel Abraham     06.09.04 Shadow Twin by Gardner Dozois, George RR Martin and Daniel Abraham 06.02.04 The Girl Had Guts by Theodore Sturgeon   06.02.04 Gliders Though They Be by Carol Emshwiller     05.26.04 The Best Christmas Ever by James Patrick Kelly 05.19.04 Paul's Treehouse by Gene Wolfe   05.19.04 The First Commandment by Gregory Benford     05.12.04 Family Bed by Kit Reed 05.05.04 Un Bel Di by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro   05.05.04 The Voluntary State by Christopher Rowe     04.28.04 Elvis in the Attic by Catherine M. Morrison 04.21.04 The Dandelion Girl by Robert F. Young   04.21.04 Flight Risk by Marc Laidlaw     04.14.04 On Display Among the Lesser by Carol Emshwiller 04.07.04 Sin's Doorway by Manly Wade Wellman   04.07.04 This Tragic Glass by Elizabeth Bear     03.24.04 The Baum Plan For Financial Independence by John Kessel 03.17.04 The Little Lamb by Fredric Brown     03.03.04 King Solomon's Ring by Roger Zelazny   03.03.04 The Three Unknowns by Severna Park     02.23.04 Five Guys Named Moe by Sean Klein 02.18.04 Ballenger's People by Kris Neville   02.18.04 Articles of a Personal Nature by Deborah Coates     02.11.04 Inappropriate Behavior by Pat Murphy 02.04.04 Twilla by Tom Reamy   02.04.04 Zora and the Zombie by Andy Duncan     01.28.04 Scout's Honor by Terry Bisson 01.21.04 The Stare by John Wyndham   01.21.04 Inside Outside by Michaela Roessner     01.14.04 House of the Future by Richard Butner 01.07.04 The Prize of Peril by Robert Sheckley   01.07.04 Peregrines by Suzy McKee Charnas     12.24.03 Nutball Season by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 12.17.03 Minnesota Gothic by Thomas M. Disch     12.03.03 The Keepers of the House by Lester Del Rey   12.03.03 Liar's House by Lucius Shepard     11.26.03 My Father's Club by Michael Libling     11.19.03 And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon by Paul Di Filippo     11.14.03 The Periodic Table of Science Fiction by Michael Swanwick     11.12.03 Child of the Stones by Paul McAuley 11.05.03 The Golem by Avram Davidson   11.05.03 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-nominated Story It's All True by John Kessel     10.22.03 D = R x T by Howard Waldrop 10.15.03 The Fellow who Married the Maxill Girl by Ward Moore   10.15.03 The Woman in the Cherry-Red Convertible by the Platinum Sea by Ilsa J. Bick     10.07.03 At the Mouth of the River of Bees by Kij Johnson 10.01.03 The Transcendent Tigers by R.A. Lafferty   10.01.03 2004 World Fantasy Award-nominated Story Ancestor Money by Maureen F. McHugh 09.17.03 Caught in the Organ Draft by Robert Silverberg     09.03.03 It Walks in Beauty by Chan Davis   09.03.03 Greetings by Terry Bisson     08.27.03 Like, Need, Deserve by Robert Reed 08.20.03 The View from Endless Scarp by Marta Randall   08.20.03 A Walk in the Garden by Lucius Shepard     08.13.03 Threads by Jessica Reisman 08.06.03 Thirty Days Had September by Robert F. Young   08.06.03 Flowers on Their Bridles, Hooves in the Air by Glen Hirshberg     07.23.03 Daughter of the Monkey God by M.K. Hobson 07.16.03 What Now, Little Man? by Mark Clifton   07.16.03 You Go Where It Takes You by Nathan Ballingrud     07.09.03 Big House on the Prairie by David Prill 07.02.03 David's Daddy by Rosel George Brown   07.02.03 Angels and You Dogs by Kathleen Ann Goonan 06.18.03 A Full Member of the Club by Bob Shaw     06.04.03 Touchstone by Terry Carr   06.04.03 Jailwise by Lucius Shepard     05.28.03 The Man Who Counts by William Barton 05.21.03 When I Was Miss Dow by Sonya Dorman   05.21.03 The Book of Martha by Octavia E. Butler     05.14.03 The Fate of Nations by James Morrow 05.07.03 High Weir by Samuel R. Delany   05.07.03 2003 Sidewise Award-nominated Story The Eyes of America by Geoffrey A. Landis     04.23.03 The Third Part by Barry N. Malzberg 04.16.03 Temperature Days on Hawthorne Street by Charles L. Grant   04.16.03 In The Blood by Ilsa J. Bick     04.09.03 Unsportsmanlike Conduct by Scott Westerfeld 04.02.03 Frog Pond by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro   04.02.03 Frankenstein's Daughter by Maureen F. McHugh       03.05.03 Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall by Frank Belknap Long   03.05.03 For Keeps by J. R. Dunn     02.26.03 2003 Nebula Award-winning Story 2004 World Fantasy Award-nominated Story 2004 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-nominated Story 2004 Hugo Award-nominated Story The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford 02.19.03 Casablanca by Thomas M. Disch   02.19.03 Death Penalty by Leslie What     02.12.03 Señor Volto by Lucius Shepard 02.05.03 The Sliced-Crosswise Only-On-Tuesday World by Philip José Farmer   02.05.03 Castaway by Gene Wolfe     01.28.03 Boys by Carol Emshwiller 01.22.03 Let's Be Frank by Brian W. Aldiss   01.22.03 Amnesty by Octavia E. Butler     01.15.03 Fairy Tale by Gardner Dozois 01.08.03 Party of the Two Parts by William Tenn   01.08.03 Midnight at the Ichnologist's Ball by Greg Beatty 12.25.02 More Spinned Against … by John Wyndham     12.11.02 Protection by Robert Sheckley         12.03.02 Jury Service by Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow 11.20.02 Waiting for Billy Star by Tom Reamy   11.20.02 Intruders by J.R. Dunn     11.13.02 Winters are Hard by Steven Popkes 11.06.02 The Queen of Pig Island by Gerald Kersh   11.06.02 On Bookstores, Burners, and Origami by Jason Wittman 10.23.02 Flash Point by Gardner Dozois   10.23.02 Godfather Death by Richard Bowes     10.16.02 2003 Nebula Award-nominated Story The Wages of Syntax by Ray Vukcevich 10.09.02 The Screwfly Solution by Raccoona Sheldon   10.09.02 Shipbreaker by Paul Di Filippo     10.02.02 I Saw the Light by Terry Bisson 09.25.02 Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well by Reginald Bretnor     09.11.02 It Becomes Necessary by Ward Moore   09.11.02 Doctor Pretorius and the Lost Temple by Paul McAuley     08.28.02 A Flock of Birds by James Van Pelt 08.21.02 The Women Men Don't See by James Tiptree, Jr.   08.21.02 2003 Fantastyka Magazine Reader's Poll-nominated Story 2002 British Science Fiction Assn. Award-nominated Story Voice of Steel by Sean McMullen     08.14.02 What Mattered Was Sleep by Patrick O'Leary     08.07.02 Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds by Robert Reed     07.31.02 Fear of Strangers by Dave Hutchinson 07.24.02 Cordle To Onion To Carrot by Robert Sheckley   07.24.02 The Names of All the Spirits by J. R. Dunn     07.17.02 Some Other Time by Ray Vukcevich     07.10.02 2003 Nebula Award-winning Story What I Didn't See by Karen Joy Fowler 06.17.02 Clerical Error by Mark Clifton     06.05.02 Hop-Friend by Terry Carr   06.05.02 In Green's Dominion by Dale Bailey     05.22.02 The Last Big Sin by Kit Reed     05.15.02 Josephine by Carol Emshwiller     05.08.02 The Most Famous Little Girl in the World by Nancy Kress     05.01.02 Jemima by A. R. Morlan     04.24.02 The Children's Crusade by Robert Reed 04.17.02 The Geezenstacks by Fredric Brown   04.17.02 Scuffle by Dave Hutchinson     04.10.02 Jimmy Guang's House of Gladmech by Alex Irvine 04.03.02 Carcinoma Angels by Norman Spinrad   04.03.02 Swiftly by Adam Roberts     03.27.02 Emerald Street Expansions by Lucius Shepard 03.19.02 The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm   03.19.02 The Disinterred by Mark W. Tiedemann     03.13.02 Thanksgiving by Leslie What     03.06.02 Around the Curve of a Cosmos by Gregory Benford     02.27.02 Three Times over the Falls by A.M. Dellamonica     02.20.02 In for a Penny or The Man Who Believed in Himself by James P. Blaylock     02.13.02 The Discharge by Christopher Priest 02.06.02 Outside by Brian W. Aldiss   02.06.02 Water Master by Carol Emshwiller 01.16.02 Auto-da-Fé by Roger Zelazny     01.02.02 The Thousand Cuts by Ian Watson   01.02.02 2003 Theodore Sturgeon Award-winning Story Over Yonder by Lucius Shepard     12.19.01 Life on Earth by Pat Cadigan 12.12.01 The Heat Death of The Universe by Pamela Zoline   12.12.01 Grandmother Mist by William R. Eakin     12.05.01 Brink by Gregory Benford     11.28.01 2002 World Fantasy Award-nominated Story Struwwelpeter by Glen Hirshberg     11.14.01 Days Red and Green by Richard Bowes 11.07.01 Bad Medicine by Robert Sheckley   11.07.01 The Girl Who Ate Garbage by Jessica Reisman & A.M. Dellamonica     10.24.01 The Dread and Fear of Kings by Richard Paul Russo 10.17.01 Men without Bones by Gerald Kersh   10.17.01 From the Walls of Irezumi by A.R. Morlan     10.10.01 Small Houses by James P. Blaylock 10.03.01 How Beautiful With Banners by James Blish   10.03.01 Non-Disclosure Agreement by Scott Westerfeld 09.19.01 Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw         09.11.01 SF authors write about September 11th. by Neil Gaiman, David Brin, Bruce Sterling, Gardner Dozois and many others.     09.05.01 AZTECHS by Lucius Shepard 08.22.01 The Market in Aliens by Barry N. Malzberg   08.22.01 Neutrino Drag by Paul Di Filippo     08.15.01 Charlie's Angels by Terry Bisson 08.08.01 Consider Her Ways by John Wyndham   08.08.01 The Black Heart by Patrick O'Leary     08.01.01 Shooting the Moon by Geoffrey A. Landis     07.25.01 Standing in His Light by Kage Baker     07.18.01 The Other Real World by Howard Waldrop 07.11.01 Bernie the Faust by William Tenn   07.11.01 2002 World Fantasy Award-nominated Story His Own Back Yard by James P. Blaylock     06.27.01 Discreet Phenomena by Dave Hutchinson 06.20.01 Tomb Tapper by James Blish   06.20.01 Beyond the End of Time by Michael Cassutt     06.13.01 Floating In Lindrethool by Jeffrey Ford     06.06.01 Russian Vine by Simon Ings 05.16.01 The Hat Trick by Fredric Brown         05.02.01 2002 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-nominated Story New Light on the Drake Equation by Ian R. MacLeod     04.25.01 Copperhead by Gene Wolfe     04.18.01 Refugees from Nulongwe by M. Shayne Bell     04.11.01 2001 Aurealis Award-nominated Story The Lagan Fishers by Terry Dowling     04.04.01 Bad Animals by John W. Randal     03.28.01 Cat in the Box by A.R. Morlan     03.21.01 Five Miles from Pavement by Steven Utley     03.14.01 One Horse Town by Howard Waldrop and Leigh Kennedy     03.07.01 Editing for Content by Gavin J. Grant     02.07.01 Silent Her by Barry B. Longyear     01.24.01 Cucumber Gravy by Susan Palwick     01.17.01 The Quicksilver Kid by Richard Bowes     01.10.01 More Adventures on Other Planets by Michael Cassutt     01.03.01 The Scab's Progress by Paul Di Filippo and Bruce Sterling     12.13.00 The Meaning of the Word by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro         12.6.00 Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol by Elizabeth Hand 11.29.00 The Dance of the Changer and the Three by Terry Carr   11.29.00 A Cold Dish by Lisa Tuttle     11.22.00 The Despoblado by Steven Utley 11.15.00 When It Changed by Joanna Russ   11.15.00 Tomorrow Town by Kim Newman     11.08.00 The Flyers of Gy An Interplanary Tale by Ursula K. Le Guin 11.01.00 Belling Martha by Leigh Kennedy   11.01.00 2001 World Fantasy Award-winning Story 2001 Nebula Award-nominated Story The Pottawatomie Giant by Andy Duncan     10.25.00 The Far Oasis by Jeffrey Ford 10.18.00 Corona by Samuel R. Delany   10.18.00 The Other Side by James P. Blaylock     10.11.00 Nevada by A. M. Dellamonica 10.04.00 The Man Who Loved the Faioli by Roger Zelazny   10.04.00 The Origin of Truth by Tim Lebbon     09.27.00 Wetlands Preserve by Nancy Kress 09.20.00 Descending by Thomas M. Disch   09.20.00 Birdy Girl by Robert Reed 09.06.00 To Bell The Cat by Joan D. Vinge   09.06.00 From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes     08.30.00 The Real World by Steven Utley 08.23.00 A Wind Is Rising by Robert Sheckley   08.23.00 Tir-na-nOg by Dave Hutchinson     08.16.00 Ciné Rimettato by A. R. Morlan     08.09.00 2003 Seiun Award-nominated Story Partial Eclipse by Graham Joyce     08.02.00 Winter Quarters by Howard Waldrop     07.05.00 2000 Nebula Award-winning Story Goddesses by Linda Nagata     06.28.00 Dune: Nighttime Shadows on Open Sand by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson     06.22.00 2001 Nebula Award-winning Story The Cure for Everything by Severna Park     06.14.00 Castle in the Desert Anno Dracula 1977 by Kim Newman     06.07.00 Chimera by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 05.31.00 The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop   05.31.00 Malthusian's Zombie by Jeffrey Ford     05.24.00 The War of the Worlds by James P. Blaylock     05.19.00 Freeing the Angels by Pat Cadigan and Chris Fowler