story inspired by Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage "Air and Space After Dark", (co-written with Jeff Ayers) Young Adventurers: Heroes, Explorers & Swashbucklers, ed. Austin S. Camacho, Intrigue Publishing (December 2015) "Olaf and Lars", A Quiet Shelter There: An Anthology to Benefit Homeless Animals, ed. Gerri Leen, Hadley Rille Books (October 2015) The story was reprinted in the web site Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores, January 2018. The story was reprinted in the anthology Paradoxical Pets, ed. James Maxey, Word Balloon Books, November 2022. "James and the Prince of Darkness", Ain't Superstitious, ed. Juliana Rew, Third Flatiron Press (August 2015) "The Flatboat", Lissette's Tales of the Imagination, issue 6. June 2013 "Man on the Moon," Daily Flash 2012: 366 Days of Flash Fiction, ed. Jessy Marie Roberts, Pill Hill Press (2011) "America's! Next!! Zombie!!!", Zombies Ain't Funny, ed. Greg Crites, Veinarmor (June 2011) "James and the Gentry", Twit Publishing Presents: PULP!: Summer/Fall 2011 (Volume 3), ed. Chris Gabrysch, Twit Publishing (June 2011) The story was reprinted in Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, No. 13, ed by Daniel Arthur Smith, February 2017. "James and the Dark Grimoire", Cthulhu Unbound, ed. John Sunseri and Thom Brannan, Permuted Press (March 2009). This story was released as a full-cast audio drama on episode 93 of The Chronic Rift podcast on August 5, 2010. In August 2010 the story was nominated for the WSFA Small Press Award by the Washington Science Fiction Association. This story made Ellen Datlow's honorable mention list for Best Horror published in 2009. The story was reprinted in Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, No. 6, ed by Daniel Arthur Smith, July 2016. "The Laughing C'rell", Neo-Opsis, issue 15. September 2008. Non-fiction "'Penny Lane' by the Beatles," McSweeneys Internet Tendency: Short Essays on Favorite Songs, Inspired by Nick Hornby's Songbook, (May 23, 2005) "Vincent Price," Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Volume 3 (Jackson, Markoe, and Markoe, eds), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001. "Mel Blanc," Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Volume 2 (Jackson, Markoe, and Markoe, eds), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999. "A Few New Year's Treat for the VCR," Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1997. "Rating the Disney Classics : The Best--and the Rest--of Animated Videos, on a Scale From 1 to 10," Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1996. "When the Small Screen Makes It Larger Than Life," Los Angeles Times, June 2, 1996. "James