Stories

Story publications by Sean Monaghan.

A few links go to online readable versions of the stories, but some of those links have faded into the nebulous mists of the internet past.

Forthcoming

Reserve Tank in Stupefying Stories
Single Point Failure in Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Published

2022 Goldie in Asimov’s Science Fiction

2021 Eyes to the Height in Analog
2021 Problem Landing in Analog

2020 Marbles in Asimov’s Science Fiction
2020 One Hundred in Analog

2019 Chasing ‘Oumuamua in Asimov’s Science Fiction
2019 Ventiforms in Asimov’s Science Fiction

2018 The Billows of Sarto in Asimov’s Science Fiction

2017 Crimson Birds of Small Miracles in Asimov’s
2017 Low Arc in The Jim Baen Memorial Award, the first ten years

2016 Scour in New Myths
2016 Penny of Tharsis Montes in Amazing Stories
2016 The Bubbcat in Cirsova Issue 4
2016 The Root Bridges of Haemae in Aurealis
2016 Wakers in Asimov’s
2016 Go For The Dome in Perihelion
2016 Kernel in Digital Science Fiction (reprint)
2016 Ink for a Verbal Contract in Ad Astra

2015 Conductive and Flammable in Takahe
2015 The Harpsichord Elf in Capricious SF
2015 Double Team in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine issue 61
2015 Distractions in Perihelion 12 August 2015
2015 The Molenstraat Music Festival in Asimov’s Science Fiction September 2015
2015 Concentration in Landfall 229
2015 Number Man in SQMag
2015 Salazar in Perihelion

2014 Big Catch in 4Star
2014 The Man With Fountain Fingers in Stranglet Press
2014 The Whalefall in The Colored Lens
2014 Lightning Strikes in Perihelion
2014 The Helmet in Black Denim Lit
2014 Yet Another Invader in Fiction Vortex
2014 Mars Bomb Bound for Titan in James Gunn’s Ad Astra
2014 Alecia in the Mechwurm in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine as Michael Shone
2014 Low Arc Baen
2014 Ripples from the Weather Aggregator in Black Denim Lit
2014 Scorched in Takahe
2014 800 in Black Denim Lit March
2014 Walking Gear in Asimov’s Science Fiction March
2014 Blood Relation in Outposts of Beyond January
2014 Quisic Smith and the Russian Puzzle Doll in Perihelion January

2013 Aerobrake in The Colored Lens
2013 Arms Wide in Landfall
2013 Let’s Go Find Karl in The Colored Lens
2013 Stone 382 in Perihelion
2013 Memory Book in Fiction Vortex
2013 I Puncture Him All Over in Blood and Guts (reprint)
2013 The Briefcase in Cities of Death
2013 Kernel in Aurealis
2013 Canyon Rim in Sleepwalkin’ & Picklockin’
2013 Turtles in Encounters
2013 The Flower Garden in The Colored Lens (as Michael Shone)
2013 Doubtful Sound in Static Movement
2012 Susan’s Ghost in Takahe
2012 My Eyes Are Screws in The Quarter Hour (poem, reprint)
2012 Antigen in Flashes in the Dark
2012 The Wreck of the Emerald Sky in The Colored Lens
2012 Lie Beside Mary in The Morgue (reprint)
2012 Bailey’s Smile in MicroHorror
2012 Ganglion Trains in Synaptic Void (reprint)
2012 How Do You Like These Heights? in What is Old is New Again: A Steampunk Anthology
2012 With Demon in Microhorror
2011 Imaginary Maid Forgets She Is Late For A Banquet in Alternate Dimensions
2011 A Hundred Miles From Bolivar in Evolutionary Blueprint
2011 How the standard hurricane scale relates to the standard apology scale in Static Poetry V
2011 Katie Stumbled (reprint) in Jake’s Monthly – Science Fiction (as Michael Shone)
2011 Where There’s Water in Jake’s Monthly – Science Fiction
2011 Trent Lucharge to the Rescue Again in Planetary Stories Issue 23 (reprint)
2011 I am Nano in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (print only)
2011 Back from Vermont in Takahe 73 (print only)
2011 (Two stories – Zombie Love For Morons and Fledgling – reprinted in) ebook from Year Two, The New Flesh free ebook
2011 Eltanin Hoop Anomaly Rescue in Will It Go Faster If I Push This (Amazon)
2011 Serrations in Static Poetry iv (Amazon)
2011 A Visit to the Theatre in Bounty Hunter (Amazon)
2011 Katie Stumbled in Bounty Hunter (as Michael Shone) (Amazon)
2011 Trent Lucharge to the Rescue Again in Adventures in Other Worlds
2011 My Eyes are Screws in Static Poetry iii (Amazon)
2011 Bergamot Silhouetted in Unquiet Earth (Amazon)
2011 Fledgling in Pot Luck Flash Fiction (reprint) (Amazon)
2011 Tiny Grave in The Shadow People (Amazon)
2011 Suitcase Nuke in Monk Punk (Amazon)
2011 Devil in Angel Wings in Static Poetry ii (Amazon)
2011 Deadstick in Oil (Amazon)
2011 Pan Am 617 Heavy, novella serialization (eight parts) in Bewildering Stories
2011 The Boxer in CrimeSpree
2011 Vaporize Marineris in Cosmic Catastrophes – (Amazon)
2011 Oh, She’s a Witch in Static Poetry – (Amazon)
2011 I Just Had To Come Down Here Once in Serial Killers – (Amazon)
2011 Bathroom Break in PowderBurnFlash
2011 Waking Stephanie in Something from the Attic 2 – (Amazon)

2010 Norwegians in Literary Foray – (Amazon)
2010 French Nocturne and Bar, two Fibonacci poems in The Fib Review #8
2010 Zombie Love for Morons in The New Flesh (also reprinted in Year Two, The New Flesh ebook)
2010 Let Go Samuel in Duel (reprint)
2010 Ganglion Trains in The Fringe Magazine
2010 Akio Draws Manga in Flashes In The Dark
2010 Hard Suit Lock in Planet Magazine
2010 Bottled Sleep in Static Movement
2010 Don’t Sleep Downstairs in Flashes In The Dark
2010 Finding Keys in MicroHorror
2010 Rosalind in Something from the Attic – (Amazon)
2010 The Rotated, novel serialization, part 5 in Infinite Windows
2010 Pipes and Bones in Infinite Windows
2010 Fledgling in The New Flesh (also reprinted in Year Two, The New Flesh ebook)
2010 Giant Mushroom Envelops Small W.A. Town in Antipodean Science Fiction
2010 Airhead in MicroHorror
2010 Lizard Brain in Static Movement
2010 The Things Are Illusions in Trunk Stories – (Amazon)
2010 Morning News (reprint) in Not From Here Are You/Dog Days
2010 The Rotated, novel serialization, part 4 in Infinite Windows (October 2010)
2010 Heading for Boise in MicroHorror
2010 The Bureau of Lost and Found Souls in Static Movement
2010 Sunset Photographer in 365Tomorrows
2010 The Path to Centauri in 10Flash
2010 The Newly-Oiled Gate in Flashes in the Dark
2010 Lake Ryder Island Swim in Oh, The Horror! – (Amazon)
2010 Berg in About Time (reprint) – (Amazon)
2010 Redcord MacroNanoEngine in Error State in Antipodean Science Fiction
2010 The Tuatara Terrarium in Madness of the Mind – (Amazon)
2010 The Wasps’ Nest in Madness of the Mind – (Amazon)
2010 The Rotated, novel serialization, part 3 Infinite Windows (September 2010)
2010 Morning News in Dog Days of Summer 2010 (Special Jury Award)
2010 Zombie Vampire Robot from Mars: A Kirsten Challenger Mystery Romance in Novus Creatura – (Amazon)
2010 Breathe Me In in Novus Creatura – (Amazon)
2010 The Rotated, novel serialization, part 2 in Infinite Windows (August 2010)
2010 Deleted Scenes in The New Flesh
2010 (Three stories – Submissions, The Neuron Thieves and Guide Number 3 – reprinted in) Year One, ebook from The New Flesh Magazine
2010 The Vampire Gustav at the End of the Universe, Chapbook short story collection from Lame Goat Press (Includes reprints and “Let Go Samuel” a new story) – (Amazon)
2010 Stone Goddess (reprint) in The Best of Lame Goat Press – (Amazon)
2010 Lie Beside Mary in Flashes in the Dark
2010 Barris Debris in Deep Space Terror – (Amazon)
2010 Man With Shark Teeth Walks Into Jake’s Diner in Flash! – (Amazon)
2010 Jacob’s Naked Aquarium in Bewildering Stories (selected for best of quarterly review, 3rd quarter 2010)
2010 The Rotated, novel serialization, part 1 in Infinite Windows (July 2010)
2010 Apollo 19 in Infinite Windows
2010 Zemogorgon in Pulp Metal Magazine
2010 Left to Chance (reprint) in Mannequin Walking – Shalla Magazine No. 5 – (Amazon)
2010 Zombie-Eyed Girl in Flashes in The Dark
2010 While He Lay Crumpled (reprint) in Shakespearean Follies – Shalla Magazine No. 4 – (Amazon)
2010 Guide Number 3 in The New Flesh (also reprinted in Year One, The New Flesh ebook)
2010 New Shoes, Old Eyes (poem, reprint) in Urban Care Poetry on Palmy
2010 Courtney, Reanimated in MicroHorror
2010 [Childless couple], untitled Fibonacci poem in The Fib Review issue 6
2010 Servants Of Darkness Go For Pizza in Static Movement
2010 New Shoes, Old Eyes (poem) in The Tribune
2010 The Neuron Thieves in The New Flesh (also reprinted in Year One, The New Flesh ebook)
2010 Missoula Night Hikes in Flashes in the dark
2010 Time of Death in Alien Skin Magazine
2010 I Puncture Him All Over in Macabre Cadaver
2010 Butterfly Kisses in House of Horror, issue 10
2010 Social Media for the Undead in MicroHorror
2010 Stone Goddess (podcast of story from Horror Through The Ages) in Cast Macabre
2010 Bored Out Of My Skull in The New Flesh
2010 Can’t You Find Anything Up There? in 365Tomorrows
2010 Join The Band in PowderBurnFlash
2010 The Cottage Garden in Static Movement
2010 Xuento in Kings of the Realm: A Dragon Anthology – (Amazon)
2010 Scattered Dunes in Kings of the Realm: A Dragon Anthology – (Amazon)
2010 Into the Green Pit in Bewildering Stories
2010 Berg in The Next Time: Alternate Reality/Time Travel – Out of print

2009 Reanimated (poem) in AlienSkinMag
2009 Fiancees Among Us in Flashes in the Dark (third place in The Worst of Love Contest)
2009 Stone Goddess in Horror Through The Ages – (Amazon)
2009 The Vampire Gustav at the End of the Universe in Bewildering Stories (selected as one of the Editor’s choices for the best of 2009)
2009 Puncture Wound in AntipodeanSF
2009 Past Glass in MicroHorror
2009 To a Pile of Ashes in Infinite Windows
2009 Breathe In in Flashes in the Dark
2009 Submissions in The New Flesh (selected as one the editor’s choice of the ten best of 2009, also reprinted in Year One, The New Flesh ebook)
2009 Equilibrium in The Daily Tourniquet
2009 While He Lay Crumpled in The New Flesh
2009 Automated Service in Flashes in the Dark
2009 Not Today, Cheree in Static Movement
2009 Second Visit in The Daily Tourniquet
2009 Three Fibonacci Poems in The Fib Review
2009 Under the Stone Bridge in Flashes in the Dark
2009 Crossing County Lines in PowderBurnFlash
2009 To Hold Her One Last Time in MicroHorror
2009 Jerry and Monica’s Falling Out in 365Tomorrows
2009 Skinny Joe in Infinite Windows
2009 The Rotated in Infinite Windows
2009 Eddie’s on Fire in MicroHorror
2009 Maisy-Sue in Flashes in the Dark
2009 Library Derelict in PowderBurnFlash
2009 Small Classified Ad in MicroHorror
2009 Last Plane Out in MicroHorror
2009 Left To Chance in PowderBurnFlash

2008 Skitters in MicroHorror
2008 Long Jump in PowderBurnFlash
2008 How things Fall in AntipodeanSF
2008 Airpocket in MicroHorror

2004 Fallen Willow in Takahe

2002 A Letter From Degas in dotlit

2001 Retreat in dotlit

1995 The Giant’s Breakfast, broadcast on Ears, National Radio

1993 Decompression in Takahe

1992 Rissa and the Blackout in Other Voices 2

1991 Dolphins in Kapiti Poems (poem)

1990 Speaking Terms in Takahe

1989 Cracklecat Charlie in Takahe

1988 Passing on in The Works

1988 Standing at The Waters Edge in Standing at The Waters
Edge

1988 Care in Kapiti Poems (poem)

1986 Trees is like people in Musings
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Book Reviews:

1993 in The Evening Standard, Palmerston North

1997 – 1998 in The Northern Advocate, Whangarei

1999 and 2004 to present in The Press, Christchurch

Conference paper:

2000 WIP – Work in Progress, Conference of Postgraduate Research, University of Queensland.
Subsequent publication (2001) in PostScript – online journal of Postgraduate Research, University of Queensland.

Articles:

2006 Young Adult Writing in New Zealand, in the Continuum Encyclopedia of Writing for Young Adults

2008 Field of dreams: create the space and they will come (co-authored with Kiri Thompson), in Library Life

Qualification:

Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing
2005, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
(This was a research degree with a thesis in two parts: a creative section and a critical essay. My creative section, “Hunter”, was a 35,000 word novella following a New Zealand family on trip to Florida. The 15,000 word critical essay, “Hunting for a Voice” examined the influence of three writers; John Irving, Richard Ford and Raymond Carver, on my writing in general and on the novella in particular). The Fryer Library catalogue record is here.