Jeffrey's World :: Stories by Jeffrey Ford

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• Hello there (50133)

A Three Panel Comic

Published in:

• MAD Magazine #508, The Fundalini Section, Page 6 (2011) New!

The Summer Palace

Published in:

• "Ghosts By Gaslight" ed. by Nick Gevers & Jack Dann (2011) New!

The Hag's Peak Affair

Published in:

• "Portents" edited by Al Sarrantonio (2011) New!

Down Atsion Road

Published in:

• Haunted Legends (2010)

86 Deathdick Road

Published in:

• "Book of Dreams: An Anthology" edited by Nick Gevers (2010)

Dr. Lash Remembers

Published in:

• "Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded" ed. by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (2010)

Ganesha

Published in:

• "The Beastly Bride" ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (2010)

The Sorcerer Minus

Published in:

• "The Way of the Wizard" edited by John Joseph Adams (2010)

Polka-Dots and Moonbeams

Published in:

• "Stories" edited by Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio (2010)

The War Between Heaven and Hell Wallpaper

Published in:

• Interfictions 2 (2009)

Last Drink Bird Head

Published in:

• "Last Drink Bird Head" ed. by Jeff and Anne VanderMeer (2009)

Weiroot

Published in:

• 'Odd?' Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (2011) New!

• Weird Tales #353 (2009)

Baby Hand

Published in:

• Electric Velocipede Blog (2009)

The Coral Heart

Published in:

• Eclipse #3 (2009)

The Golden Dragon

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

Daltharee

Published in:

• "Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy 3" ed. by Kevin Brockmeier & Matthew Cheney (2010)

• "The Year's Best Science fiction and Fantasy" edited by Rich Horton (2009)

• "Year's Best Fantasy 9" edited by Kathryn Cramer (2009)

• The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2008)

The Dream of Reason

Published in:

• The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction [Audio] (2008)

• Extraordinary Engines, edited by Nick Gevers (2008)

The Dismantled Invention of Fate

Published in:

• The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, edited by Jonathan Strahan (2008)

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

Award:

• Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading List (2008)

The Fat One

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

After Moreau (Online Story)

Published in:

• Realms 2 (2010)

• Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue #19 (2008)

The Seventh Expression of the Robot General

Published in:

• Eclipse #2 (2008)

The Manticore Spell

Published in:

• "Tails of Wonder and Imagination" ed. by Ellen Datlow (2010)

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Wizards: Magical Tales From the Masters of Modern Fantasy (2007)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2008)

A Few Things About Ants (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• The Journal of Mythic Arts (2007)

The Dreaming Wind [Podcast]

Published in:

• PodCastle Episode 54 [Podcast] (2009)

• StarShipSofa: Aural Delights No 75 [Podcast] (2009)

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Best SF & Fantasy of the Year, Vol. 2 (2007)

• The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales (2007)

Awards:

• Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (2008)

• Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story (2008)

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2007)

Bedroom Light

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Inferno (2007)

The Ineffable

Published in:

• Space & Time, Issue #100 (2007)

Ariadne's Mother

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• The Flash (2007)

This is a flash fiction piece.

The Drowned Life [Podcast]

Published in:

• "The Oxford Book of American Short Stories" edited by Joyce Carol Oates (Sometime 2012) •

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #21 (2008)

• Best American Fantasy 2008 (2008)

• Eclipse #1 (2007)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2008)

Qutting Dreams (Online Story)

Published in:

• Electric Velocipede, Issue 11 (2007)

This is a flash fiction piece done with Matthew Cheney.

Under the Bottom of the Lake

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Year's Best Fantasy 8 (2008)

• Subterranean Magazine Issue #7 (2007)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2008)

The Night Whiskey

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #20 (2007)

• The Best SF and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 1 (2007)

• Salon Fantastique (2006)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novelette (2007)

The Way He Does It (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Electric Velocipede, Issue 10 (2006)

Awards:

• Nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction (2007)

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2007)

Botch Town

Published in:

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

Awards:

• Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (2007)

• Winner of the Locus Award for Best Novella (2007)

• Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (2007)

This is a novella of nearly 40,000 words and is the impetus for Jeffrey Ford's novel "The Shadow Year."

A Man of Light (Online Story)

Published in:

• SciFiction (via Internet Archive) (2005)

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novelette (2006)

The Scribble Mind (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #19 (2006)

• SciFiction (via Internet Archive) (2005)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novelette (2006)

Figurative Synesthesia

Published in:

• The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (2005)

Giant Land (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives #2 (2005)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2006)

Boatman's Holiday

Published in:

• Starship Sofa [Podcast] (2010)

• Fantasy: The Very Best Of 2005 (2006)

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2006)

Euroborean Lordosis

Published in:

• The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (2005)

In the House of Four Seasons

Published in:

• Worlds of Fantasy: The Best of Fantasy Magazine (April 2011) •

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• Fantasy Magazine #1 (2005)

Jupiter's Skull

Published in:

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (2004)

The Trentino Kid

Published in:

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• The Dark: New Ghost Stories (2004)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2004)

A Night In The Tropics (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #18 (2005)

• Argosy Magazine #1 (2004)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novelette (2005)

The Weight of Words

Published in:

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• Leviathan #3 (2004)

Awards:

• Nominated for the World Fantasy Awards for Best Short Story (2003)

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novelette (2003)

The Annals of Eelin-Ok [Podcast]

Published in:

• Podcastle 045 (2009)

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• Fantasy: The Best of 2004 (2005)

• The Faery Reel: Tales From the Twilight Realm (2004)

Awards:

• Winner of the Speculative Literature Foundation Fountain Award (2004)

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2005)

Coffins on the River

Published in:

• Crucified Dreams (2011) New!

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• Polyphony #3 (2003)

The Beautiful Gelreesh

Published in:

• "Weird: A Compendium of Dark & Strange Stories" ed. by Jeff & Ann VanderMeer (Sometime 2011?) •

• "Running With the Pack" editor by Ekaterina Seida (2010)

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• Album Zutique: No. 1 (2003)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2004)

The Empire of Ice Cream (Online Story)

Published in:

• "The Secret History of Fantasy" ed. by Peter S. Beagle (2010)

• StarShipSofa [Podcast] (2009)

• Nebula Awards Showcase 2005, edited by Jack Dann (2005)

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• SciFiction (via Internet Archive) (2003)

• Science Fiction: Best of 2003 (2003)

Awards:

• Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette (2003)

• Nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (2004)

• Nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (2004)

• Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette (2004)

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novelette (2004)

The Yellow Chamber

Published in:

• Trampoline (2003)

Present From The Past

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• The Silver Gryphon (2003)

Doc Aggressive, Man of Tin #2

Published in:

• Witpunk (2003)

Bright Morning

Published in:

• Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology (2006)

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

What's Sure to Come

Published in:

• The Drowned Life: Short Story Collection (2008)

• The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (2007)

• LCRW, No. 10 (2002)

Six Gun Loner of the High Butte #6

Published in:

• Witpunk (2003)

• The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives (2002)

Creation

Published in:

• "The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction" ed. by Gordon Van Gelder (2009)

• Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #16 (2003)

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• Fictionwise (2003)

• The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (2002)

Awards:

• Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (2003)

• Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story (2003)

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2003)

• Nominated for the Nebula for Best Short Story (2003)

Deep Space Adventure #32

Published in:

• Witpunk (2003)

• The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives (2002)

Something By The Sea

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2002)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Novelette (2003)

Spicy Detective #3

Published in:

• Witpunk (2003)

• The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives (2002)

The Green Word

Published in:

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #16 (2003)

• Year's Best Fantasy 3 (2003)

• Green Man Anthology: Tales from the Mythic Forest (2002)

Horrors By Waters (Online Story)

Published in:

• Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler (2003)

• Fantastic Metropolis (2001)

High Tea With Jules Verne (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• LCRW No. 7 (2001)

The Far Oasis (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• SciFiction (via Internet Archive) (2001)

Out Of The Canyon (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• Fantastic Metropolis (2001)

Exo-Skeleton Town (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• Infinity Plus (2001)

• Black Gate #1 (2001)

Award:

• Winner of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign-language Short Fiction (2006)

This is a novelette.

The Honeyed Knot

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• Year's Best Fantasy & Horror #15 (2002)

• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2001)

Awards:

• Nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (2002)

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2002)

Quiet Days in Purgatory (Online Story)

Published in:

• Fantastic Metropolis (2001)

Summer Afternoon

Published in:

• The Empire of Ice Cream: Short Story Collection (2005)

• Fantastic Metropolis (2001)

Floating In Lindrethool (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• SciFiction (via Internet Archive) (2001)

Pansolapia

Published in:

• "Digitial Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction & Fantasy" ed. by Ellen Datlow (2010)

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• Event Horizon (2000)

The Fantasy Writer's Assistant

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2000)

Awards:

• Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story (2001)

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2001)

At Reparata

Published in:

• The New Weird (2009)

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, Vol.13 (2000)

• Event Horizon (2000)

Malthusian's Zombie (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Living Dead (2008)

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• SciFiction (via Internet Archive) (2000)

Award:

• Nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story (2001)

On the Road To New Egypt

Published in:

• "Sympathy for the Devil" edited by Tim Pratt (2011) New!

• Cross of Centuries: Twenty-five Imaginative Tales About the Christ (2007)

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• Aberrations (1995)

Grass Island

Published in:

• Puerto Del Sol, Summer 1995 (1995)

The White Man

Published in:

• ParaSpheres (2006)

• Aberrations (1995)

Rabbit Test (Online Story)

Published in:

• Fantastic Metropolis (1995)

The Delicate

Published in:

• "Weird: A Compendium of Dark & Strange Stories" ed. by Jeff & Ann VanderMeer (Sometime 2011?) •

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• Space & Time, Spring 1994 (1994)

The Woman Who Counts Her Breath

Published in:

• The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories: Short Story Collection (2002)

• Northwest Review, Vol. 32, #3 (1994)

Every Richie There Is

Published in:

• Puerto Del Sol, Winter 1993 (1993)

A Hole in the Day

Published in:

• Space & Time, Fall 1993 (1993)

The Colossus of Roads

Published in:

• Kiosk, Spring 1993 (1993)

Couch Dancing

Published in:

• Kiosk, Spring 1992 (1992)

The Eigth Wonder

Published in:

• MSS Literary Magazine, Fall 1992 (1992)

Eclipse

Published in:

• Buffalo Spree, Winter 1991 (1991)

The Place Where Nothing Moved

Published in:

• Timbuktu, Spring 1991 (1991)

The Last Half

Published in:

• Hayden's Ferry Review, Fall 1990 (1990)

The Cosmology Of The Wider World (Online Story)

Published in:

• The Cosmology Of The Wider World: Novella (2005)

• Excerpted on Infinity Plus (2005)

• MSS Literary Magazine, Fall 1990 (1990)

A Novella

Never

Published in:

• Hayden's Ferry Review, Spring 1989 (1989)

The Alchemist, Becalmed at Sea, Weeps

Published in:

• Space & Time, Summer 1989 (1989)

Rose Country

Published in:

• Timbuktu, Spring 1989 (1989)

The Master of Fiction

Published in:

• MSS Literary Magazine, Volume VI, #2 (1988)

Rapture of the Deep

Published in:

• MSS Literary Magazine, Volume IV, #3 (1985)

Legacy

Published in:

• MSS Literary Magazine, Volume III, #2 and #3 (1984)

The Casket

Published in:

• MSS Literary Magazine, Fall/Winter (1981)

The Pittsburgh Technology

Published in:

• "The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination" edited by John Joseph Adams (Sometime 2011) •

Sit the Dead

Published in:

• "Teeth: Vampire Tales" ed. by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (April 2011) •

Daddy Long Legs of the Evening

Published in:

• "Naked City: New Tales of Urban Fantasy" edited by Ellen Datlow (Spring 2011) •

Relic

Published in:

• "Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities" ed. by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Sometime 2011) •

The Last Triangle

Published in:

• "Supernatural Noir" ed. by Ellen Datlow (Sometime 2011) •

The Double of My Double Is Not My Double

Published in:

• Eclipse 4 edited by Jonathan Strahan (May 2011) •