“Watchful”
All Worlds Wayfarer: Through Other Eyes (Issue 6 :Autumnal Equinox), November 2020
“The Optimist”
Antipodean SF, 250th Anniversary Edition, May 2019
Narrated by Alistair Lloyd for the Antipodean SF Radio Show, 13 June 2020
“Joy” [co-written with Anna Tambour]
- Review of Australian Fiction, 2017
“Moonshine”
- Dreaming in the Dark, ed Jack Dann, PS Publishing 2016
“Caterwaul” [co-written with Edlyn Tokley]
- Cosmos, ed Cat Sparks, Issue 65, Oct/Nov 2015
“Thin air”
- Dead Red Heart: Australian Vampire Tales, ed Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 2011
- The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2011, ed Liz Grzyb & Talie Helene, Ticonderoga Publications, 2012
“Welcome, farewell”
- Baggage, ed Gillian Polack, Eneit Press, 2010
“Sweep”
- Sprawl, ed Alisa Krasnostein, Twelfth Planet Press, 2010
“The Empire”
- Dreaming Again, ed Jack Dann, Voyager, 2008
- Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Fifth Annual Volume, ed Bill Congreve, MirrorDanse Books, 2010
- winner Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story, 2008
“A thousand natural shocks”
- Borderlands, no. 10, 2008
“Oh, Russia”
- 2012, ed Alisa Krasnostein & Ben Payne, Twelfth Planet Press, 2008
“Adjudication”
- The Worker’s Paradise, ed Nick Evans & Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 2007
“Reiteration”
- Man vs Machine, ed John Helfers & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW Books (US), 2007
“Lonely as life”
- Fantastic Wonder Stories, ed Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 2007
- nominated Aurealis Awards, 2008
“Tarans”
- Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, no. 24, 2006
- Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror: Volume Two, ed Angela Challis, Brimstone Press, 2007
- Honorable Mention, 20th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 2007
- Honorable Mention, 24th Year’s Best Science Fiction (US), 2007
“Dying for Air” [co-written with Sean Williams]
- Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, no. 23, 2006
- Honorable Mention, 20th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, 2007
“The Cup of Nestor”
- Troy, ed Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 2006
- Honourable Mention, Shadow Awards, 2006
- The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 3, ed Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, MirrorDanse Books, 2007
“Along came a spider”
- Agog! Ripping Reads, ed Cat Sparks, Agog! Press, 2006
“Leviathan”
- Eidolon.Net: Australian SF Online, ed Jeremy G. Byrne, 2005
- Eidolon 1, ed Jeremy Byrne & Jonathan Strahan, Eidolon Publications, 2006
- The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 2, ed Bill Congreve & Michelle Marquardt, MirrorDanse Books, 2006
- Fantasy: The Very Best of 2005, ed Jonathan Strahan, Locus Press (US), 2006
- nominated Ditmar Awards, 2006
- nominated Aurealis Awards, 2007
“Bushwalking”
- Gorillas in the Mitch, ed Mitch, 2005
“Chlorine”
- Borderlands, no. 3, 2004
- Honorable Mention, 18th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 2005
“Water babies”
- Agog! Smashing Stories, ed Cat Sparks, Agog! Press, 2004
- The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, ed Ellen Datlow, Gavin J. Grant & Kelly Link, St Martin’s Griffin (US), 2005
- nominated Ditmar Awards, 2005
“Waiting at Golgotha”
- Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural, ed Bill Congreve, Sandglass Enterprises, 2003
- Agog! Terrific Tales: New Australian Speculative Fiction, ed Cat Sparks, Agog! Press, 2003
- Honorable Mention, 17th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 2004
“Sister”
- Borderlands, no. 2, 2003
- Honorable Mention, 17th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 2004
“Ring, ring”
- Borderlands, no. 1, 2003
- Honorable Mention, 17th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 2004
“No man’s land” [co-written with Chris Lawson]
- Gathering the Bones: Thirty-Four Original Stories from the World’s Masters of Horror, ed Ramsay Campbell, Jack Dann & Dennis Etchison, Voyager [tpb], 2003
- US edition [tpb], 2003
- Australian [pb] edition, 2004
“Love is a stone”
- Gathering the Bones: Thirty-Four Original Stories From the World’s Masters of Horror, ed Ramsay Campbell, Jack Dann & Dennis Etchison, Voyager [tpb], 2003
- US edition [tpb], 2003
- winner Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story, 2003
- Australian [pb] edition, 2004
- Honorable Mention, 17th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 2004
“Going home” [written as William Gee]
- Midday the River, Moonchpa Publishing, 2002
“Sand”
- Tales from the Dark Side, ed Paul Collins & Meredith Costain, Pearson Education, 2002
“More than four legs”
- Spider Mania!, ed Paul Collins & Meredith Costain, Longman, 2001
“The drowned gargoyles”
- Seafarers, ed Paul Collins & Meredith Costain, Longman, 2001
“A new species”
- Into the Future, ed Paul Collins & Meredith Costain, Pearson Education, 2000
“Leech Forest”
- Noises in the Dark, ed Paul Collins & Meredith Costain, Longman, 2000
“A serpent in Eden” [co-written with Alison Tokley]
- Eidolon: the Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 29/30, 2000
- Year’s Best Fantasy, ed Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell, EOS (US), 2001
“Adrift”
- Lost in Space, ed Paul Collins & Meredith Costain, Addison Wesley Longman Australia, 1999
- US edition, 1999
“The Teacher of Righteousness”
- TiconderogaOnline, 1999
- Agog! Fantastic Fiction: 29 Tales of Fantasy, Imagination and Wonder, ed Cat Sparks, Agog! Press, 2002
“Atrax” [co-written with Sean Williams]
- New Adventures in Sci-Fi, collection by Sean Williams, ed Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 1999
- winner Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story, 1999
- Magic Dirt: the Best of Sean Williams, collection by Sean Williams, ed Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 2008
“The fish”
- Antipodean SF, no. 11, 1999
“Sammy goes to Toytown”
- Twenty3: a Miscellany, ed Anna Hepworth, Simon Oxwell & Grant Watson, 1998
“The masque of Agamemnon” [co-written with Sean Williams]
- Eidolon.Net: Australian SF Online, ed Jeremy G. Byrne, 1997
- Eidolon: the Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 27, 1998
- The Year’s Best: Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 2, ed Jeremy G. Byrne & Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins, 1998
- 15th Year’s Best Science Fiction, ed Gardner Dozois, St Martin’s Griffin (US), 1998
- The Mammoth Book of Best New Science Fiction: 11th Annual Collection, ed Gardner Dozois, Robinson Publishing Ltd (UK), 1998
- Hayakawa’s Science Fiction Magazine (Japan), no. 12, 2002
- Nowa Fantastyka (Poland), no. 10, 2003
- Troy, op cit
- Magic Dirt: the Best of Sean Williams, op cit
“With clouds at our feet”
- Dreaming Down-Under, ed Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, Voyager [tpb], 1998
- Australian [pb] edition, 1999
- US [hb] edition, 2001
- US [tpb] edition, 2002
“Imagining Ajax”
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, no. 20, 1998
- Wonder Years: the Ten Best Stories from a Decade Past, ed Peter McNamara, Aphelion Publications & MirrorDanse Books, 2003
- Troy, op cit
“The truth in advertising” [co-written with Sean Williams]
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, ed Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 1998
- AustrAlien Absurdities: Comic Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror by Australian Writers, ed Chuck McKenzie & Tansy Rayner Roberts, Agog! Press, 2001
“The Hungry Spring”
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“Love and Paris”
- Eidolon: The Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 25/26, 1997
- Honorable Mention, 15th Year’s Best Science Fiction (US), 1998
- Troy, ed Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 2006
“The dreaming seas beneath Cassandra”
- Eidolon: the Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 22/23, 1996
- Troy, op cit
“The mark of Thetis”
- Eidolon: the Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 21, 1996
- shortlisted Aurealis Awards 1996
- The Year’s Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1, ed Jeremy G. Byrne & Jonathan Strahan, HarperCollins, 1997
- Honorable Mention, 10th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 1997
- Troy, op cit
“Why my wife left me and other stories by Diomedes”
- Eidolon: the Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 15, 1994
- Troy, op cit
- TiconderogaOnline, no. 11, 2007
“Brother Stripes”
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, no. 11, 1992
- placed 2nd in Aurealis third reader’s poll
- Honorable Mention, 7th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 1994
- Honorable Mention, 11th Year’s Best Science Fiction (US), 1994
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“A new song for Odysseus”
- Eidolon: the Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 9, 1992
- Troy, op cit
“The dissections of Machaon”
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, no. 8, 1992
- placed equal 2nd in Aurealis second readers’ poll
- Borders Trilogy Convention program book, 2003
- Troy, ed Russell B. Farr, Ticonderoga Publications, 2006
“Shadows”
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, no. 7, 1992
- Honorable Mention, 6th Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (US), 1993
- The Aurealis Mega Oz SF Anthology, ed Stephen Higgins & Dirk Strasser, Chimaera Publications, 1999
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“All the fires of Lebanon”
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, no. 6, 1991
- placed 1st in Aurealis second readers’ poll
- recommended Immortal Fire, 1994
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“Cannibals of the fine light”
- Eidolon: the Journal of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 6, 1991
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“’Confession’ by Whitley Strudel”
- the Skeptic, no. ?, 1991
“The Final Machine”
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, no. 3, 1991
- placed 3rd in Aurealis first readers’ poll
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction: the Collectors’ Edition, ed Stephen Higgins & Dirk Strasser, Chimaera Publications, 1992
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“Rain from the new god”
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction, no. 2, 1990
- Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction: the Collectors’ Edition, ed Stephen Higgins & Dirk Strasser, Chimaera Publications, 1992
- Alien Shores: an Anthology of Australian Science Fiction, ed Peter McNamara & Margaret Winch, Aphelion Publications, 1994
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
- TiconderogaOnline, no. ?, 2004
- In Your Face, ed Tehani Wessely, FableCroft Publishing, 2016
“The Mind’s Eye”
- Omega Science Digest, Nov/Dec 1985
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“Chimera”
- Omega Science Digest, March/April 1983
- placed 2nd in Omega Science Digest readers’ poll
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“The garden”
- Omega Science Digest, Jul/Aug 1982
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“Skyriders”
- Omega Science Digest, May/June 1982
- Glass Reptile Breakout and Other Australian Speculative Stories, ed Van Ikin, University of Western Australia Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, 1990
- Cannibals of the Fine Light, op cit
“The hero of the nation”
- Omega Science Digest, March/April 1982
“The Return of Idomeneus”
- Omega Science Digest, November/December 1981
- The Rhizome Factor, no. 4, 1999
- Troy, op cit