Titles below are in order of first appearance on the site. Most are available either in HTML or PDF or both.
*An asterisk indicates there's a link to a translated version at the bottom of this page. **A double asterisk indicates
there's a link to an audio version at the bottom of this page. ***A triple asterisk indicates
there's a link to a video version at the bottom of this page.
| DARK TANGOS (2011) | Info | PDF | "Not only a great entertainment, but a meditation on the true meaning of justice." |
| SAY GOODBYE (1999) | Info | PDF | "The Citizen Kane of rock and roll novels." |
| SLAM (1990) | Info | PDF | "Plot twists worthy of Thomas Pynchon." |
| GLIMPSES (1993) | Info | PDF | A "surreal and riveting ode to the sixties." |
| FRONTERA (1984) | Info | PDF | "Hard-edged and colorful and relentless." |
| DESERTED CITIES OF THE HEART (1988) | Info | PDF | "A taut political thriller and a transcendent apocalyptic fantasy." |
| BLACK & WHITE (2008) | Info | PDF | "Both a page-turner and an urban documentary with a big, fierce heart." |
| The Gate of the Fallen Angel | HTML | PDF | ISIS vs. Art |
| The Black Sun | HTML | | Stage magicians vs. Hitler, hosted by Subterranean Magazine. |
| Doctor Helios | HTML | | Spies in 1963 Egypt, hosted by Subterranean Magazine. |
| Canto MCML | HTML | PDF | When are we, anyway? |
| Application | HTML | PDF | A good job is hard to find. |
| Merry Christmas from the Kensingtons | HTML | PDF | Ghosts of Christmas cards past. |
| A Box of Thunder | HTML | | Utopia vs. los narcos. |
| Primes | HTML | PDF | The population of the world doubles in 24 hours. |
| White City*** | HTML | PDF | Tesla and the Columbian Exhibition of 1893. |
| Wild for You | HTML | PDF | Some trips seem to last forever. |
| Deserted Cities of the Heart | HTML | PDF | A short-story warmup for the novel. |
| Scales | HTML | PDF | A lamia is loose on the SMU campus. |
| Secrets | HTML | PDF | Those lawyers--never did trust 'em. |
| The Death of Che Guevara | HTML | | Alternate history, hosted by Subterranean. |
| Odd Man Out | HTML | PDF | Claustrophobia and paranoia in outer space. |
| His Girlfriend's Dog | HTML | PDF | First published as a postcard insert. |
| Omphalos | HTML | PDF | Inspired by A.C. Doyle's goofier Professor Challenger stories. |
| The Best Part of Making Up | HTML | PDF | Love in the Instant Replay generation. |
| Oz | HTML | PDF | One of those alternate universe Kennedy assassination deals. |
• | Duck | HTML | PDF | Like Raymond Carver with stuffed animals. |
| Kidding Around | HTML | PDF | Teen torment in Tomball, Texas. |
| The Kiss | HTML | PDF | My first spy story. |
| Rake-Off | HTML | PDF | A very early homage to the suspense stories of Walter Tevis. |
| Plague | HTML | PDF | A light-hearted end-of-life-as-we-know-it story. |
| Promises | HTML | PDF | Bobby meets the aliens. |
| Blood Relations | HTML | PDF | Some kind of man-thing shambles out of the East Texas swamps. |
| Tinker's Damn | HTML | PDF | An android in love in my 1977 SF debut. |
| Language | HTML | PDF | An eternal question, rephrased. |
| Like the Gentle Rain | HTML | PDF | Brains in boxes poke fun at philosopher J.D. Bernal. |
• | The Long Denouement | HTML | PDF | Hard-boiled scribes and editors in a Raymond Chandler spoof. |
| Mystery Train | HTML | PDF | "Where's Elvis? What have you done with him?" |
| The Shoemaker's Tale | HTML | PDF | A bedtime story fit for a King. |
| Relay | HTML | PDF | Astronauts, malfunctions, parallel worlds, Kansas. |
| Dancers | HTML | PDF | Cancerous brains and dancing robots. |
| Snowbirds | HTML | PDF | Beware invaders from the future! |
| The Gene Drain | HTML | PDF | By request, something a bit more "cyberpunk." |
| Brujo | HTML | PDF | Casteñeda-style magic in 1980s Santa Fe |
| Stompin' at the Savoy | HTML | PDF | Knock-knock jokes, muties, and "Bob." |
| Jeff Beck | HTML | PDF | Rock and roll dreams mix with working class angst. |
| The War at Home | HTML | PDF | The ghost of Vietnam haunts the 1980s US. |
| Till Human Voices Wake Us | HTML | PDF | A mad scientist, a Caribbean island, a mermaid. |
| Nine Hard Questions about the Nature of the Universe | HTML | PDF | More flying saucers, sex, and quantum physics. |
| Gold | HTML | PDF | A Western with pirates and Marxist economics. |
| Soldier, Sailor | HTML | PDF | The "condensed novel" that grew up to be Frontera. |
| Tommy and the Talking Dog | HTML | PDF | Answer 3 questions and wear the magic shoes. |
| Kings of the Afternoon | HTML | PDF | A surrealistic Western starring Dean, Bogart, and Dietrich. |
| Dirty Work | HTML | PDF | An ex-football player investigates a rape case. |
• | Buyin' My Heartaches A Beer | HTML | PDF | Drinkin', cheatin', and dyin' in rural Texas. |
| Prodigal Son | HTML | PDF | The last of the Dan Sloane stories. |
| The Killing Season | HTML | PDF | The second Dan Sloane story. |
| Deep Without Pity | HTML | PDF | First of the Dan Sloane, Private Eye stories. |
| Stuff of Dreams* | HTML | PDF | What is more addictive than the inside of our own heads? |
| The Apparition | HTML | PDF | A 1980 ghost story that still spooks me. |
| Stoked | HTML | PDF | Hot skateboard action in this warmup for my novel Slam. |
| Twilight Time | HTML | PDF | Travel to a 1961 with aliens, flying saucers, and a prom. |
• | The Long Ride Out | HTML | PDF | My first Western, from the 70s, buffed in the 90s. |
| Americans* | HTML | PDF | Standalone version of Deserted Cities of the Heart, chapter 1. |
| Rebels | HTML | PDF | Chapter 2 of Deserted Cities, as published in Omni. |
| Cabracan | HTML | PDF | Chapter 3 of Deserted Cities, from Asimov's. |
| The Circle | HTML | PDF | By request, a Halloween story from the Twilight Zone. |
| Sitcom | HTML | PDF | Any resemblance to a certain 70s TV show is...a conspiracy? |
| Fractal Geometry | HTML | PDF | A quick hit of postmodernism from the late 1980s. |
• | Straws** | HTML | PDF | Original for FLF about inner vs. outer reality. |
• | Fear Itself | HTML | PDF | My first Christmas story. Not exactly a Hallmark card. |
• | Golfing Vietnam | HTML | PDF | A wedding and some impromptu golf. |
| Perfidia* | HTML | PDF | Based on mysteries surrounding the death of Glenn Miller. |
• | You Never Know | HTML | PDF | Contest entry for a 200-word romance involving a Beetle. |
| Lizard Men of Los Angeles* | HTML | PDF | A tribute to H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. |
| Steam Engine Time | HTML | PDF | A Western about Elvis. |
| Sticks | HTML | PDF | A very 80s rock and roll fantasy. |
• | Mark the Bunny | HTML | PDF | My first children's story. |
| Love In Vain | HTML | PDF | Inspired by a long article about serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. |
| Match | HTML | PDF | Fantasy tennis, anyone? |
| Castles Made of Sand | HTML | PDF | Literal and otherwise. |
| Flagstaff** | HTML | PDF | More thinly veiled autobiography. |
| Bob Welch and Avenue M | HTML | PDF | 1990 music journalism with new notes. |
| Introduction to When the Music's Over | HTML | PDF | From my 1991 non-violence anthology. |
• | Compassion in Clowes' Velvet Glove | HTML | PDF | An academic paper on slackers. |
| Confessions of an Ex-Cyberpunk | HTML | PDF | New York Times op-ed piece from 1991. |
| History as Swiss Cheese | HTML | PDF | Review of Greil Marcus's Lipstick Traces. |
| Kafkaland | HTML | PDF | Review of Thomas Palmer's Dream Science. |
• | Real Life | HTML | PDF | Unpublished piece about Phil Dick (and other stuff). |
| The Short, Unhappy Career of Lew Shiner, Tough- Guy Writer | HTML | PDF | Intro to the Dan Sloane stories (see above). |
• | Autosalvage | HTML | PDF | Review of the brilliant 1968 psychedelic album. |
| Wouldn't It Be Nice | HTML | PDF | Interviews with Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks. |
• | Glimpses | | PDF | Unsold adaptation of my World Fantasy Award-winning novel. |
• | The Next | | PDF | Unsold action picture about vampire lawyers. Semifinalist in PAGE screenwriting awards. |
| Straws | | MP3 | Read by Jeff Archer Black. |
| Flagstaff | | MP3 | Read by Jeff Archer Black. |
| Pestilenza | | HTML | Italian translation of "Plague" by my friend Aldo Carpanelli. |
| Linguaggio | | HTML | Italian translation of "Language" by my friend Aldo Carpanelli. |
| Application | | HTML | French translation by my friend Guy d'Andigné. |
| The Best Part of Making Up | | HTML | French translation by my friend Guy d'Andigné. |
| Sitcom | | ebook | Italian translation from Urban Apnea Edizioni. |
| The Circle | | ebook | Chinese translation by Gong Yu. |
• | Les cités abandonnées du coeur | | PDF | French translation of "Deserted Cities of the Heart" by Claire Michel. |
• | Perfidia | | PDF | French translation by Claire Michel. |
• | Люди-Ящерицы из Лос-Анджелеса | | PDF | Russian translation of "Lizard Men of Los Angeles" by Sergey Artomov. |
• | Roba da sogno | | HTML | Italian translation of "Stuff of Dreams" by Aldo Carpanelli. |
• | Разочарование | | PDF | Russian translation of "Perfida" by Sergey Artomov. |
| Americanos | | HTML | Spanish translation of "Americans" by Mauricio-José Schwarz. |
• | Erik Jacobsen | HTML | | Brilliant producer of Tim Hardin, Spoonful, and others. |
• | John Sebastian | HTML | | Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and deeply funny guy. |