Vylar Kaftan :: writer of science fiction & fantasy

Vylar Kaftan

Bibliography

May 11th, 2006
  • Black Doe - The Pagan Anthology of Short Fiction: 13 Prize-Winning Tales, forthcoming
  • The Luckiest Street in Georgia - Realms of Fantasy, forthcoming
  • What President Polk Said - Phantom, forthcoming
  • Death Follows Us to Restaurants - Lone Star Stories, forthcoming
  • Christmas Wedding - Warrior Wisewoman, forthcoming
  • Disarm - Abyss & Apex, 2008
  • We come in peace / We mean no harm / Put down your weapons / We’ll save you, save you. It’s the song inside me—the song every writer knows he has, and just can’t find when he looks for it.

  • The Girl Next Door - Sybil’s Garage, 2008
  • Her name is Maranda, and she’s running naked across my snow-covered yard.

  • Pointing at the Moon - COSMOS, 2007
  • Emotion crept into my voice. “I want to meet the Om. I want to know what they look like, and how they think. Are they like us, or unimaginably different? I want to know.”

  • Scar Stories - Bandersnatch, 2007
  • We pick up the shards and cut each other, glass on skin, liquid with liquid, hoping to cut through to the bone and beyond.

  • Godivy - Paper Cities, 2007
  • But his photocopier is special. She’s the mother of his first hundred duplicates, and only one of them is smudged. She’s good for breeding and he likes that about her.

  • Something Wicked This Way Plumbs - Shimmer, 2007

    Candy streamed out of the faucet like the entrails of a slaughtered piñata.

  • Kill Me - Helix, 2007

    Because it’s not every day you experience death. Only every three months.

  • Dinner Made Willing - The Town Drunk, 2007

    Hi, and welcome to Sessumian Consensual Chef, the cooking show for spiritual purists!

  • Galatea - Heliotrope, 2007

    The problem is that I’ve been here long enough to start dying. I lost two fingers last week. They fell off while I was sleeping. I found them next to my pillow in the morning, and put them in a shoebox with my big toe.

  • Civilization - Glorifying Terrorism, 2007

    How nice for you, that you look so good in jackboots and a uniform! Your secret police are so dangerous that they’re sexy. They kick the enemies of the State in the street, like Rockettes in steel-toed boots.

  • Blank Sexzra - Trabuco Road, 2006

    Blank Sexzra is a superhero with a cape no one can see.

  • Lydia’s Body - Clarkesworld, 2006

    The girl leaned against the door each morning, in the single room that had become her new home–her prison. She repeated to herself, in case she forgot: My name is Amanda Barnes. I’m twenty-six years old. I was born in 1980. I don’t belong here.

  • Keybones - ChiZine, 2006

    Her skeleton is a series of keys tied together with string. She has two hundred and six keys–large femur keys for locking dungeon cells, and tiny stirrup keys that were made for Victorian lockets.

  • Nine Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-Four Days - Abyss & Apex, 2006

    Where is justice? Where is justice in nine thousand four hundred ninety-four days?

  • Through the Cooking Glass - Raven Electrick, 2006

    The gingerbread people constructed more elaborate homes, each fancier than the last, with peppermint wheels and lemon drop decor.

  • Buddha’s Happy Family Jewels - Vestal Review, 2005

    Jackie says, “Chinese food is supposed to mix together on the plate.” I know him as Dave but he says he is Jackie.

  • She Called Me Baby - Strange Horizons, 2005

    My mother’s face looms in front of me, just as I last saw her, in court: dark-eyed, angular, a femme-fatale beauty. It’s the face I was heading towards, when I left ten years ago–the face that I have tattooed, scarred, and reshaped until it’s mine.

  • Sharksheep Suit - Lenox Avenue, 2004

    I been raising sharksheep since I was a kid, but I never made a suit before.

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