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Fiction

Books

The Last Vanishing Man and Other Stories (Third Man Books, 2023)

Blood: Stories (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)

Fiction Online

Rare Bindings
The Dark, March 2024

The Testament of the Puppeteer
matthewcheney.net, January 2024 (previously unpublished)

A Short History of Decay
Underland Arcana, Issue 10, Summer 2023

At the Edge of the Forest
matthewcheney.net, January 2022 (previously unpublished)

Hunger
The Dark, December 2021

A Suicide Gun
matthewcheney.net, February 2021 (previously unpublished)

The Last Vanishing Man
Web Conjunctions, August 2015

On the Government of the Living: A Parable
Interfictions Online, November 2014

How Far to Englishman’s Bay
Nightmare, August 2013

Walk in the Light While There is Light 
Failbetter.com, January 2012

A True and Reliable Account of the Attempted Daylight Robbery of the First National Bank of Northfield, Minn. by the Notorious James-Younger Gang, as Related by a Witness to the Events
The Revelator, vol 136, no. 1, 2011

Revelations
Sunday Salon, November 2009

The Art of Comedy
Web Conjunctions, September 2006

Fragments
Rabid Transit: Menagerie, 2005

Heights
Pindeldyboz, 2005

Getting a Date for Amelia
Failbetter.com, 2001

Fiction In Print

“The Blind God’s Game”, Azathoth: Ordo ab Chao, August 2023
“A Liberation”, Conjunctions 73, fall 2019
“After the End of the End of the World”, Outlook Springs, issue 6 (fall 2019)
“Where’s the Rest of Me?”, Wilde Stories 2017 (originally published in Blood: Stories)
“Mass”, Conjunctions 66, spring 2016
“The Box”, Outlook Springs, issue 1 (winter 2016)
“Killing Fairies”, A Cappella Zoo 15, Fall 2015Best Gay Stories 2016
“Patrimony”, Black Static 42
“Lacuna”, Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, 2013; Wilde Stories 2014
“The Island Unknown”, Unstuck issue 2, 2012
“Lonesome Road”, Icarus, Winter 2012
“Last Drink Bird Head”, Last Drink Bird Head, 2009
“How to Play with Dolls”, Weird Tales #352, 2008
“The Last Elegy”, Logorrhea, 2007
“The Lake”Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #21, November 2007
“A Map of the Everywhere”, Interfictions, 2007
“The Voice”, The Flash, 2007
“In Exile”, Mythic, 2006
“New Practical Physics”, Say…What’s the Combination, 2006
“Blood”, One Story, 2006
“Quitting Dreams” (with Jeffrey Ford), Electric Velocipede #11, 2006
“Variables”, Abyss & Apex, 2005
“Prague”, Ideomancer, 2004

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