Bibliography

A comprehensive (eventually) list of Van Pelt's published work organized by date.

* Bibliography at ISFDB
* Bibliography at Writing Worlds

## Short Stories

### 1991

* *No Small Change* - *After Hours* (1991) and *Curious Fictions* (Sep 5, 2019)
* *Waiting for the Nightingale* - *Lost Creek Letters* (1991)

### 1992

* *Cat Death* - *The California Quarterly* (1992)
* *The Love of Children* - *The Indiana Review* (1992)

### 1993

* *Plant Life* - *Aberrations* #9 (1993), *Curious Fictions* (Nov 7, 2019), *The Best of James Van Pelt* (2020)

### 1995

* *Eight Words* - *Pulphouse* #19 (1995), *Cemetery Sonata* (1999), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)

### 1997

* *Nine Fingers on the Flute* in *Adventures in Sword and Sorcery* (1997), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *The Big One* in *Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact*

### 1998

* *The Death Dwarves* - *Talebones* #13 (1998), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *Happy Ending* - *Realms of Fantasy* (1998), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *Home* - *Realms of Fantasy* (1998), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *Landscapes* in *Star Anthology*
* *The Love of Falmoth* - *Odyssey* (1998)
* *Miss Hathaway's Spider* - *Talebones* (1998), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002), *Curious Fictions* (Oct. 11, 2018)
* *O Tannenbaum* (1998)
* *Teaching* - *Star Anthology* #1 (1998)

### 1999

* *Ark Ascension* - *Analog: Science Fiction and Fact* (1999), *Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille* (2012)
* *Christmas Stalking* (1999)
* *The Diorama* - *Transversions* (1999), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille* (1999)
* *The Gift* (1999)
* *The Hounds of Winter* (1999) with Brian A. Hopkins
* *Nor a Lender Be* - *Analog* (1999), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *A Real Myth for an Imaginary Time* (1999)
* *Shark Attack: A Love Story* - *Weird Tales* (1999), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *Two in the Multiverse* (1999)
* *Voices* - *Altair* #3 (1999), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)

### 2000

* *The Comeback* - *Analog: Science Fiction and Fact* (2000), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *Friday, After the Game* (2000)
* *Howl Above the Din* (2000)
* *Once They Were Monarchs* (2000)
* *One in a Thousand* (2000)
* *Parallel Highways* - *After Shocks* (2000), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *Road Decoy* (2000)
* *Savannah Is Six* (2000)
* *That He Might Yet Find the Unknown* (2000)

### 2001

* *Catching Rays* (2001)
* *Father's Dragon* (2001)
* *In the Days Still Left* (2001) with Brian A. Hopkins
* *The Infodict* - *Asimov's* (2001), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *The Last Age Should Show Your Heart* (2001)
* *Night Sweats* (2001)
* *Resurrection* - *Analog: Science Fiction and Fact* (2001), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *The Saturn Ring Blues* - *On Spec* (2001), *The Radio Magician and Other Stories* (2009), *The Best of James Van Pelt* (2020)
* *The Stars Underfoot* (2001)
* *What Weena Knew* - *Analog: Science Fiction and Fact* (2001), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *Working Pushout* (2001)
* *The Yard God* - *Talebones* (2001), *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)

### 2002

* *The Boy Behind the Gate* (2002)
* *Deathlehem* (2002)
* *Do Good* (2002)
* *Far from the Emerald Isle* (2002)
* *Finding Orson* - *Strangers and Beggars* (2002)
* *A Flock of Birds* (2002)
* *High-Stakes Test* (2002)
* *The Invisible Empire* (2002)
* *Its Hour Come Round* (2002)
* *The Last of the O-Forms* - *Asimov's Science Fiction* (2002), *The Last of the O-Forms and Other Stories* (2005), *The Best of James Van Pelt* (2020)
* *Notes from the Field* (2002)
* *Nothing Is Normal* (2002)
* *Origin of the Species* (2002)
* *Perceptual Set* (2002)
* *The Safety of the Herd* (2002)
* *The Saint From Abdijan* (2002) - *Extremes: Darkest Africa* (2002), *Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille* (2012)
* *Small Town News* (2002)

### 2003

* *Lashawnda at the End* (2003)
* *Sacrifice* (2003)
* *The Pair-a-Duce Comet Casino All Sol Poker Championships* (2003)
* *The Sound of One Foot Dancing* (2003)
* *The Long Way Home* (2003)
* *Different Worlds* (2003)

### 2004

* *A Wow Finish* (2004)
* *Where and When* (2004)
* *Echoing* (2004)

### 2005

* *The Inn at Mount Either* (2005)
* *One Day, in the Middle of the Night* (2005)
* *The Ice-Cream Man* (2005)

### 2006

* *Tiny Voices* (2006)
* *The Road's End* (2006)
* *The Small Astral Object Genius* (2006)

### 2007

* *Of Late I Dreamt of Venus* (2007)
* *How Music Begins* (2007)

### 2008

* *Floaters* (2008)
* *Harvest* (2008)
* *Just Before Recess - Flash Fiction Online* (2008), *Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille* (2012), *The Best of James Van Pelt* (2020)
* *The Light of a Thousand Suns* (2008)
* *Rock House* (2008)

### 2009

* *Working the Moon Unit* (2009)
* *The Radio Magician* (2009)
* *Where Did You Come From? Where Did You Go?* (2009)
* *Solace* (2009)
* *Working the Moon Circuit* (2009)

### 2011

* *Late Homework* (2011)
* *Values, Vision and Mission* (2011)
* *Classroom of the Living Dead* (2011)

### 2013

* *The Family Rocket* (2013)
* *The Time Travel Device* (2013)
* *The Hareton K-12 County School and Adult Extension* (2013)

### 2014

* *Aubrey Comes to Yellow High* - *Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show* (2014), *The Best of James Van Pelt* (2020)
* *This Gray Rock, Standing Tall* (2014)
* *My Father and the Martian Moon Maids* (2014)
* *The Story Will Win a Hugo* (2014)
* *The Turkey Raptor* (2014)

### 2015

* *Everything's Unlikely* (2015)
* *On the Road with the American Dead* (2015)
* *Experience Arcade* (2015)

### 2016

* *Apprentice* - *Fantasy Scroll Magazine* (2016)
* *The Continuing Saga of Tom Corbett: Space Cadet* (2016)
* *Death of a Starship Poet* (2016)
* *Falling Out of Downey* (2016)
* *Ghost Ship* (2016)
* *The Heated Door* (2016)
* *The Lawn Fairy War* (2016)
* *The Lies* (2016)
* *Mars, Aphids, and Your Cheating Heart* (2016)
* *Maybe If One Person Less* (2016)
* *In Memoriam* (2016)
* *No One Is So Fierce* (2016)
* *Orphaned* (2016)
* *The Silk Silvered Skulls of Millen Mir* (2016)
* *Three Paintings* (2016)
* *Titan Descanso* (2016)
* *We Have Always Lived in the Hamlet* (2016)
* *Weaponized Ghosts of the 96th Infantry* (2016)
* *Witch in the Woods* (2016)
* *Writing Advice* (2016)
* *Zoo Hack* (2016)

### 2017

* *Pirate Readers* (2017)
* *The Children's Collection* (2017)
* *The Sword Imperial* (2017)
* *proLong* (2017)
* *The Golden Daffodils* (2017)
* *Five Dollars for a Ticket* (2017)
* *High Sulfur Hot Springs and Camping Park* (2017)
* *Fine Dining During the Apocalypse* (2017)
* *Mother Azalea's Sad Home for Forgotten Adults* (2017)
* *Coyote Moon* (2017)
* *Pandora's Gun (excerpt)* (2017)
* *The Elevator Illimitable* (2017)
* *Housekeeping* (2017)
* *Amos Adams Stops a Lynching* - *On Spec* (2017)

### 2018

* *They Don't Feed the Garden* (2018)
* *Big Thompson* (2018)
* *Queen of the River: The Harbor Hope* (2018)
* *Graduation in the Time of Yog-Sothoth* (2018)

### 2019

* *Norwegian Wood* (2019)
* *Second Quarter and Counting* (2019)
* *SeeApp* (2019)
* *Skinny Dipping with the Old Ones* (2019)

### 2020

* *Anthroentomology* - *Deep Magic* (2020)