Recently, someone posted a list of her unfinished story projects and because I’m a magpie and must steal ooo! shiny! objects from others and put them in my own nest (and, admittedly, because I’m something of a masochist) I decided to do the same.

Going through my ideas folder was too depressing, so I’ve only listed things that I’d done some work on—at least a scene or two, though in some cases considerably more.  (That was somewhat depressing, too, but I’m hoping this may be a goad to action.)  Some of these stories are so close to being finished, but I just can’t seem to get them there, either because I’m missing some key plot element or because the character isn’t coming together as wanted, or whatever.  I threw in the unfinished novels, too.

Some of these stories and novels are creaky ancient and may never have their day, but many others are actively being worked on/thought about/added to here and there. Many of the stories are from the Dos Lunas County cycle, as noted, and I haven’t decided if they are stories in their own right or writing exercises to help me understand parts of my worldbuilding/characters.  Certainly all of them started out to be stories in their own right.  Other stories are connected to other novels/worldbuilding.

Unfinished Stories

The Bone Handler
Drowned Men
Like the Things of Man/Consider the Radiance – Dos Lunas
Moon Maiden – Dos Lunas
Anne of the Daisy Chains – Dos Lunas
The Buried Crosses – Dos Lunas
The Persecutors – Dos Lunas
The Gift of Hands – Dos Lunas
White Ladies, Black Dogs – Dos Lunas
Ramona! The Chickens! (though this has largely been subsumed into Venus in Transit) – Dos Lunas
The Story Shaman – Dos Lunas
The Smell of Feathers/The Last of My Eggs
Ghost Flesh
Green Horse Bone
The Green Ones
Heart of the Western Tide (though this shows novelistic pretensions)
In the Black – Dos Lunas
Jim Doesn’t Bring Me Flowers
Coyote Beautiful – ashers
Crimson’s Story – ashers
Release the Hounds – ashers
Windows and Doors – ashers
Attack of the Leech Women
The Bargain
Distant Fire
Goblin Mountain (again, novelistic pretensions)
Karaoke Moon
Milas/My Beautiful Revolution
A Singing in the Blood – vampires
Spider House
Van Helsing Was a Friend of Mine – vampires
The Zen Vampire – vampires
A New Face on Morning
Nightingale in Blue
The Psychometrist
The Glass Bouquet
Step Through
The Old Vampires’ Home – vampires
Beckoner

Unfinished Novels

933 Cherokee Street
The Great Awakening (sequel to A Rain of Angels)
A Taste of Night – Vicki Petersson used that title, alas
Beneath a Hollow Moon – Dos Lunas
Blood Boogie – vampires (sequel to Blood Geek)
Boho Jungle/Looking for Elijah
The Bone Chapel (novella and largely subsumed in Shivery Bones I sometimes think of making a novel from it) – vampires
Burn
Midnight Ragas – vampires
Moving On – vampires
A Little Bag of Dreams
Red Demon
Rough Magic
Seven Veils/The Ice Wizard
The Confessions of Thomasina
Time in a Bottle
The Guardians (that one’s for jmeadows if she happens to read this)