Short Fiction and Novellas

By Robert G. Penner, sometimes under the pseudonym William Squirrell.

• “Ziggurat” 2024 North American Review

• “Five Biographies of Ted Kaczynski” 2024 Sundog Lit

• “Alpha” 2024 The /tƐmz/ Review

• “Incantation” 2024 Lenticular

• Yellow Springs Novella, 2021

• “Starship Interlocutions and Other Problems of Existence” 2021 Sci Phi Journal

• “Desolation Corner” 2021 The Future Fire

• “In the Armies of Hell All the Soldiers Are Kings” 2021 Coffin Bell

• “The Sea Became a Diamond Sheet” 2021 Daily Science Fiction

• “Yellowhead”2020 Reflex Press Website

• “Freud something something Sex something something Death” 2020 Molotov Cocktail

• “Shinkolobwe” 2020 Big Echo

• “Interregnum” 2020 Daily Science Fiction

• “Everything That Happens” 2020 Reckoning

• “Hackney” 2020 FlashFlood

• “Amplification” 2020 Dark Lane Anthology Volume Nine

•  “The Garden of Dead Ideas” 2019 Strange Constellations

•  “The Old Squid Pro Quo” 2019 The Airgonaut

• Let the Bastards Burn 2018 Novella, out of print

• “This Buddhafield Is Not Your Buddhafield” 2019 Interzone #279 (purchase required)

• “Orangeville” 2018 Hobart

• “I Was a Foot Soldier in the Vox Day Putsch” 2018 Big Echo

• “Fifteen Notes” 2018 Daily Science Fiction

• “They Built the New Jerusalem on the Ruins of the Old”  2018 The Future Fire

• “Lothar’s Head” 2018 Aphelion

• “Let’s not pretend everything is going to be OK” 2018 Flapperhouse #17

•  “Abishabis” 2017 Five on the Fifth

• “Elementary Satellite Two”  2017 Sundog Lit

• “Confidential Report on the Disturbance at Big Echo” 2017 Yellow Mama

• “Saint Ouroboros’ Day” 2017 The Colored Lens

• “Dream Eaters” 2017 Menacing Hedge

• “Z Rats!” 2017 decomP magazinE

• “All That You Are” 2016 The Molotov Cocktail

• “Pennywhistle” 2016 Cease, Cows

• “Dyson Sphere” 2016 Polar Borealis

• “Portrait of the Invincible Overlord as a Young Man” 2016 Fiction on the Web

• “Unmathematical” 2016 Space Squid

• “Fiddler’s Bend” 2016 Typehouse

• Teenage Cosmonaut Suicide Love Song and Time Dilation Club  2016 Daily Science Fiction

• “Bad Shit” 2016 Drabblecast

• “Jerusalem” 2016 Necessary Fiction

• “Clean” 2016 Dark Lane Anthology Vol. 3 (purchase required)

• “Li Po Drowned in the Moon” 2016 Monkeybicycle

• “So You’ve Decided to Invest in a Religion” 2016 The Fable Online

•  “Tineola Bissellellia” 2015 Pidgeonholes Vol. 3

• “Fighting in the Streets of the City of Time” 2015 Bewildering Stories

•  “Adiophoria” 2014 Bastion Science Fiction Magazine (purchase required)