Bibliography

Minutes

Published Stories

in Anthologies, Collections, Journals & Online

Contents:

List of Abbreviations:

• [N] = Nights with Giordano Bruno (2000)
• [M] = Monkey Miss Her Now (2004)
• [T] = Trouble in Mind (2005)
• [E] = EMO (2008)
• [K] = Kingdom of Alt (2010)
• [A] = The Annotated Tree Worship (2017)
• [GS] = Ghost Stories (2019)
• [H] = Haunts (2024)
• [U] = Uncollected

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Works of Fiction:
(2000-2024)

1. Nights with Giordano Bruno. ISBN 0-9582225-0-9. Wellington: Bumper Books, 2000. (30/9/97-13/12/99 / 8/11/00) [novel / xii + 224 pp. / 50,937 wds]


2. Monkey Miss Her Now & Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know. ISBN 0-476-00182-X. Auckland: Danger Publishing, 2004. [short stories / 138 pp. / 24,632 wds]:
   Monkey Miss Her Now [Mon coeur mis à nu] (by Jack Ross)
   
   1. Robinsonade (18/8-9/10/96) [pp. 11-18 / 2467 wds]
   2. Adiós DOS (2/7-4/9/97) [pp. 19-30 / 3102 wds]
   3. Tango Summer (4/11-4/12/98) [pp. 31-43 / 2671 wds]
   4. On Love (29/7-2/8/03) [pp. 44-51 / 1956 wds]
   5. Tahiti in 1978 (22/9-17/10/00) [pp. 52-66 / 1938 wds]
   6. The Great New Zealand Vortex (26/2-10/5/97) [pp. 67-82 / 3685 wds]
   7. A Strange Day at the Language School (7-30/6/01) [pp. 83-93 / 3055 wds]
   Everything a Teenage Girl Should Know (by Lorraine West)
   
   8. The Yellow Room (31/8-1/9/01) [pp. 97-100 / 936 wds]
   9. Bird-girl (30/7-2/8/03) [pp. 101-07 / 2639 wds]
   10. The Money Pit (3/8/03) [pp. 109-15 / 2368 wds]
   11. The Red Room (28-30/8/01) [pp. 117-25 / 2943 wds]
   12. Waiwera (4/8/03) [pp. 127-33 / 2052 wds]
   13. The Blue Room (2-5/9/01) [pp. 135-38 / 1117 wds]


3. Trouble in Mind. ISBN 0-9582586-1-9. Auckland: Titus Books, 2005. (31/8/99-1/6/2001 & 30/10-25/12/2000 / 30/8-1/9/04) [novella / ii + 102 pp. / 26,091 wds]:
   1. The House of the Nightmare
   Count Cipher
   2. Grandmother
   Spiderweb collage
   3. Friends
   Dieb
   4. The Séance
   Ice-planet
   5. The Tower Room
   Doppelgänger collage
   6. Diary Entries
   Ars combinatoria
   7. Job’s Comforter
   Experiences not included in the book
   8. Protection
   Ten Days that Shook the World
   9. Dead Eyes
   All Save You
   10. Home
   Drit-sker
   11. Ereshkigal
   Goddess collage


4. The Imaginary Museum of Atlantis. ISBN 0-9582586-8-6. Auckland: Titus Books, 2006. (15/7-2/12/01 / 1-24/11/05) [novel / 164 pp. / 32,640 wds]:
   • Where am I? Cuttings (20/1-13/2/2008) [website / 77 posts]
   • Who am I? Automatic Writing (20/1-13/2/2008) [website / 75 posts]


5. EMO. ISBN 978-1-877441-07-3. Auckland: Titus Books, 2008. (15/8/06-22/5/08) [novel / vi + 258 pp. / 67,302 wds]:
   • EVA AVE (15/8/06-3/9/07) [website / 34 posts]
   • Moons of Mars (16/8/06-3/9/07) [website / 38 posts]
   • Ovid in Otherworld (15/8/06-3/9/07) [website / 41 posts]


6. Kingdom of Alt. ISBN 978-1-877441-15-8. Auckland: Titus Books, 2010. [short stories / iv + 240 pp. / 40,941 wds]:
   Marginalia
   
   1. Trauma: Journal (21/7-5/8/05; 14/4-21/5/98) [pp. 5-20 / 4266 wds]
   2. Haiku Diary (4/3-1/4/04; 29/8-12/9/05) [pp. 21-47 / 3973 wds]
   3. The Isle of the Cross (18/9-4/12/05) [pp. 49-61 / 4432 wds]
   4. The Purloined Letter (5-31/10/05) [pp. 63-79 / 5246 wds]
   5. Notes found inside a text of Bisclavret (16/11/04-16/9/05) [pp. 81-91 / 5757 wds]
   6. Finding His Stash (29/9-15/10/05) [pp. 93-103 / 3849 wds]
   7. antaŭ la katastrofo / Before the Disaster (30/11/07-14/2/08) [pp. 105-26 / 3094 wds]
   8. Coursebook found in a Warzone: A Whodunit (11/6/08-11/2/09) [pp. 127-239 / 9032 wds]
      • Banned Books (19/10-13/12/08) [website / 45 posts]
      • Crisis Diaries (19/10/08-3/1/09) [website / 29 posts]


7. The Annotated Tree Worship. Auckland: Paper Table, 2017. (23/11/17) [novel]:
   • Draft Research Portfolio. ISBN 978-0-473-41328-6. (26/8/12-29/1/13; 8/6/13-16/7/13) [novella / iv + 88 pp. / 22,286 wds]:
     1. Vastation
     2. Voyage dans la lune
   • List of Topoi. ISBN 978-0-473-41329-3. (21/11/13-5/3/14) [novella / iv + 94 pp. / 23,367 wds]:
     1. Breaking
     2. Entering
     3. Marshes
     4. Shores
     5. Margins
     6. Tomb
     7. Cave
     8. Labyrinth
     9. Eros
     10. Dreams
     11. Pictures
     12. Food
     13. Goddess
   • Tree Worship (6/1/11-12/8/12) [website / 33 posts / 13,638 wds]:
     1. The Great Wall of China
     2. The Double
     3. Tree Worship
     4. Self / Counterself
     5. Vastation
     6. Two Falls
     7. Featherston
     8. Dire Straits
     9. Featherstone
     10. Legacy
     11. Concepts Cross in Mist
     12. Not everyone can get an 'A'
     13. Marooned
     14. Advice on Essay-writing
     15. Ghost Stories
     16. Class Discourse
     17. Research Assumptions
     18. Pity what you can’t change
     19. Featherston Tales
     20. I can’t even tell
     21. Cairo the Victorious
     22. Feb 4. Disappointment
     23. Trans-Tasman Relations
     24. Life in the Tararuas
     25. Coral Burrows
     26. Delphi
     27. Mercator’s Projections
     28. Forest & Demarcation Zone
     29. Mercator & Nostradamus
     30. Family Portrait
     31. Time-slips
     32. Never give up
     33. End of Term


8. Ghost Stories. ISBN 978-0-9951165-5-9. 99% Press. Auckland: Lasavia Publishing, 2019. [short stories / 140 pp. / 38,133 wds]:
   1. The Classic New Zealand Ghost Story (17/1/15-25/7/16) [pp. 9-13 / 1603 wds]
   Stories:
   
   2. Eketahuna (7-13/12/11) [pp. 17-26 / 4217 wds]
   3. The Scam (25/12/01-13/9/02) [pp. 27-29 / 836 wds]
   4. Featherston (1-17/1/11) [pp. 31-34 / 1267 wds]
   5. Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World (6/2-27/4/13) [pp. 35-52 / 3728 wds]
   6. Is it Infrareal or is it Memorex? (11-17/11/14) [pp. 53-60 / 2205 wds]
   7. Company (13-14/12/14) [pp. 61-68 / 2910 wds]
   8. General Grant in Paeroa (12/9-24/11/15) [pp. 69-78 / 2796 wds]
   9. Brothers (20-23/12/15) [pp. 79-82 / 1512 wds]
   10. Catfish (14-28/12/17) [pp. 83-92 / 3190 wds]
   The Cross-Correspondences:
   
   11. Paragraphs (4/6/18-26/1/19) [pp. 94-118 / 8563 wds]
   12. Kipling and the Cross-Correspondences (6/6/18-18/1/19) [pp. 119-31 / 3615 wds]
   Notes & Sources [pp.133-37 / 1512 wds]


9. Haunts. ISBN 978-1-991083-17-3. 99% Press. Auckland: Lasavia Publishing, 2024. [short stories / 202 pp. / 57,457 wds]:
   1. On the Road to Nowhere
      Revisiting Samuel Butler’s Erewhon (18/2-1/12/15) [pp. 9-23 / 4250 wds]
   Stories:
   
   2. In the Le Fanu Museum (12-13/7-27/8/19) [pp. 27-36 / 3434 wds]
   3. The Station (15/11/19-27/1/20) [pp. 37-44 / 2704 wds]
   4. The Cat’s Veto (13/12/19-27/1/20) [pp. 45-50 / 1842 wds]
   5. Skeleton tracks (18-19/11/21) [pp. 51-52 / 423 wds]
   6. Ghosting (18-24/3/22; 22/4/22) [pp. 53-65 / 4316 wds]
   7. The Interrupted Journey (9/12/20-16/7/21) [pp. 66-70 / 1369 wds]
   8. Wellington (7/6/22-21/9/23) [pp. 71-78 / 2916 wds]
   9. Mythago Wood (19/5/22-16/8/23) [pp. 79-83 / 1466 wds]
   10. The Missing Pages (26/7-15/8/23) [pp. 84-91 / 2294 wds]
   Cartographies of the Afterlife: (16/1/22-20/9/23)
   
   11. Preface: The Treasure House (21-24/6/22) [pp. 95-101 / 1694 wds]
   12. The Haunted Bookshop (30/1-8/2/22-19/9/23) [pp. 102-37 / 12053 wds]
   13. Suicide Note (16-29/1; 13-15/4/22-20/9/23) [pp. 138-94 / 16916 wds]
   Notes & Sources [pp.195-201 / 1272 wds]


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Published Stories:
(1997-2023)

1. “Robinsonade." Pander 2 (1997): 14-15. [M]
2. “Adiós DOS." Pander 6/7 (1999): 18-20. [M]
3. [as G. Bruno] “Grafton Amours." Pander 9 (1999): 18-19. [N]
4. “The Great Hunger.” A Brief Description of the Whole World 14 (1999): 34-37. [N]
5. “Tango Summer.” evasion 2 (2000): 20-27. [M]
6. “Tahiti in 1978.” brief 23 (2002): 36-50. [M]
7. “A Strange Day at the Language School.” Landfall 203 (2002): 119-25. [M]
8. "The Scam: Hong Kong – 2001." brief 25 (2002): 13-16. [GS]
9. “The Great New Zealand Vortex.” evasion online 2 (4) & 2 (5) (4/03-6/03) [M]
10. “The Yellow Room.” brief 27 (2003): 94-96. [M]
11. “Bird Girl.” evasion online (12/03-1/04) [M]
12. [as Claire Talbot] "Trauma: Journal." Where Will Massey Take You? Life Writing 2. Ed. Jack Ross. ISBN 0-473-09551-3 (Massey University: School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2005): 128-45. [K]
13. "The Isle of the Cross." Myth of the 21st Century: An Anthology of New Fiction. Ed. Tina Shaw & Jack Ross. ISBN 0-7900-1098-4 (Auckland: Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd, 2006): 84-94. [K]
14. “The Purloined Letter.” brief #35 – A Brief World Order (2007): 14-33. [K]
15. “Notes found inside a text of Bisclavret.” Percutio 1 (2007): 60-69. [K]
16. “Fever-dreams: from Ovid in Otherworld.” Magazine 5 - Utu, Justice (2007): 83-86. [E]
17. “The Cat: Extract from EMO.” brief #36 (2008) – The NZ Music Issue: 31-40. [E]
    • “The Cat.” Music by Padmanabha Fischlinger. [Brief #36 CD: track 7]. [E]
    • “The Cat." With backing music by Padmanabha Fischlinger. Titus Books: A Platform for New Writing. [visited 31/3/08]. [E]
18. “from Before the Disaster.” Percutio 2 (2008): 74-80. [K]
19. “Head-hunter: from Ovid in Otherworld.” Traffic in Gold: Montana Poetry Day, 2008. Music CD by Anna Rugis / Poetry by Jack Ross (Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 2009). [E]
20. “The Pedestrian Crossing.” Bravado 16 (2009): 7-8. [K]
21. “Featherston.” Starch: A New Zealand Literary Journal 1 (2011): 71-74. [GS]
22. “Ars Combinatoria." Titus Books: A Platform for New Writing. (4/8/11). [T]
23. “Eketahuna.” Tree Worship. (3/1/12). [GS]
    • "Eketahuna." Influence and Confluence: East and West. A Global Anthology on the Short Story. Edited by Maurice A. Lee. ISBN 978-7-5675-5183-1 (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2016): 388-795. [GS]
24. “Miss Herbert." Verbivoracious Festschrift Volume Three: The Syllabus. Ed. G. N. Forester and M. J. Nicholls. ISBN 978-981-09-3593-1. Singapore: Verbivoracious Press, 2015. 209-10. [U]
25. “Is it Infrarreal or is it Memorex? Robert Bolaño’s Savage Detectives and the Eternal Avant-garde.” Landfall 230 (November 2015): 89-96. [GS]
26. “Leaves from a Diary of the End of the World.” brief 53 (2015): 80-97. [GS]
27. "On the Road to Nowhere: Revisiting Samuel Butler’s Erewhon." Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand. Ed. Ingrid Horrocks & Cherie Lacey. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2016. 135-49. [H]
28. "Company." An Encounter in the Global Village: Selected Stories from the 14th International Conference on the Short Story in English (English-Chinese). Edited by Hengshan Jin. ISBN 978-7-5675-5217-3 (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2016): 366-77. [GS]
29. “Brothers.” brief 54 (2016): 99-104. [GS]
30. "The Classic New Zealand Ghost Story." The Imaginary Museum (25/7/16) [GS]
31. "Catfish." The Radiance of the Short Story: Short Fiction from around the Globe. Ed. Maurice A. Lee & Aaron Penn. (Lisboa: Editora Edições Humus, Lda, 2018): 551-58. [GS]
32. "The Storm." Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand. Ed. Michelle Elvy, Frankie McMillan & James Norcliffe (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2018): 188. [U]
33. “General Grant in Paeroa.” brief 56 (2018): 97-107. [GS]
34. "Kipling and the Cross-Correspondences." The Imaginary Museum (18/1/19) [GS]
35. "The Station." Food, Migration, and Diversity: The Many Flavors of the Short Story. Ed. Maurice A. Lee & Aaron Penn. (USA: Lee and Penn Publishing, 2021): 525-31. [H]
36. "77 Days". Poetry Shelf: Writings from lockdown. Ed. Paula Green (12/11/21) [U]
37. "Skeleton tracks." Breach of All Size: Small Stories on Ulysses, love and Venice. Ed. Michelle Elvy & Marco Sonzogni (Wellington: The Cuba Press, 2022): 80-81. [H]
38. "The Cat’s Veto." The Road Not Taken: A Global Short Story Journey. Maurice A. Lee & Aaron Penn (USA: Lee and Penn Publishing, 2023): 262-65. [H]
39. "The Interrupted Journey." The Imaginary Museum (2/5/23) [H]

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