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Michael H. Payne

Bio: Michael H. Payne lives along the Pacific coast south of Los Angeles, clerks at the local library, plays guitar and sings at the local Catholic church, and hosts a Saturday morning radio program at the local university--see http://www.kuci.org/~mpayne for more info on that. His first novel, The Blood Jaguar, is still available from Tor Books, his on-line comic strip Terebinth posts a new page every Thursday at http://www.pandora.xepher.net/terebinth, and the stories he writes and draws about a group of harvest mice appear in the New Horizons anthology published by Shanda Fantasy Arts.


1. Short [3263 words]My Vampire Cat, or Whatever by Michael H. Payne [Fantasy]
2. Short [6827 words]River Man by Michael H. Payne [Science Fiction]
3. Short [5733 words]How the First Question Mark was Built by Michael H. Payne [Fantasy]
4. Short [9303 words]Crow's Curse by Michael H. Payne [Fantasy]
5. Short [6506 words]Cold, Cold Ground by Michael H. Payne [Fantasy]
  1. Short [6506 words]Cold, Cold Ground by Michael H. Payne [Fantasy]
2. Long [90352 words]The Blood Jaguar by Michael H. Payne [Fantasy]
3. Short [9303 words]Crow's Curse by Michael H. Payne [Fantasy]
4. Short [5865 words]One Thin Dime by Michael H. Payne [Science Fiction]
5. Short [7057 words]The Language of Ghosts by Michael H. Payne [Science Fiction]

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1 My Vampire Cat, or Whatever [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  Just because the talking cat you meet keeps insisting he's NOT a talking cat but rather a vampire, well, that doesn't mean you have to believe him, does it? [Artwork by Shaun Tan] (Published: 1995) Sturgeon Award Nominee, Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF Award Winner

Words: 3263 - Reading Time: 9-13 min.
Category: Fantasy
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2 A Bag of Custard [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  One lone human finds himself in the midst of a dangerous game of cat and mouse (and dog and crow and...) during the furious battle for a bag of custard. [Artwork by Thomas Payne] (Published: 1994) Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF Honorable Mention

Words: 5453 - Reading Time: 15-21 min.
Category: Science Fiction
61 Reader Ratings:
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3 Cold, Cold Ground [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  A young mouse novice at St. Doliri's monastery comes to understand what his order is all about when a lizard warrior forces him to confront the truth of the Cold Cold Ground. [Artwork by Michael H. Payne] (Published: 1997)

Words: 6506 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
Category: Fantasy
27 Reader Ratings:
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4 Crow's Curse [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  Will Crow come to grips with his own animal nature? Or will he be eternally doomed under the gypsy squirrel's curse? One of the stories from which the author's novel The Blood Jaguar grew. [Artwork by Marilyn Scott-Waters] (Published: 1991) Writers of the Future Contest Finalist

Words: 9303 - Reading Time: 26-37 min.
Category: Fantasy
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5 How the First Question Mark was Built [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  Why are question marks shaped the way they are? This story won't actually give you the answer, but it will take you on an adventure involving a kid, his stuffed squirrel, skybears, and a mysterious realm accessed through a secret panel in the kid's closet. (Published: 1996)

Words: 5733 - Reading Time: 16-22 min.
Category: Fantasy
26 Reader Ratings:
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6 Mange [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  Three bored kittens listen to their Aunt Tarin's story about her role in the Empress's plan to take over all of settled space. (Published: 2000)

Words: 6067 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
Category: Science Fiction
20 Reader Ratings:
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7 One Thin Dime [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  The green fuzzy dragon perched on Donna's bookcase isn't the stuffed animal he pretends to be, and when he suspects Donna's boyfriend of stealing some of the dimes from his hoard... [Artwork by Marilyn Scott-Waters] (Published: 1994) Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF Honorable Mention

Words: 5865 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Science Fiction
83 Reader Ratings:
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8 Painting the Roses Red [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  If Laurel and Hardy were reincarnated as a genetically-engineered otter and badger in a post-apocalyptic Oakland, CA, something like this might very well happen to them. [Artwork by Marilyn Scott-Waters] (Published: 1995) Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF Honorable Mention

Words: 6584 - Reading Time: 18-26 min.
Category: Science Fiction
21 Reader Ratings:
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9 River Man [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  On a world where most of the people are rats and coatimundis, a cat dances down from the stars with a most unusual companion: a pink furless creature called a human who is trying to find her way back to her own earth. [3rd Place in the Asimov's Readers' Survey] (Published: 1993) Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF Honorable Mention, Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee

Words: 6827 - Reading Time: 19-27 min.
Category: Science Fiction
38 Reader Ratings:
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10 The Blood Jaguar [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  It's North America, but very little of what you know is the same. The sun still shines and the grass still grows, but there are no people. There are, or perhaps there aren't, twelve Curials--kit fox, dolphin, raven, lioness, and the rest--who intervene in the lives of the inhabitants. There are the inhabitants, a myriad of animals: mice, otters, meerkats, and buffalo, to name a few. They live in their towns and cities, pursuing their various occupations, having occasional celebrations ... and no... more info>> (Published: 1999)

Words: 90352 - Reading Time: 258-361 min.
Category: Fantasy
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11 The Language of Ghosts [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  A young human colonist and her eggplant-obsessed translator robot get caught up in an uprising of the natives against their invaders. [6th place in the Asimov's Readers' Survey] [Artwork by Marilyn Scott-Waters] (Published: 1997) Asimov's Reader's Choice Award Nominee, Gardner Dozois's Year's Best SF Honorable Mention

Words: 7057 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Science Fiction
42 Reader Ratings:
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12 The Moon Rabbit [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  When the first city on the Moon is threatened, only Kaya, a little girl coming to live there, and Taylor, a grouchy technician, can save it. That is, with the help of the Moon Rabbit, of course... (Published: 2002)

Words: 6308 - Reading Time: 18-25 min.
Category: Science Fiction
28 Reader Ratings:
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13 Why I'm Traveling With a Talking Cow [MultiFormat]
by Michael H. Payne
  Corn fairies, a baker's ghost, a shady sorcerer, and one upset cow: just another day for Magistrate Robur, trying to keep the peace in Her Majesty's kingdom. [This story appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine after Ms. Bradley complained in one of her editorials that people always sent her stories about dragons and unicorns--but never about cows. The author was more than happy to oblige.] [Artwork by Marilyn Scott-Waters] (Published: 1996)

Words: 5008 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Fantasy
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