Bread & Magic

Short Stories

“Crepuscular,” Shimmer (forthcoming). 

“This is Not Concrete,” Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #25, April 2010.

“On the Entropy of Species,” The Tangled Bank: Love, Wonder, and Evolution, edited by Chris Lynch, February 2010.

“Tío Gilberto and the Twenty-Seven Ghosts,” Realms of Fantasy, October 2009.

• To be reprinted in Wilde Stories 2010, an annual anthology of the year’s best gay speculative fiction published by Lethe Press (Coming in Fall 2010).
• Featured in io9.com‘s Weekend Short Story Club.
• Reprinted online on the Realms of Fantasy web site, May 2010. 
• Reprinted in podcast form in Podcastle 86, January 12, 2010.
• Reviewed in IROSF: “Light humored tale of the importance of human connections, with a memorable character in Gilberto. Recommended.”

“This is My Blood,” co-written with Chris Lynch, Dreaming Again anthology, edited by Jack Dann, Harper Collins/Eos, 2008.

• Honorable Mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois, June 2009. 
• Reviewed in The Australian: “Dreaming Again is chock-full of entertaining and thought-provoking short fiction. My favourite story is by new authors Ben Francisco and Chris Lynch: This is My Blood mixes a powerful combination of human religion, alien culture and first contact on an unknown planet in the distant future.”
• Reviewed in Australian Spec Fic in Focus

Nonfiction

“Battle of the Comic Book Mega-Crossovers: Final Crisis vs. Secret Invasion,” Fantasy Magazine, Feb. 12, 2009.

“The New Year in Speculative Fiction: The 2009 of Our Past Imaginations,” Fantasy Magazine, Jan 14, 2009.

“Top 12 Latino Superheroes,” Fantasy Magazine, Nov. 5, 2008.