• "The Anniversary," fantasque, Summer 2003; reprinted, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Purgatory's Pets Contest, Iss. 8, October 2007.
• "Blanchefleur and Noireau," Chimaera Serials, May 2007.
• "The Brothers Swann," Blood, Blade & Thruster: The Magazine of Speculative Fiction and Satire, Iss. 3, Fall 2007. (Story starts on page 59.)
• "Devlin," AlienSkin Magazine, Flash Fiction Section, Oct./Nov. 2005 issue.
• "Early Frost," Kaleidoscope, 1998-99.
• "The Exit," Kaleidoscope, 1998-99.
• "Fine Flying Things," Twisted Cat Tales, Ed. Esther Schrader, 2006. Read the review by Fred Patten.
• "In Our Boxes," Gothic.net, July 1998; reprinted, Best of the Rest 2, Ed. Brian Youmans, 1999.
• "The Isle of Skye," Visions, Vol. 1, Iss. 2, Spring 1987; reprinted, Moonlicht Nicht: The E-Zine of Supernatural Scotland, Ed. William Meikle, Iss. 5, 2003.
• "Kelmscott Manor: In the Attics," Challenging Destiny, No. 25, December 2007.
• "The King's Council," Visions, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, Spring 1988.
• "The Likeness of Her Lord," Legends of the Pendragon, Ed. James Lowder, 2002.
• "Memory Is Translucent," The Leading Edge: Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Iss. 47, April 2004.
• "Of Silence and Slow Time," F/SF #1, Ed. David Bain, 2005.
• "Paying Tribute," One Step Beyond: Rockin' Tales of the Fantastical, Subatomic Anthology: 01, Ed. Charity Heller Hogge, 2008.
• "Roland Unsung," Midnight Carnival, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 2000.
• "The Semantic Time Machine," Traps, DarkHart Press, Ed. Scott T. Goudsward.
• "The Sidhe," Visions, Vol. 2, Iss. 1, Winter 1988.
• "Silver as the Night," Whispering Spirits 2008 Flash Fiction Contest Showcase, Aug. 2008.
• "Single Sight," Worlds of Wonder: A Webzine of Fantasy and SF, Winter 2005.
• "Tattooed Ladies," Sybil's Garage, Vol. 1, Iss. 2, May 2005.
• "Things Not to Forget," Whispering Spirits Ezine, 2005 Flash Fiction Contest Showcase, November 20, 2005.
• "Three Queens Weeping," The Doom of Camelot, Ed. James Lowder, 2000.
• “Triptych,” Horror Garage, No. 4, 2001.
• "What Came After," Naked Snake Online, Sept. 2003.
• "Wings," Once Upon a World, online edition, 2004-05.

• "Afterwards, I Attempt to Return," Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Vol. 8, No. 3, Spring 2008.
• "Alabaster," MindFlights, Iss. 10, Oct. 20, 2008.
• "Alas, Poor Hart," The Black Lily, Iss. 10, Spring 2002.
• "All a Maid," Nod-y-Rit, Sept./Oct. 1993.
• "All the World's Sleep," Bellowing Ark, Vol. 15, No. 5, Sept./Oct. 1999.
• "Any Future (?) Among the Fir Pines," Quickenings, No. 55, 1990.
• "Anyone's Child," Ideomancer, Vol. 7, Iss. 1, March 2008.
• "Ariadne," Kaleidoscope, 1998-99.
• "Autumn Rain," Amber, Oct. 1991.
• “Blind Fire,” Icon, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2000.
• "Bone," Poe Little Thing, No. 3, June 2005.
• "Chained," Visions, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, Spring 1988.
• "The Cities: approximately 7 x 7 years later," Omnific, Vol. 1, No. 4, Jan. 1990.
• "The Classmate," Icon, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring 2000.
• "The Clone Assassin," Star*Line: Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, Vol. 30, Iss. 6, November/December 2007.
• "The Conquest of the Fog," Hob-Nob, Issue 58, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1992.
• “Courtship,” Prophetic Voices: An International Literary Journal, Vol. 15, 1991.
• "Crow," Bellowing Ark, Vol. 24, No. 2, March/April 2008.
• "A Different View," tight, Vol. 3, No. 5, 1992.
• "The Dispossessed," Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, No. 9, Summer 2008. Reprinted on Transcriptase, here.

  "Dreams of Flying," Bibliophilos, Vol. 7, No. 2, Poetry 2002.
• "Easter," Silver Wings, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 1990.
• “Elaine,” Hadrosaur Tales, Vol. 9, 2000.
• "The Faithless Sailor," Visions, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, Spring 1988. (Published with the sheet music I composed.)
• "Fanning Gulls," Bellowing Ark, Vol. 15, No. 5, Sept./Oct. 1999.
• “Farewell to Avalon,” Eldritch Science, No. 3, Feb. 1989; reprinted, The Gargoyle: A Gothic Review, Vol. 1, No.5, May/June, 1994
• “The Final Ploy,” Eldritch Science, No. 3, Feb. 1989; reprinted, Nod-y-Rit, Feb./Mar. 1992.
• “Fionnula,” The Leading Edge: Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, No. 26, Sept. 1992.
• "First Night," Kaleidoscope, 1998-99.
• "For David, with Love," Not One of Us, No. 22, Sept. 1999.
• “Gateway,” Orphic Lute, Winter 1988-89.
• "Ghost Fleet," Whispering Spirits Digital Magazine, November 2008, No. 19 Issue 2 of 2008.
• "The Gift," Currents, 1988-89.
• “The Girl and the Gulls,” Anthology: Poetry, Prose, Art, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2000.
• "Godolin's Remains," Contemporary Rhyme, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2006.
• "The Golden Age," Abyss & Apex, Iss. 21, 1st Quarter 2007; reprinted, The 2008 Rhysling Anthology: The Best SF, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2007, selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and edited by Drew Morse.
• "Gone the Sun," Tapestry, April 2006, No. 9 & 10.
• “Green,” Talebones: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy, No. 18, Winter 2000.
• "Green Likening to Last-Day Storms," Reflect, Vol. 10, No. 1, Summer 1989.
• “Guenever’s Choice,” The Black Lily, Iss. 10, Spring 2002.
• "The Hero Fergus," Bardic Runes, Vol. 7, 1993; The Gargoyle: A Gothic Review, Vol. 1, No.5, May/June, 1994.
• "Higher Than the Gulls," Silver Wings, Summer 1989.
• “His Last Day in the City,” The Plastic Tower, No. 10, Mar. 1992.
• "Holding Faerie," Aoife's Kiss, Vol. 6, No. 2, September 2007.
• "House of Dreams," The Cape Rock: A Gathering of Poets, Vol. 34, No. 2, Spring 2002.
• "I Am Bereft," Nod-y-Rit, Nov./Dec. 1992.
• "I Have Seen Too Much," Orphic Lute, Winter 1988-89.
• "I Sing Ophelia," Full Unit Hookup: A Magazine of Exceptional Literature, Iss. 9, Spring 2008.
• "I Wander in the Mists," Sonnet Writers, Vol. 1, 2006, selected from the entrants to the 2006 contest and published October 2007. (Online version posted December 13, 2006.)
• "If I Were a Harper," Nod-y-Rit, July/Aug. 1993.
• “In Fallen Astophel,” The Black Lily, Iss. 10, Spring 2002.
• "In the Grasp of the Wind," Visions, Vol. 2, Iss. 2, Spring 1988.
• "Internal Conflicts," Cradle Boxcars, 1993.
• "Irene's Tomb," Outer Darkness: Where Nightmares Roam Unleashed, Iss. 29, Spring 2004.
• "Jeanne," Nod-y-Rit, March/April 1992.
• "Lament for Lanis-Doon," Illumen, Autumn 2008.
• "Last Day at Seventeen," Quickenings, No. 56, 1990.
• "Late," Raven Poetrick (a publication of Raven Electrick: Tales of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror and Mystery), Halloween Contest Issue (Runner-Up), October 2001; audio version, Halloween Poetry Reading, Science Fiction Poetry Association, October 2006.
• "Left in Lance's Box," Warrior Poets: The Magazine of Medieval Poetry, No. 6, Nov./Winter 1999.
• "Let It Be the Last," Nod-y-Rit, June/July 1993.
• "Life Cycle," Unknowns, Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 1988.
• "Little Red Dress," City Primeval: Narratives of Urban Poetry, Vol. 4, No. 4, July 1999.
• "The Lord of My Dunn," Nod-y-Rit, Aug./Sept. 1993.
• "The Maid's Farewell to Lord Thorbjorn," Forms of Fancy, annual publication of Moot Points, Nov. 1992.
• "The Marinus Scriptorium," Nod-y-Rit, Oct./Nov. 1993.
• "The Marvelous Irai," Bardic Runes, Vol. 4, 1991.
• "Merlin," Bardic Runes, Vol. 4, 1991.
• "Mermaid," Full Unit Hookup: A Magazine of Exceptional Literature, Iss. 9, Spring 2008.
• "The Mind Behind the Eye," Miss Fit's Free Press, No. 7, Winter 1992.
• "The Minstrel," Herspectives, Vol. 5, Iss. 3, Oct. 1993.
• “The Minstrel’s Song,” Starsong, No. 14, Dec. 1990.
• “The Misty Glade,” Red Owl, No. 11, July 2000.
• "Molten Sanity," Currents, 1990-91.
• "Moonlit Fields," The Sword Review, Iss. 14, May 26, 2006; reprinted in Dwarf Stars 2007: The Best Speculative Poems of Ten Lines or Less from 2006, Ed. Deborah P. Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson, Science Fiction Poetry Association.
• "My Delight," tight, Vol. 3, No. 5, 1992.
• "My Ship Is Going Home," Visions, Vol. 1, Iss. 2, Spring 1987.
• "Myself on Solitude," Reflect, Vol. 9, No. 4, Spring 1989.
• “A Natural View,” American Arts Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 1991.
• "On the Dark Sea," The Sounds of Poetry, Vol. 6, No. 30, April-June 1989.
• "The Order," Out o' the Blue Review, Vol. 3, No. 4, Feb./Mar. 1988.
• "Our Lady of Darkness," Wicked Hollow, Iss. 2, April 2002; audio version, 2007 Halloween Poetry Reading, Science Fiction Poetry Association, October 2007.
• "The Path of Man and Nature," Thanatopsis Wings, March 1988.
• "The Peasant Boy," Visions, Vol. 1, Iss. 2, Spring 1987; reprinted, Nod-y-Rit, Feb./Mar. 1992.
• "The Perfect Match," Sonnet Writers, Vol. 1, 2006, selected from the entrants to the 2006 contest and published October 2007.
• "Poets," Ear of Corn, No. 11, 1990.
• "Possibilities," Currents, 1991-92.
• “The Queen’s Revenge,” Edgar: Digested Verse, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2000.
• "Refreshment from Beyond the City's Grasp," Bellowing Ark, Vol. 24, No. 2, March/April 2008.
• "Renewal," New Life Wings, 1989.
• "Resistance," Orphic Lute, Vol. 40, No. 1, Spring 1990.
• "The Return," Eldritch Science, Snowsprinkle (Dec.) 1989.
• “Riding to Faery,” Mythic Delirium, Iss. 6, Winter/Spring 2002; reprinted, Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, Ed. Karen A. Romanko, Raven Electrick Ink, 2007.
• "Rildix Falls," Contemporary Rhyme, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2005; reprinted, The 2006 Rhysling Anthology: The Best SF, Fantasy and Horror Poetry of 2005, selected by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and edited by Drew Morse.
• “Saeve’s Doom,” Bardic Runes, Vol. 7, 1993.
• "Safe in Their Cryogenic Chambers," Raven Poetrick/Raven Electrick: Tales of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror and Mystery, March 2007.
• "Salvaging the Monitor," Cider Press Review, Vol. 8, 2007.
• "Scenic Overlook," Z Miscellaneous, Vol. 2, No. 3, May 1988; Blue Light Review, No. 12, Summer 1989.
• "Seasons," Poetry Forum, Vol. 2, No. 1, Sept. 1989.
• “Seasons of Darkness, Sun,” The Nocturnal Lyric, No. 26, 1992.
• "Seclusion," Hob-Nob, #58, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1992.
• "The Send-Off," Mythic Delirium, Iss. 18, Winter/Spring 2008.
• "The Serpent's Price," Hadrosaur Tales, "Voyages of Discovery: Special Fifth Anniversary Issue," Vol. 10, 2001.
• "Sleep," Kaleidotrope, Iss. 2, April 2007.
• "Snow Fort," Hob-Nob, #58, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1992.
• "Someday," tight, Vol. 3, No. 5, 1992.
• "Song to a Gull," Reflect, Vol. 9, No. 4, Spring 1989.
• "Sonnet No. 8,855," The Archer, Vol. 35, No. 2, Summer/Autumn 1990.
• "Starkness," Currents, 1990-91.
• "A Still Afternoon," Poetry Forum, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1990.
• "The Sun at Evening," Reflect, Vol. 10, No. 1, Summer 1989.
• "Sunset," Midnight Express, No. 3, Oct. 1991.
• “The Swordswoman,” Moot Points, May 1992.
• "Telon's Harp," ABC/xyz, Vol. 20, Iss. 3, 1991; reprinted, Nod-y-Rit, Mar./Apr. 1993.
• "This Time, No Submission," Poetry Forum, Fall 1990.
• "Three for Sorrow," Miss Fit's Free Press, No. 7, Winter 1992.
• "Throat," Down in the Cellar, Iss. 6, Winter 2007-2008 (published Dec. 2007).
• "Through Fire," Herspectives, Vol. 3, Iss. 3, Oct. 1991.
• "Time's Magic Measured," Tales of the Talisman, Vol. 3, Iss. 1, June 2007.
• "Time Travel Navigated by Constant Stars," Sonnet Writers, Vol. 1, 2006, selected from the entrants to the 2006 contest and published October 2007. (Online version posted December 8, 2006.)
• "To Fly Above the Sea," Eldritch Science, Snowsprinkle (Dec.) 1989.
• "To Follow You," Currents, 1991-92.
• "Trees and Weeds," St. Joseph's Messenger and Advocate for the Blind, "Spirituality: A Reflection," Fall 2000.
• "La trobairitz a la dame de s'amie," Contemporary Rhyme, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter 2005.
• "The Turning," Omnific #6, Vol. 2, No. 2, July 1990.
• “View of an Evening Sun,” Hadrosaur Tales, Vol. 9, 2000.
• "Wake Her Not," Nod-y-Rit, April/May 1992.
• "A Warning," Omnific, Vol. 2, No. 3, Oct. 1990.
• "Wave Etchings on Human Bone: Gold Rush '88," Currents, 1988-89.
• "The Way Between," Doorways Magazine, Iss. 1, February 2007.
• "What to Look for in a Lord," Nod-y-Rit, Aug./Sept. 1992; Moot Points, July 1993.
• "When Voices," Silver Wings, Summer 1988.
• "While the Candles Burn," Currents, Spring 1993; reprinted, The Black Lily, Iss. 10, Spring 2002.
• "The Wind," St. Joseph's Messenger and Advocate of the Blind, "Spirituality: A Reflection," Fall 2000.
• "Windy Day," Reflect, Vol. 9, No. 4, Spring 1989.
• "The Wooden Flute," Reflect, Vol. 10, No. 1, Summer 1989.
• “Ys Awake,” Forms of Fancy, annual spinoff of Moot Points, Nov. 1992.

Nonfiction
(See also Editing.)

• All the Brothers Were Valiant by Ben Ames Williams, Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and Great Lakes, Ed. Jill B. Gidmark, 2000.
• "Joy Chant," Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, Ed. Robin Anne Reid (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009), 60.
• Magill's Choice: 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction, Ed. Fiona Kelleghan, 2001. Nine entries updated, including Leslie Charteris, Daphne du Maurier, Harry Kemelman, Margaret Millar, Elizabeth Peters, Georges Simenon, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, Julian Symons, and Phyllis A. Whitney.
• “The Vampire Chronicles” (updated), Magill’s Choice: Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, Ed. Fiona Kelleghan, 2002.

Interviews

• "History and the Work of Memory: An Interview with Luisa A. Igloria," Virginia Libraries, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Library Association, Vol. 52, No. 2, Apr./May/June 2006.
• "'How to Plot a Murder': An Interview with J. B. Stanley," Virginia Libraries, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Library Association, Vol. 54, No. 3-4, July/August/September-October/November/December 2008.
• "The Locus of the Imagination: An Interview with Michael Pearson," Virginia Libraries, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Library Association, Vol. 51, No. 2, Apr./May/June 2005.
• "Painting out of the Past: An Interview with Jay S. Paul," Virginia Libraries, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Library Association, Vol. 50, No. 3, July/Aug./Sept. 2004.

Reviews

• Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval Service by Robert Shenk, The Mariners’ Museum Journal, 1997.
• Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës by Diane Long Hoeveler, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 12, Iss. 3, 2001.
• Rewriting the Women of Camelot by Ann F. Howey, for Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 15, Iss. 1, Spring 2004.

• "'A Chantar,' a Song by the Comtessa (Beatriz) de Dia," Nod-y-Rit, Dec./Jan. 1994.
• "Finding Virginia Authors," Virginia Libraries, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Library Association, Vol. 54, No. 3-4, July/August/September-October/November/December 2008.
• "Internet Temptations," Writing on the Run Tip of the Week, Newsletter of Writing on the Run, March 3, 2007.
• "Life's a Beach: The History of the Bathing Suit," compiled, edited, and ghostwritten from text for the planned exhibit by Thomas Moore & Anne Marie Millar, Hampton Roads Monthly, June 2001.
• "Reading on the Run," Writing on the Run Tip of the Week, Newsletter of Writing on the Run, March 10, 2007.
• "Serving Your Filipino-American Community," Virginia Libraries, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Library Association, Vol. 52, No. 2, Apr./May/June 2006.
• "The Solitary Quest: The Hero's Search for Identity in Roger Zelazny's Amber," Strange Horizons, September 25, 2006.
• "Speculative Poetry: Form and Function," The Seventh Week (Clarion West Writers Workshop newsletter), Spring 2005.
• "Welcoming Our GLBT Patrons," Virginia Libraries, the quarterly journal of the Virginia Library Association, Vol. 52, No. 2, Apr./May/June 2006.

Exhibits

• Wrote label copy and collected artifacts for “Herman Melville: ‘The Man Who Lived among the Cannibals’” in the exhibition Skin Deep: The Art of the Tattoo, presented from October 24, 1998, to September 26, 1999, at The Mariners’ Museum.

Newsletters & Journals

Editorials for Virginia Libraries, quarterly journal of the Virginia Library Association

• "Openers: For the Love of Reading" by Lyn C. A. Gardner and Cy Dillon, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 54, No. 3-4, July/August/September-October/November/December, 2008.
• "Openers: Mistakes: Simple and Complex" by Cy Dillon and Lyn C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 54, No. 2, April/May/June 2008.
• "Openers: Literacy: The Long View" by Lyn C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 54, No. 1, January/February/March 2008.
• "Openers" by Cy Dillon and C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 53, No. 3, July/August/September 2007.
• "Openers" by C. A. Gardner and Cy Dillon, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 53, No. 2, April/May/June 2007.
• "Openers" by C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 52, No. 4, October/November/December 2006.
• "Openers" by Cy Dillon and Lyn Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 52, No. 3, July/August/September 2006.
• "Openers: Welcoming Everyone" by C. A. Gardner and Cy Dillon, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 52, No. 2, April/May/June 2006.
• "Openers: The Importance of Customer Service" by C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 51, No. 4, October/November/December 2005.
• "A Particular Perspective: Our Editors Speak" by Cy Dillon and C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 51, No. 3.
• "Openers: The Future of Books" by C. A. Gardner and Cy Dillon, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 51, No. 1, January/February/March 2005.
• "Openers: They Will Come" by Cy Dillon and C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 50, No. 4, October/November/December 2004.
• "Openers: Living with Art" by Cy Dillon and C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 50, No. 3, July/August/September 2004.
• "Openers: The Challenge of New Media" by C. A. Gardner and Cy Dillon, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 50, No. 2, April/May/June 2004.
• "Openers: A Community Effort" by Cy Dillon and C. A. Gardner, Virginia Libraries, Vol. 50, No. 1, January/February/March 2004.

Journalism for The Mariners' Museum

• Wrote much of ICMM News, the biannual newsletter of the International Congress of Maritime Museums, 1999-2001.
• Wrote Pipe, the quarterly newsletter of The Mariners’ Museum, from 1999-2001.

Books

An “Earthly Paradise”: William Morris’s Later Prose Romances, thesis for M.A. in English Literature, Old Dominion University, 1996. Archived at ODU's Perry Library.

Stories
Poems
Nonfiction
Films

Films

Performed in Drinks with the Spider King, a collection of plays written by Brian Aldiss based on his short stories, performed by participants at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, March 25, 2000. I played the part of David in "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" (later to be adapated as A.I.). A copy of the film is archived at the University of Miami Libraries.

Stories
Poems
Nonfiction
Books