Published Fiction
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“August Sun,” (trans. from the Italian of Davide Staffiero), Tales from the Moonlit Path, Feb. 2024
“Inside the House of Mirrors” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Other Stories, #92.3 (2024) (podcast narrated by Manny Realguy)
“The Theater of Infinite Delight,” Cosmic Horror Monthly #39, September 2023; also publ. in Italian as
“Il Teatro dell’Eterna Delizia” (trans. Nicola Lombardi) in Midnight, eds. L. Boccia & N. Lombardi (Weird Books, 2023)
“Step-by-Step,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Café Irreal, #88, Nov. 2023
“One Night on the Train,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), We’re Infested: Tales of Vermin,
Insects and Filth, ed. Alex Gonzalez (Raven Tale Publishing, 2023)
"The Blood-Witch,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Horror Collection: Sapphire Edition, ed. Kevin J. Kennedy (KJK Publishing, 2022)
“Desire & Sons” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Other Stories, #81.2 (podcast narrated by James Barnett)
"Roach," The Concrete Desert Review, #3, Summer. 2022
"The Queen of Quinniac Creek,” Cerasus Magazine, #4, 2022
“Three Seconds,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Horror Collection: Nightmare
Edition, ed. Brandy Yassa (KJK Publishing, 2022)
"Afloat," StarShipSofa #669 (podcast narrated by Anthony Babington; originally published in Altered States: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories about Change (Mint Hill Books, 2011)
The Gypsy Spiders and Other Tales of Italian Horror (Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2021); translated from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi,
"The Last Night of October” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Halloween Horror: Vol. 3, ed.
Zach Friday (DBND Publishing, 2021); reprinted in Issue #3 of Tales from the Moonlit Path here.
“Bedtime Tales” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Stories We Tell after Midnight: 2, ed.
Rachel A. Brune (Crone Girls Press, 2020)
"Midnight Run” Flying Fox Flash (Novel Noctule), May 14. 2021; reprinted in Descent into Madness, (M Presents Publishing, 2023)
"Plant Closure," Terror House Magazine, April 2, 2021
"The Colonizers," StarShipSofa #648 (podcast narrated by Brian Rollins; originally published in Chasm, Autumn, 1995; reprinted in Cosmic Convocation: A Space Opera Anthology, ed. Jason Russell (Starry-Eyed Press, 2022)
"Driving Mom and Dad Home from the Wedding," New World Writing (August 2020)
"The Rector Addresses His Expeditionary Teams on the Eve of Their Departure," Sangam, Fall 2020 (I, 1)
"Bedtime Tales” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Stories We Tell after Midnight: 2, ed. Rachel A. Brune (Crone Girls Press, 2020)
"Sunset," The Ocotillo Review, Summer 2020 (iv, 2); reprinted in It's All in My Mind: Short Psychological Thrillers, ed. Jay Chakravarti (CultureCult Press, 2023)
"Alina's Ring," (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), What Monsters Do for Love: I. ed. R,C. Bowman (Soteira Press, 2020)
"Christmas in Vegas," Chiron Review, Winter 2019 (#117)
“Walpurgis Night,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Coffin Bell, Vol. 2, no.3, 2019
"Elevator Down," Your Impossible Voice, Summer 2019 (#20)
"Ingratitude," The Dark City, Spring 2019
“The House of the Scolopendra,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Blood Tomes: Vol. II, Creatures Short Stories Edition, ed. Andrea Dawn (Tell-Tale Press, 2019); reprinted in Samovar, Jan. 22, 2024 issue.
"Striges,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Vol.IV, 2019, ed. Robert N. Stephenson (Altair Australia, 2019)
“It’s Dark Out There,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Econoclash Review, No.3, 2018
Ghosts,” Chaleur, Summer, 2018
“Dr. Grene Gives Advice,” Ascent, June 29, 2018
“Little Kastle,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Offing , Nov. 28, 2017
"Even the Stars Fall,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Beauty of Death: Vol. 2, Death by Water, ed. Alessandro Manzetti and Jodi Renée Lester (Independent Legions Publishing, 2017). Story chosen for "Editors' Choice Award." Anthology nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
The Pale Witches of Autumn,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Vol.II, 2017, ed. Robert N. Stephenson (Altair Australia, 2017)
“The Right Choice,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Allegory , Fall/Winter 2016
“The Boy in the Trunk,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Deadman’s Tome (Oct. 3, 2016) ; reprinted in Horror for the Throne: One Sitting Reading, eds. J.D. MacDonald, T. Easton. J.K. Dial (Fantastic Books, 2021)
"Professor Aligi's Puppets,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Beauty of Death ed. Alessandro Manzetti (Independent Legions Publ. 2016); video trailer. Anthology nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
"Migrations,” Front Range Review, Spring, 2016
"Sand Castles,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Play Things & Past Times, ed. Steve J. Shaw (KnightWatch
Press. 2015)
"Tests of Courage," (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Disturbed Digest (#10), September 2015
"Hungry Shadows,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Disturbed Digest (#9), June 2015;
reprinted in This Book Is Cursed, ed. Howard Rachen (Bac/Lac, 2018); produced as podcast by The Other Stories, #90.1, Sept. 2023
" Braverman and the Dancer from Soul City,” TV Issue (2015), Chicago Literati
"Sketches Preliminary to the Portrait of an Art Dealer,” Midwestern Gothic, vol. 14, Summer 2014 (A pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded here: Midwestern Gothic)
"Not Many Trees Out There on Peachtree Street," Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol 17, 2014
"The Bucik Brothers Build the Eighth Wonder of the World" bluestem, September 2013
"Everything Is a Miracle,” bluestem, Spring 2012; also publ. in Italian as “Tutto è un miracolo” (trans.
Nicola Lombardi) in Dark & Weird: Vol. 1, eds. L. Boccia & N. Lombardi (Weird Book Edizione 2017)
“The Year the Padres Won the Pennant” in Suicidally Beautiful: A Collection of Sports Stories (Mint Hill Books, 2012)); reprinted in No One Should Kiss a Frog: An Anthology of Love Gone Wrong (MacKenzie Publishing, 2023)
"The Responsibilities of the Shift Manager,” A Bird in the Hand: Risk and Flight (2011, Outrider Press)
“A Daughter of Colchis,” Midway Journal, vol. v, no. 4, Spring 2011
"The Couch Club," Cream City Review, Autumn 2010; reprinted in Cosmic Contact: First Contact
Stories, ed. Jay Chakravarti (CultureCult Press, 2023)
“Mr. Ledbetter Misses His Stop” Karamu, Spring 2009; reprinted in “Invisible People,” The Moon Magazine, July 2019 (http://moonmagazine.org/j-weintraub-mr-ledbetter-misses-stop-2019-06-29/) and CommuterLit, July 3, 2019
“Mr. Vesey Comes to Work,” Massachusetts Review, vol xlix, no. 3, Autumn 2008
“It’s Mom,” Oyez Review, vol. 35, Spring 2008
“A Visit to the Catacombs,” Karamu, vol. xx, no. 2, Spring 2007; reprinted in Hidden Realms: Short
Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2023); adapted as a podcast as “Pseudopod
#608” (August 17, 2018); adapted as a podcast for Unhinged Worlds (Scattered Sounds
Productions), Season 2, Episode 3, Jan. 2013 (no longer available)
“The Flight of the Golden Eagle” Oyez Review, vol. 34, Spring 2007
“Keepers of the Flame,” Saranac Review, Issue 2, 2006
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“Selling to the Goyim,” Bryant Literary Review, vol. 3, 2002; reprinted in After Dinner Conversation
Short Story Series (2020), available on Amazon, as Kindle edition, and on ADC website, and also in the anthology After Dinner Conversation: Series Two.
“Newton’s Laws of Motion, Applied,” Bellevue Literary Review, Fall, 2001
“Taking Aunt Celia to the Wedding,” Karamu, Spring 2001
“Interviews,” in The Part-time Post: An Ezine Dedicated to the Dignity and Equity of Academic Contingent Workers (2001)
"You," Onion River Review, Fall, 1996; also published in The Love Book (Collages & Bricolages, 2002)
"I Loved You, Jayne Mansfield," Chasm, Winter, 1997
"The Colonizers," Chasm, Autumn, 1995
"A Wedding Cake the Color of a Field of Wheat," Whetstone, Volume 11, 1994
(John P. McGrath Memorial Prize for Fiction, Barrington Arts Council)
"The Screenwriter" Movieworks: Stories and Poems about Movies (The Little Theatre Press, 1990;
Honorable Mention for the A.E. Coppard Prize for Fiction)
"The Archives," Magic Changes, Spring, 1986
"The Well of English Defiled" Ascent, Fall 1984 (Illinois Arts Council Fiction Award)
"Sam Gottlieb's Hot Car," Kansas Quarterly, Spring 1984; reprinted in Defuncted: A Collection of
Abandoned Things, March 25, 2023
"S.A.S.E.," Chouteau Review, Spring 1984
"As Cold as a Mother-in-Law's Kiss," Crosscurrents, Dec. 1983
"The Audit," Cream City Review, Fall 1982
"The Restaurant," Chicago Reader, Sept. 7, 1979
"The Malevolent Mechanic," Motor Sports Journal, Oct. 1975
"Diary of a Breakdown," Motor Sports Journal, July 1975
Insects and Filth, ed. Alex Gonzalez (Raven Tale Publishing, 2023)
"The Blood-Witch,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Horror Collection: Sapphire Edition, ed. Kevin J. Kennedy (KJK Publishing, 2022)
“Desire & Sons” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Other Stories, #81.2 (podcast narrated by James Barnett)
"Roach," The Concrete Desert Review, #3, Summer. 2022
"The Queen of Quinniac Creek,” Cerasus Magazine, #4, 2022
“Three Seconds,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Horror Collection: Nightmare
Edition, ed. Brandy Yassa (KJK Publishing, 2022)
"Afloat," StarShipSofa #669 (podcast narrated by Anthony Babington; originally published in Altered States: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Stories about Change (Mint Hill Books, 2011)
The Gypsy Spiders and Other Tales of Italian Horror (Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2021); translated from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi,
"The Last Night of October” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Halloween Horror: Vol. 3, ed.
Zach Friday (DBND Publishing, 2021); reprinted in Issue #3 of Tales from the Moonlit Path here.
“Bedtime Tales” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Stories We Tell after Midnight: 2, ed.
Rachel A. Brune (Crone Girls Press, 2020)
"Midnight Run” Flying Fox Flash (Novel Noctule), May 14. 2021; reprinted in Descent into Madness, (M Presents Publishing, 2023)
"Plant Closure," Terror House Magazine, April 2, 2021
"The Colonizers," StarShipSofa #648 (podcast narrated by Brian Rollins; originally published in Chasm, Autumn, 1995; reprinted in Cosmic Convocation: A Space Opera Anthology, ed. Jason Russell (Starry-Eyed Press, 2022)
"Driving Mom and Dad Home from the Wedding," New World Writing (August 2020)
"The Rector Addresses His Expeditionary Teams on the Eve of Their Departure," Sangam, Fall 2020 (I, 1)
"Bedtime Tales” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Stories We Tell after Midnight: 2, ed. Rachel A. Brune (Crone Girls Press, 2020)
"Sunset," The Ocotillo Review, Summer 2020 (iv, 2); reprinted in It's All in My Mind: Short Psychological Thrillers, ed. Jay Chakravarti (CultureCult Press, 2023)
"Alina's Ring," (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), What Monsters Do for Love: I. ed. R,C. Bowman (Soteira Press, 2020)
"Christmas in Vegas," Chiron Review, Winter 2019 (#117)
“Walpurgis Night,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Coffin Bell, Vol. 2, no.3, 2019
"Elevator Down," Your Impossible Voice, Summer 2019 (#20)
"Ingratitude," The Dark City, Spring 2019
“The House of the Scolopendra,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Blood Tomes: Vol. II, Creatures Short Stories Edition, ed. Andrea Dawn (Tell-Tale Press, 2019); reprinted in Samovar, Jan. 22, 2024 issue.
"Striges,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Vol.IV, 2019, ed. Robert N. Stephenson (Altair Australia, 2019)
“It’s Dark Out There,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Econoclash Review, No.3, 2018
Ghosts,” Chaleur, Summer, 2018
“Dr. Grene Gives Advice,” Ascent, June 29, 2018
“Little Kastle,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Offing , Nov. 28, 2017
"Even the Stars Fall,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Beauty of Death: Vol. 2, Death by Water, ed. Alessandro Manzetti and Jodi Renée Lester (Independent Legions Publishing, 2017). Story chosen for "Editors' Choice Award." Anthology nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
The Pale Witches of Autumn,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Vol.II, 2017, ed. Robert N. Stephenson (Altair Australia, 2017)
“The Right Choice,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Allegory , Fall/Winter 2016
“The Boy in the Trunk,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Deadman’s Tome (Oct. 3, 2016) ; reprinted in Horror for the Throne: One Sitting Reading, eds. J.D. MacDonald, T. Easton. J.K. Dial (Fantastic Books, 2021)
"Professor Aligi's Puppets,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), The Beauty of Death ed. Alessandro Manzetti (Independent Legions Publ. 2016); video trailer. Anthology nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.
"Migrations,” Front Range Review, Spring, 2016
"Sand Castles,” (trans.from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Play Things & Past Times, ed. Steve J. Shaw (KnightWatch
Press. 2015)
"Tests of Courage," (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Disturbed Digest (#10), September 2015
"Hungry Shadows,” (trans. from the Italian of Nicola Lombardi), Disturbed Digest (#9), June 2015;
reprinted in This Book Is Cursed, ed. Howard Rachen (Bac/Lac, 2018); produced as podcast by The Other Stories, #90.1, Sept. 2023
" Braverman and the Dancer from Soul City,” TV Issue (2015), Chicago Literati
"Sketches Preliminary to the Portrait of an Art Dealer,” Midwestern Gothic, vol. 14, Summer 2014 (A pdf of the entire issue can be downloaded here: Midwestern Gothic)
"Not Many Trees Out There on Peachtree Street," Chicago Quarterly Review, Vol 17, 2014
"The Bucik Brothers Build the Eighth Wonder of the World" bluestem, September 2013
"Everything Is a Miracle,” bluestem, Spring 2012; also publ. in Italian as “Tutto è un miracolo” (trans.
Nicola Lombardi) in Dark & Weird: Vol. 1, eds. L. Boccia & N. Lombardi (Weird Book Edizione 2017)
“The Year the Padres Won the Pennant” in Suicidally Beautiful: A Collection of Sports Stories (Mint Hill Books, 2012)); reprinted in No One Should Kiss a Frog: An Anthology of Love Gone Wrong (MacKenzie Publishing, 2023)
"The Responsibilities of the Shift Manager,” A Bird in the Hand: Risk and Flight (2011, Outrider Press)
“A Daughter of Colchis,” Midway Journal, vol. v, no. 4, Spring 2011
"The Couch Club," Cream City Review, Autumn 2010; reprinted in Cosmic Contact: First Contact
Stories, ed. Jay Chakravarti (CultureCult Press, 2023)
“Mr. Ledbetter Misses His Stop” Karamu, Spring 2009; reprinted in “Invisible People,” The Moon Magazine, July 2019 (http://moonmagazine.org/j-weintraub-mr-ledbetter-misses-stop-2019-06-29/) and CommuterLit, July 3, 2019
“Mr. Vesey Comes to Work,” Massachusetts Review, vol xlix, no. 3, Autumn 2008
“It’s Mom,” Oyez Review, vol. 35, Spring 2008
“A Visit to the Catacombs,” Karamu, vol. xx, no. 2, Spring 2007; reprinted in Hidden Realms: Short
Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2023); adapted as a podcast as “Pseudopod
#608” (August 17, 2018); adapted as a podcast for Unhinged Worlds (Scattered Sounds
Productions), Season 2, Episode 3, Jan. 2013 (no longer available)
“The Flight of the Golden Eagle” Oyez Review, vol. 34, Spring 2007
“Keepers of the Flame,” Saranac Review, Issue 2, 2006
,
“Selling to the Goyim,” Bryant Literary Review, vol. 3, 2002; reprinted in After Dinner Conversation
Short Story Series (2020), available on Amazon, as Kindle edition, and on ADC website, and also in the anthology After Dinner Conversation: Series Two.
“Newton’s Laws of Motion, Applied,” Bellevue Literary Review, Fall, 2001
“Taking Aunt Celia to the Wedding,” Karamu, Spring 2001
“Interviews,” in The Part-time Post: An Ezine Dedicated to the Dignity and Equity of Academic Contingent Workers (2001)
"You," Onion River Review, Fall, 1996; also published in The Love Book (Collages & Bricolages, 2002)
"I Loved You, Jayne Mansfield," Chasm, Winter, 1997
"The Colonizers," Chasm, Autumn, 1995
"A Wedding Cake the Color of a Field of Wheat," Whetstone, Volume 11, 1994
(John P. McGrath Memorial Prize for Fiction, Barrington Arts Council)
"The Screenwriter" Movieworks: Stories and Poems about Movies (The Little Theatre Press, 1990;
Honorable Mention for the A.E. Coppard Prize for Fiction)
"The Archives," Magic Changes, Spring, 1986
"The Well of English Defiled" Ascent, Fall 1984 (Illinois Arts Council Fiction Award)
"Sam Gottlieb's Hot Car," Kansas Quarterly, Spring 1984; reprinted in Defuncted: A Collection of
Abandoned Things, March 25, 2023
"S.A.S.E.," Chouteau Review, Spring 1984
"As Cold as a Mother-in-Law's Kiss," Crosscurrents, Dec. 1983
"The Audit," Cream City Review, Fall 1982
"The Restaurant," Chicago Reader, Sept. 7, 1979
"The Malevolent Mechanic," Motor Sports Journal, Oct. 1975
"Diary of a Breakdown," Motor Sports Journal, July 1975