Here you will find a semi-complete list of short stories by Megan Lindholm. This list is semi-complete because, frankly, I didn't keep great records in the early years of my writing. Almost everything of significance to me is listed here. This listing is not exactly chronological either, as stories written one year were sometimes published in a different year.
This short story about a family poaching a moose in Alaska won an Alaska State Council for the Arts grant in 1979. It was published in the anthology Finding Our Boundaries.
This was the first time that Ki and Vandien made it into print. This story was published in the anthology AMAZONS! edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and published by Daw. The Anthology was the winner of the 1979 World Fantasy Award.
This was another Ki and Vandien story, published in Fantastic Stories in 1980, Vol.27, #11.
I'm still very fond of the idea of this story, that is, a woman haunted by a childhood friend. This germ of an idea took a very different direction in the novel Cloven Hooves. This was published in Space and Time Magazine, a fanzine edited by Gordon Linzner. I feel a strong debt of gratitude to Gordon for his editorial insights into my early efforts and for his encouragement.
My first venture into near future Science Fiction. Published in Space and Time, #65, edited by Gordon Linzner.
A strange little story. Published in Space and Time, edited by Gordon Linzer. 1979, I think.
Yet another satyr tale. I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. Published in Space and Time, edited by Gordon Linzner, also in 1979. Maybe.
Written for my husband, on the occasion of his 40th birthday or thereabouts. A tale of contemporary magic, with a bit of Boeing and Sears, Roebuck stirred in. It was published in Asimov's Magazine in January 1989. It was a Nebula finalist that year, and won a Asimov's Readers Award. It was later anthologized in Asimov's Camelot anthology in 1998.
This is SF, and a story that I'm still very proud of. It was published in Asimov's Magazine, in November, 1989. It was a finalist for both the Nebula and Hugo awards, and a winner of an Asimov's Readers Award. It was anthologized in Asimov's Mother's Day anthology in 2000.
A dark little contemporary fantasy that appeared in Warrior Princesses, an anthology edited by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough in 1998 and published by Daw.
A bit of roadside fantasy, set in modern day. It appeared in the anthology Xanadu II edited by Jane Yolen and published by Daw in 1997
Liavek was a shared world created by Emma Bull and Will Shetterley. I was very happy to be invited to come in and play. In these stories, I first ventured into idea sharing and then outright collaboration with Steven Brust. The ultimate result of that was our novel The Gypsy published by Tor. Liavek was a wondrous city, with a system of magic based on the luck one might harness if one knew the exact moment of one's birth.