Recent-ish goodlinesses
Black with Ash, Red with Grinding
Lodged in Molotov Cocktail’s Killer Flash 2024 mega-issue, this one’s about the dark stuff different groups of people do to the other. I was thinking about colonialism, oppression, evangelism, and appropriation, but the great thing about darkness is, that shit’s everywhere. You can’t cover it all in under a thousand words.
Omigaa
Included in Molotov Cocktail’s Killer Flash mega issue, this is a story about being different, figuring out who you are, and the pain we may inadvertently cause others in the process.
Stone-mothers
I guess this one’s about benign repression, or some similarly horrid garbage-sauce controlling business in that general halo. Basically, there’s this dragon who’s under human control for seriously historical reasons unrelated to her, and now certain humans decide they want to control her offspring. Mildly salient, though I wrote the first draft of this ten […]
Dark Morsels
Sample the tasty darkness. A collection of eleven tiny fictions, including two new flashes to deepen that hollow, hopeless feeling we all cherish. Published by Red Bird Chapbooks in July 2023. Contents: Beetle in Her Pocket Flip Side Waiting for the Trustafarian Migration Baksheesh* Alpaca Lips Sparkly Thing The Slow Rise of Foreign Bodies Meat […]
Separate Worlds
Check out PULP Literature Issue 41, Winter 2024, which includes “Separate Worlds”, my skippy fun flash about phones, tones, bones, and a little global meltdown. It’s just one possible answer to the age-old question for whom that bell tolls. I hope its truthy darkness resonates in you.
About Chip
Chip’s short fiction has appeared in PodCastle, Bourbon Penn, Daily Science Fiction, New Myths, PULP Literature, and lots of other markets. He’s published a fair amount of micro and flash fiction, including a collection of them called Dark Morsels with Red Bird Chapbooks.
