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Three Months of Free Fiction!

Curtis Chen
April 30, 2020
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Okay, don’t get too excited: I’m only posting one thing every month, so it’s just three short stories. But they are all new, original works, and explicitly in conversation with the current state of the world… February: “Cats Don’t Care…

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Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Curtis Chen
November 29, 2016
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my post-election ennui. Now I’m doing something about it. Today is #GivingTuesday, and regardless of how you feel about the proliferation of Thanksgiving holiday adjuncts (Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday,…

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We Can Be Heroes

Curtis Chen
November 15, 2016
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Hello. This is my post-terrible-election blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine. I’ve had a lot of thoughts and feelings over the past week. I haven’t been very productive, writing-wise. But here, I think, is some…

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Friday Flash Fiction: “Now and Later”

Curtis Chen
December 28, 2012
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For the record: Guns don’t murder people. Fucked-up assholes murder people, and they don’t need guns to do it. But firearms do carry a lot of psychic freight. Read “Now and Later” at 512 Words or Fewer

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Friday Flash Fiction: “Back to School”

Curtis Chen
July 20, 2012
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Hey, anybody remember that “Jack & Bobby” show from a few years back? Yeah, neither do I. Read “Back to School” at 512 Words or Fewer

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Friday Flash Fiction: “Unanswered Questions”

Curtis Chen
October 28, 2011
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This week’s story was inspired in part by Breakin’ It Down with Catherine Reitman and the Occupy Oakland clusterfuck. You might not think those two things go together, but they are both Halloween-thematic: Ms. Reitman is the daughter of the…

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Why Everyone Should “Write The Other”

Curtis Chen
July 18, 2010
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I’ve been downloading TED talks in iTunes, since they make for good, quick, off-line viewing, and are generally entertaining and/or educational. We watched this one over breakfast today: Being a minority writer myself, I feel some of the same pain…

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Friday Flash Fiction: “I Disagree”

Curtis Chen
May 14, 2010
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Why, yes, I do watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Thanks for asking! Read “I Disagree” at 512 Words or Fewer

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Do You Know What Yesterday Was?

Curtis Chen
May 1, 2010
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Really, now. Did you think I’d forgotten? It was also this year’s Free Comic Book Day–more on that later–and, apparently, a good day for political protests in Portland. Not that there’s any connection between those two, but as long as…

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It Makes a Fellow Proud to Live in Portland

Curtis Chen
April 30, 2010
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D and I read about this guy in our local newspaper a few weeks ago, and now the story’s gone national: Yup. Welcome to PDX. The title of this post is, of course, sarcastic. Allow me to educate those of…

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