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Essays & Criticism

Book Review: Amy Dupcak’s DUST

51n-kphn0dlChristopher’s book review of DUST, a debut collection of short stories from author Amy Dupcak, appears in Issue Eighty-Eight (December 2016) of The Collagist.

The opening of this review of Amy Dupcak’s DUST:

James Hurst’s 1960 short story, “The Scarlet Ibis,” is commonly required reading for high school kids (and was adapted into an opera last year in New York City). It’s a remarkable story that opens with a garden…

From Lucid River Press: “A daring debut collection, Dust dives headfirst into the complicated waters of youth. Exploring themes of alienation, longing, self-destruction and ultimately self-awareness, the characters in Dust attempt to find meaning and form connections via sex, art, drugs, apple seeds, a cardboard dreamachine, and an aloe vera plant.”

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“Messages from a Storm” in Quarterly West

Christopher’s story “Messages from a Storm” appears in Quarterly West, as part of winning the 2016 Writers @ Work Fellowship Competition. Quarterly West again has its archives available online after a website transition; this story is available to read online in Issue 88.

Quarterly West is the online literary journal run and staffed by PhD creative writing  students at the University of Utah.

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Fiction News & Appearances

Recently, three finalist stories

GlimmerTrainThe story “Postcard” was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s 2015 Very Short Fiction Award.

The story “Messages From a Storm” was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s 2015 Short Story Award for New Writers.

The story “Suicide Doors” was a finalist in Bayou Magazine’s 2015 Knudsen Fiction Contest.

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Essays & Criticism

Book Review: EVERYWHERE STORIES anthology of international fiction

Everywhere StoriesChristopher’s book review of Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, an anthology edited by Clifford Garstang, appears in The Collagist.

Here is the opening of the review:

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Fiction

“Astronauts” in Steel Toe Review

Christopher’s story “Astronauts” appears in Steel Toe Review’s Issue #19 released May 14, 2014. The story is available to read online in full.

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Fiction

“Richard’s Lincoln” in Word Riot

CXShade-Profile-dots-150x150Christopher’s story “Richard’s Lincoln” appears in Word Riot’s January 2014 issue.

The story was available to read online in full, but as of February 2018, it seems that Word Riot’s website is down.

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Fiction

“The Interview” in Revolution House Magazine

375651_503137713046379_291553337_aChristopher’s story “The Interview” appears in Revolution House Magazine, the December 2013 issue, volume 3.2. The magazine issue is available to read online in full.

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Review of short story in Cleaver Magazine

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Some kind words about Christopher’s short story from a reviewer of Cleaver Magazine’s latest issue: “The issue’s best short stories come from Kat Carlson and Christopher X. Shade and fit squarely into literary fiction rubric… Shade’s “In Very Little Time on the Nile” is a lyrical meditation on storytelling and people watching as Howard, a man on a tourist cruise to Aswan, imagines the life an attractive fellow passenger has been leading alongside his over the course of their intersecting vacations. Shade cleverly uses the woman’s scarf as a trigger for Howard’s fantasies, and it becomes a recurring detail, a thread that tightens the story’s scope.”

Christopher’s story “In Very Little Time On The Nile” appeared in Cleaver Magazine Issue #2, June 2013.

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Fiction

“In Very Little Time On The Nile” in Cleaver Magazine

Cleaver Mag Issue 2Christopher’s story “In Very Little Time On The Nile” appears in Cleaver Magazine Issue #2, June 2013.

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Book Review: Louise Aronson’s A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS

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Christopher’s book review appears in Saint Ann’s Review of A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT ILLNESS, from author Louise Aronson. An anticipated new literary voice from Bloomsbury USA, with an MFA in fiction and an MD from Harvard, this is Aronson’s debut, drawing from her experiences of becoming and being a doctor.