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.
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.
Christopher’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.
Christopher’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.
This story originally appeared in Poydras Review Issue 1, released Spring 2012. Read it here…
Christopher’s story “In Very Little Time On The Nile” appears in Cleaver Magazine Issue #2, June 2013.
Christopher’s story “An Arabian Ornament” appears in Poydras Review Issue 1, released Spring 2012. It is available online at “Story: An Arabian Ornament”.
Christopher’s story “Cedar Hill” appears in Arcadia Magazine Issue 4 released May 1, 2012. It is not available online at this time.
Christopher’s experimental-form nonfiction story “Weather Permitting” in PressBoardPress. The story is in a diagrammatic form that follows the Fibonnaci series of numbers: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, etc., where each number is the sum of the previous two. The form of this story applies the Fibonnaci series to the paragraphs: each paragraph is numbered, and each paragraph’s number is its word count.
Earlier stories by Christopher X. Shade:
12th Street Journal, 2008: “The Finch”;
12th Street Journal, 2008: “The Choir Girl”;
SoMa Literary Review, 2005: “The Four Seasons of San Francisco”;
Riverwalk Journal, 2005: “The Accident”;
The Square Table Journal, 2005: “The Hat Cleaner”;
and other stories in small press publications.
Christopher X. Shade