Stories By Curtis C. Chen

512 Words or Fewer

Weekly flash fiction from yours truly.  Subscribe in a reader

FREEFALL

An outer-space military cyberpunk espionage alternate-history romance mystery serial set in the mid-twenty-first century Solar System.

CKL's HotSheet

What Non-Aardvarks are Pondering.  Subscribe in a reader

Travels With Our Cats

Summer, 2008: CKL+D drive across the USA with Jasper and Bayla.

et cetera

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EndGame

Solving the murder was just the beginning... (NaNoWriMo 2008)

Spaceship Castle

Any sufficiently costumed science fiction is indistinguishable from fantasy. (NaNoWriMo 2007)

Waypoint Kangaroo

Murder and mayhem aboard an interplanetary cruise ship. (NaNoWriMo 2006)

By the Light of the Moon

An alternate history: Apollo 8, with atypical werewolves. (NaNoWriMo 2005)

Sweet Valley Heist (feature)

Step One: Get hired. Step Two: Get sick and tired. Step Three: Plan to steal the company's $10 million in holiday bonus cash. Step Four: PROFIT??? (Script Frenzy 2009)

Apartment of Champions (pilot)

In a city full of super-heroes, six young people with not-so-great powers do their best to avoid great responsibility. (FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest 2008)

The Gauntlet (feature)

The NSA has a time machine. But they are afraid to use it. (Script Frenzy 2007)

We are a race of storytellers.

We can't help it. Everyone writes bad poetry in high school. But after that, you either get better, or you stop.

I like to think I've gotten better...