Stories By Curtis C. Chen

In Print

"At Long Last Love" (From the Porch Swing, 2010)

"The Stories We Tell Ourselves" (100 Stories for Haiti, 2010)

On the Web

"Restart" (Strangetastic, 2009)
"Love Lucy" (365 Tomorrows, 2007)
"Ghosts of Earth" (365 Tomorrows, 2006)
"Birthdays" (365 Tomorrows, 2006)
"Antique" (365 Tomorrows, 2006)

512 Words or Fewer

Weekly flash fiction from yours truly. A new story and illustration every Friday.  Subscribe in a reader
Recommended:

"Ghost Patrol" (26 Feb 2010)
"Don't Fence Me In" (14 Aug 2009)
"Universal Language" (17 Jul 2009)
"Kangaroo's First Day with the Eye" (19 Jun 2009)
"Sam Spayed" (17 Apr 2009)
"Better" (06 Feb 2009)
"The Forty" (26 Dec 2008)
"Prisoner" (21 Nov 2008)

FREEFALL

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

On ProgrammableWeb

"Google Now Charging $5 to List Chrome Extensions" (24 Aug 2010)

On Wired How-To Wiki (Fall 2009)

Bake a Potato Without an Oven
Get Rid of Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications
Get Your PC Wires Under Control
Make an Independent Movie on the Cheap
Make a Podcast
Open Docx Files
Read a Barcode
Set Up a Firewall
Skip Commercials on Your DVR
Transfer VHS Tapes to DVD

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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Unpublished

Better

Konri Linbitter followed all the rules until the day her brother committed suicide. Then she began questioning everything about her world. (NaNoWriMo 2009; based on "Better" from 512 Words or Fewer)

EndGame

A puzzle hunt thriller. 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; same world as "Kangaroo's First Day with the Eye" from 512 Words or Fewer)

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)