Stories By Curtis C. Chen

512 Words or Fewer

Weekly flash fiction from yours truly. Read a new story every Friday!  Subscribe in a reader
Recommended:

"Question of the Day" (12 Aug 2011)
"Godwin's Law" (04 Mar 2011)
"In the Navy" (11 Jan 2011)
"Working Graves: Habeas Corpus" (17 Sep 2010)
"Life Goes On" (25 Jun 2010)
"Universal Language" (17 Jul 2009)
"Kangaroo's First Day with the Eye" (19 Jun 2009)
"Prisoner" (21 Nov 2008)
The Fearless Five series (13 May 2011 - 03 Jun 2011)
The Jake & Andy mysteries (irregular/ongoing)

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)

FREEFALL

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

On ProgrammableWeb

Google Safe Browsing Alerts: No to Phishing, Yes to XML (22 Oct 2010)
Campaign Finance API, Version 3: This Time It's Congressional (18 Oct 2010)
Zappos Developer Portal Puts Spotlight on its API (11 Oct 2010)
Manage Your Domains via API with DNSimple (04 Oct 2010)
Dive into the YouTube Time Machine (29 Sep 2010)
Watch Out for StealthModeWatch (20 Sep 2010)
Twitter API Calls Doubled Since April: Now Serving 70,000 Every Second (16 Sep 2010)
Blekko Wants You to "Slash the Web" (15 Sep 2010)
Twitter API Adds Retweet Count and More (31 Aug 2010)
Google Now Charging $5 to List Chrome Extensions (25 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. Now with weekly audio podcast!  Subscribe in a reader

Travels With Our Cats

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

Unpublished

Kangaroo Too

What happens when you find out you're not the only spy on the planet who has a superpower? (NaNoWriMo 2011)

Working Graves: CAVE CANEM

Dogs. Police. Magic. (NaNoWriMo 2010; excerpted in "Gone But Not Forgotten" on 512 Words or Fewer)

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; excerpted in "Kangaroo Fails" from 512 Words or Fewer)

By the Light of the Moon

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

APARTMENT OF CHAMPIONS (30-minute comedy pilot)

In a city full of super-heroes, six young people with not-so-great powers do their best to avoid any responsibility. (Winner, SIE Script Competition 2011)

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)

THE GAUNTLET (feature)

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