Author: Christopher Wilson
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Taylor Dayne Told Me the Night Was Exploding
Unpublished short fiction ’80s pop star Taylor Dayne sings that she “feels the night explode when we’re together” but that’s not how I feel about my wife. When we’re together I feel like the night is heating up some leftover ravioli in the microwave but the microwave misses spots and some of the raviolis are…
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Sparkle Dog: Dog of the Stars
Unpublished short fiction Just after the middle of the 20th century, the exploration of outer space began moving from novels, stories, films, and comics—our collective human imagination—into real life. The USSR was the first to make big moves. In 1957 they successfully launched a small satellite called Sputnik 1 into orbit around Earth, and its…
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Someone Got Eaten
Unpublished short fiction Someone got eaten. It may have been Paulina, or it could have been Fitzjames, or perhaps it was Stanley. That rat bastard Stanley. It was probably him who got eaten. I can’t say for certain, but someone definitely got eaten here. Look at the bones. Look at the guts. I think that’s…
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I Want to Fuck the Moon
Unpublished short fiction My father died and I was surprised to learn he had been saving money all his life working construction and left the whole wad to me. All my life I thought we were poor but in reality he was just a very skillful cheapskate. It annoyed me to find out he was…
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Chow Down Saturdays at the Pig Slop
Unpublished short fiction It is Florida 1985 and no one will fuck me. And no one has fucked me in five years and first dates never return my calls. This weighs on me heavily, and I can’t find a solution that doesn’t involve flagrant self-improvement. I look about for alternatives to satisfy my lust and…
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Billy Beergut Drinks a Beer
Unpublished short fiction Billy Beergut threw another beer at the television. He drank some more beer, then threw that beer at the television, too. The cans bounced off and fell on the carpet. There were a lot of old cans on the carpet. The whole apartment smelled like beer. Billy Beergut had a beer gut and…
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The Stupid Invasion
Published in The Florida Review 46.2 — Winter 2022 Aliens invaded Earth, and they were so fucking rich. It wasn’t exactly an invasion, either. They just kind of showed up and started spending money. Their spaceships weren’t all that special. They actually seemed a lot like ours—they had rockets and thrusters and things. No one…
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The Broken Path
Forthcoming in subTerrain Grandpa died face-down in a pot of chili. It’s a family legend. They told that story every Thanksgiving and all the children loved it. I was four when Grandpa Jim passed away but what I remember from that day is seeing my own father sobbing into a couch cushion, not knowing why…
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How the Ocean Hated Tampa Tom
Everyone hated Tampa Tom. His friends hated him and his enemies hated him.