Christian’s short story “Leave Me the Way I was Found” is briefly reviewed at Punk Talk!

The first review of Shock Totem #2 is out there!

In case you missed it, yesterday I popped into the official Cover Stories website and talked about my short piece “Leave Me the Way I was Found”, the story now available in the latest issue of Shock Totem.

Just when you think you’ve heard the last of my first book Empty Rooms Lonely Countries, two reviews of the short story collection appear!

Christian checks in with a brief update on his life and work.

In the off chance that you missed yesterday’s big announcement, you can read GalleyCat’s exclusive interview with me as they “unmask” Twitter’s Drunk Hulk.

When considering euphiction, it’s important to note that the stories themselves don’t have to be about music, nor do they have to work like a song. The emphasis here is that the song has inspired you to create a story, whether the song works as a kind of soundtrack or you’re playing off of the song’s theme. And while this kind of writing is hardly new, the term euphiction is. Stephen King has talked about how the Ramones influenced his writing (and vice-versa), and it can be argued that specific passages where …

Below is the definition of euphiction as currently used on Wikipedia:

Euphiction is a writing genre where writers do literary “cover versions” of specific songs, a marriage of musical inspiration with the written word, or a story that works like a three-minute single. The word combines euphonious and fiction.
To write a euphictional story, writers select a song and either use the song’s title or a lyric from the song as the title of the story, and then write a story that reflects the song itself. The goal of the piece is to …

Christian shares a little history about Cover Stories with enough coincidences to make you think he had a plan all along.

Because Wrocław has numerous universities (maintaining over 100,000 students) and a 94% Catholic population, on Easter weekend the city turns into something similar to Night of the Comet. So with most of the population having returned home for the weekend or locked away in a church somewhere, it’s certainly not the time of year one would expect – even mathematically speaking – to meet the woman you were going to marry.