Audio Versions of Chris's Fiction

(Published, Sept 2005 issue of The Harrow) If you can see into the future, gods will take notice of you. Aldred's brother is killed unjustly and Aldred's forbidden to bury or honor him. He defies the decree, and makes a pact with strangers, an old man who won't show his face and a giant who requires a final battle before he lights the pyre for his brother. Aldred returns to face his doom and discovers that an agreement he has made in life pursues him after death.

(Published, January 2006 issue of The Harrow) Growth, as a state, is superior to completeness, live for the journey, not its end. Making way for the next witch isn't always easy, but it's part of the job. You have to balance the gardening, baking and midwifery with curses, sin and things that come back from death, the tedious and difficult with the engaging.

(Published, March 2006 issue of Ultraverse) Seriously wounded on a far away planet, Lieutenant Boort plans his escape from behind enemy lines, enlisting the aid of the indigenous fauna and quoting Aristotle when he's in the mood.

(LykeionBooks.com) KASSANDRA COMES FROM THE SEA but she spends most of her life far from it, an exile sent inland to grow up, betrayed by her own family and fated for slavery. She's caught between a murdering king, a governess who's been trying to kill her since she was four, and river witches who spy on her through the plumbing. She's managed to stay alive so far, but on her thirteenth birthday, Kassandra's world tumbles into the abyss. She cries for the first time in her life, and not just a tear. She discovers that her parents didn't abandon her, and there's more to her governess than the tyrannical facade.

(LykeionBooks.com) Kassandra's earliest memory was of an angry blond-haired woman forcing her head under the bathwater, shoving it against the bottom of the tub, and yelling, "If you ever again stuff vegetables in your napkin and lie about eating them..."

(LykeionBooks.com) Kassandra stared unblinking at the world around her. The silent gloomy water seemed peaceful. Her dreams of drowning were always frightening, full of struggling and screaming, and some awful force having control over her...