2024 has been a good year for my short stories. My flash story “Herbert” was published in February by Pulse Publishing in the 99 Fleeting
Author: Christian Bieck
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Wow, it’s been more than half a year since I last updated the site here. So much for my promise from December. And I still
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Almost every authors/writer site talks about holiday gifts right now, so I hop on the bandwagon and plug: 99 Tiny Terrors! As the title hints,
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It might be confirmation bias, but it feels like quite a few of the people who follow me or like my stuff on social media
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I am generally somebody who likes to try out pretty much every social media platform at least once. I’ve been on Twitter since 2009, was
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[Note June 20 2024: I just noticed that the image links are broken; will need to recreate the charts, and that might take a bit.
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I just uploaded another fantasy story, about 1000 words flash fiction. Enjoy! Also, I decided to reduce the update frequency for now. Since most readers
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I know commenting on yesterday’s death of Queen Elizabeth II is redundant, but like many other people in the Blogosphere and the Twitterverse, I’ll do
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Yesterday when I woke up, I had the most beautiful email in my inbox: one of my short story submissions has been accepted to be
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Real left brain post today. I first published this post (in a slightly different version) about a year back on the risklantern.com blog. As the