About Chris

Chris Carrel writes speculative fiction and other odd things from somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. He has been published at Literally Stories, JAKE, Dark Winter Lit and others, has work forthcoming at Does It Have Pockets? and Skeleton Flowers, and posts occasionally at ccarrel.bsky.social.

A few personal facts about Chris.

He supports Large Corporate University and cheers for their sports team the Fighting Mercenaries

Historically speaking, Chris has been quite successful in maintaining a low-entropy distribution over his internal states despite living in changing and uncertain circumstances. This gets harder every year. 

Circler Rash and Criers Larch are decent anagrams for Chris Carrel.

He is familiar with the Dunning-Kruger Effect but is confident he is better than that.

Chris is generally a friend of all creatures great and small that are not actively trying to eat him.

He has perfected the skill of live catching flies to remove them from the house, but would totally fork a bear in the eye if it were trying to do him in.

His favorite animals are dogs and he works with two chihuahua mix dogs, Trudy and Murphy, who monitor him to ensure that he does not get too productive.