Christopher Bowen's Blog
August 4, 2024
2 Drafts
Time Machine He leaned in, blue curtains drawn around them like big sky, he reached her. The bed bent upright and crooked; machines beeped. She wrapped her fist around the blanket and clenched it atop…
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November 4, 2021
Iceland Retreat 2021 & Some New Work
Condolences To Those Who Have Unfortunately Heard Prematurely of My Untimely Death Chuck, too, was honest this way. I could trust him with my life. And so, when the bear came into camp that evening atop the ridgeline and peak to take us, it was Chuck who confronted the animal like St. Peter at the...
The post Iceland Retreat 2021 & Some New Work first appeared on Burning River.September 24, 2021
Audio Projects
I’ve been working on a project, creating an audiobook of my novella and some other work using the shareware Audacity. I’m hoping to have the audiobook formalized and available through Amazon by next year. This is a painstaking process. Even with instructions, it’s really difficult to normalize or equalize the sound. I attached a couple...
The post Audio Projects first appeared on Burning River.July 29, 2021
The Nightly News
I want to write a children’s story like Shel Silverstein. It’s going to be about a little boy, about playgrounds and kickball, old cartoons centered around too much violence. Like Acme anvils and seeing stars. There’s a biography I read when I was a kid about a man who died violently by his own hands....
The post The Nightly News first appeared on Burning River.July 12, 2021
Place the band-aid on the heart so it can grow again
Trace from the back of the ear to the corner of the mouth across with the forefinger to another’s face. Trace the line in a circle backwards to capture the construct. Pull an unseen quarter from behind the ear of a child. Go back the way you came following the footprints you left there. Butterfly...
The post Place the band-aid on the heart so it can grow again first appeared on Burning River.February 25, 2021
The Orchid & the House
Being with her, the nights the two of you danced on the back patio, the accidental knocking over of the potted orchid plant laying in a cracked jar at your feet. All because of the red wine. How both of you laughed and ignored the whole thing in the carelessness of the moment, flaws at...
The post The Orchid & the House first appeared on Burning River.The Orchid
Being with her, the nights the two of you danced on the back patio, the accidental knocking over of the potted orchid plant that lay in a cracked jar at your feet because of the red wine. How both of you laughed and ignored the whole thing in the carelessness of the moment, flaws at...
The post The Orchid first appeared on Burning River.October 10, 2020
To Whom It May Concern
To Whom It May Concern, The study of death psychology was first introduced in October 1921 in volume thirty-two, issue four of The American Journal of Psychology. In an article by anthropologist Arthur MacDonald, the five page study “Death-Psychology of Historical Person-Ages” is a summary of the last words of dying people and their meaning....
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