Chris White — Author of Fiction

Antichrist Ascendant “Below him, men and women scurry like insects under overturned stones. Flames claw at stone arches, devouring marble, turning monuments of arrogance to dust. “

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The First Son “Never once was Jonah told to be careful.”

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Boys in the Bloodlight He had sons, all dead or gone to hell, and one boy they said was no boy at all but a wolf in trousers who gutted a man in Orchardville for smiling too long at his sister. “

A southern gothic flash fiction piece.

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The Pale Fires of El Llano Estacado They rode like wolves and struck like lightning and vanished like smoke. And the Apache, for all their teeth, were nothing but bitches beneath them.”

My latest gothic fiction piece. Hope you enjoy.

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The Womb and the Wall “The vial lay atop her dresser, open, half full still, the label worn by sweat but legible all the same: belladonna. I’d not seen it before. It had not been mine.”

My latest blog, a Southern Gothic flash fiction piece. Hope you haven’t just eaten.

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A Quiet in the Smoke He smelled wood and cordite and the last supper’s lard still caking the pan.

Latest gothic fiction piece. Check it out.

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The Southern Agrarian This clearly is a kind of faith, and a faith moreover that is here earnestly recommended by two scientists who are aggressively contemptuous of faith.

The Southern Agrarian
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The Stranger Appeared By morning, the stranger was gone. But a silence had settled over the town, an unease that slithered beneath the ordinary. Doors opened slower, conversations trailed off mid-sentence.

Noir Flash Fiction
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Just got these in today. More for the TBR stack.

Killer Idea! “Yes’em. We spent our whole lives calling it old wives’ talk. Said it weren’t real. Said no woman ever died from it, so why worry? But it is real. And they are dying.”

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Got these two beauties in the mail today. Off to the TBR pile for a bit, while I finish my current squeeze—Cemetery Road by Greg Iles.

I started querying last weekend. I plan to try for 3 months to get some feedback, pro or con. My book is being copy edited at the moment, won’t be complete until 3rd wk of July. My team is preparing the final steps of my web site and completing a marketing analysis. Just selected my book cover.

Sure; that would be awesome. Thanks Gary. I was just now checking out your account to see what genre you’re writing. I’m a writer myself, thus far unpublished, ‘bout two months from ripping the band aid off it and letting it air out. Mine is a southern fiction, a coming of age gothic.

What’s the name? I’d love to go to that school myself.

Congrats Helen.

Time for some gritty Barry Hannah. My TBR list is dwindling down to about 25, but I love me some Barry Hannah.

Always the Artist, Never the Art Writing is exile. Painting is penance. Music is the weeping of a soul that cannot be held. The artist lives in a room with no windows, praying, always praying, for someone to knock on the other sid…

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Always the Artist, Never the Art Writing is exile. Painting is penance. Music is the weeping of a soul that cannot be held. The artist lives in a room with no windows, praying, always praying, for someone to knock on the other sid…

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Living Outside Boxes “Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” Creativity comes from peeling away the things which quintessentially make us adults, and ins…

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Living Outside Boxes “Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” Creativity comes from peeling away the things which quintessentially make us adults, and ins…

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Preparing for debut book launch late summer.

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I’ve really come to love Larry Brown as a novelist. Born and died in Oxford, Miss., he really embraced the authors before him in that same haunting southern gothic genre I love so much. Just got this in the mail this morning, can’t wait to put a few miles on it.

Please excuse my lack of editing sir. Ranting isn’t a profession for me, it’s just a thing I rarely do on my iPhone. I actually don’t disagree with everything you write, but I totally disagree with your dismissive attitude—exactly why Drump was elected. Tell Chat GPT thanks for the kind edit.

Good sources of news are the ones we agree with. I think we must dissagree on who lacks media literacy. Everyone lies my friend. Whether it’s for a good cause or a bad one; they all lie. As they say, “statistics don’t lie; statisticians do.” It’s nuance sir.

The problem with news, you can’t trust any of it anymore. The gov’t lies; the media lies.

It didn’t help Biden.

Muslims aren’t known as protectors of women’s rights. Will the new candidate pledge support for the rights of women? In ways that makes female voters completely comfortable? Cuomo is a known quantity when it comes to relationships certainly, but he’s not shown us an anti-female rights ideology—yet.

Tennessee’s Bigfoot, Thomas Sharp Spencer, Man or Myth or Both byChrisWhite (2025) They called him Big Foot. Not because he smelled of pine needles and wet dog or made a mess of chicken coops, but because he left prints the size of two dinner plates and walked…

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Tennessee’s Bigfoot, Thomas Sharp Spencer, Man or Myth or Both byChrisWhite (2025) They called him Big Foot. Not because he smelled of pine needles and wet dog or made a mess of chicken coops, but because he left prints the size of two dinner plates and walked…

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Just delivered; looks like I’ll be reading another William Gay novel this weekend. Can’t say enough great things about this author.