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Once a Silicon Valley software engineer, Curtis C. Chen (陳致宇) now writes fiction and runs puzzle games near Portland, Oregon. His debut novel Waypoint Kangaroo (a 2017 Locus Awards Finalist and Endeavour Award Finalist) is the first in a series of funny science fiction spy thrillers. He has written for Ninth Step Station and Machina on Serial Box.
Curtis' short stories have appeared in Playboy Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, Oregon Reads Aloud, and elsewhere. His homebrew cat feeding robot was displayed in the "Worlds Beyond Here" exhibit at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle. He is a graduate of the Clarion West and Viable Paradise writers' workshops.
You can find Curtis at Puzzled Pint on the second Tuesday of most every month. And yes, there is a puzzle hidden in each of the KANGAROO book covers! Finding the rabbit holes is left as an exercise for the reader.
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Published Jan 15, 2021 · 322 words (2 minutes) · 2 likes · 29 views
Created during Shannon Fay's Clarion West online workshop "Keep It Short: Writing Microfiction" (January 2021)
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Published Nov 24, 2020 · 2,423 words (9 minutes) · 1 view
Fantasy Literary Fiction Science Fiction Historical protests empires progress
The condiment that brought down an empire?
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Fiction
Published Nov 6, 2020 · 7,636 words (28 minutes) · 1 like · 248 views
Fantasy Horror Mystery contemporary fantasy defund the police old world sorcery
CONTENT WARNING: police protagonist, violence involving children.
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Fiction
Published Oct 14, 2020 · 3,761 words (14 minutes) · 1 view
Fantasy Horror Mystery not grimm magic dogs police san francisco
A lightly edited excerpt from my NaNoWriMo 2010 project (CAVE CANEM), based on the unsold short story ("Working Graves") that got me accepted to Viable Paradise 2008. Inspired by real life locations in San Francisco, California.
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Fiction Series: Complete 2 Chapters
Updated Aug 28, 2020 · 6,661 words (25 minutes) · 1 like · 8 views
Science Fiction Romance space lesbians
https://twitter.com/GayOliveGarden/status/1287058098516119553
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Published Jun 30, 2020 · 3,718 words (14 minutes) · 13 views
Science Fiction disability avatars_inc sexbots
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Published May 31, 2020 · 1,073 words (4 minutes) · 261 views
Science Fiction Starships were meant to fly
Pioneers and plumbers
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Published Apr 29, 2020 · 4,349 words (16 minutes) · 1 like · 413 views
Science Fiction capitalism eat the rich fair is fair
Capitalism is dead, long live capitalism?
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Published Mar 31, 2020 · 4,182 words (16 minutes) · 423 views
Horror Science Fiction Romance get your ass to mars reverse war of the worlds did i just blow your mind
"The time has come," the astronaut said, "to talk of many things: of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of presidents and quarantines."