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Christopher Owen

Christopher Owen lives in Colorado with his wife and two cats. His work has appeared at Daily Science Fiction, Mirror Dance, Eleven Eleven Literary Journal, New Myths and other places. He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers’ Conference.

THE DROPLIFTER • by Christopher Owen

September 29, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Rose was a droplifter. I must admit until I met her, I’d never heard the term. She introduced me to it when we were on our first date at Starbucks. We’d met on a dating site, and after we’d had… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Christopher Owen, dating, first date, one-night stands

PETTISHA AND THE CAT MAN OF PARIS • by Christopher Owen

September 15, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Paris is a city of many things — lights, sounds, whispers… and cats. Cats haunt modern Paris like fur-clad ghosts — whiskered faces through window panes, gray mousers plying their trade in alleyways, rooftop cats and cats who sleep and… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories buskers, cats, Christopher Owen, Paris, writers

LOVE AND THE ART OF TELEGRAPHY • by Christopher Owen

April 19, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I just turned fifty: the same age as my estranged father when he died. Such a thing gets a man to pondering the details of his life. Such thoughts made me get busy, first by cleaning up my dingy old… Continue Reading →

Literary, Romance, Stories aging, Christopher Owen, flirting, neighbours

IT’S ONLY RAIN • by Christopher Owen

February 15, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“What’s that sound?” asks my wife, Kadie.  She and I lie in the loft of the barn, the wan light of a cloudy dusk making the world a shadow play through the unshuttered hay door on the west side of… Continue Reading →

Literary, Romance, Stories Christopher Owen, marriage, musicians

CAT IN THE SNOW • by Christopher Owen

May 10, 2017Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

Jenny saw the cat on a March afternoon that was blustering full-on with a rare Texas snowstorm. She had been staring out into the blue-white dissonance beyond her apartment window, lulled by the gentle drift of the flakes. Snow came… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories breaking up, cats, Christopher Owen, snow, Texas

A PATCH OF BLUE SKY IN MY DREAMS • by Christopher Owen

April 12, 2016Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

Lotta rain since Shanna left—weeks and weeks of it. It seems forever since I’ve seen a blue patch of sky. Drops of rain pelt the tall windows of the old Manhattan loft I call home, the occasional clap of thunder… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories bars, Christopher Owen, musicians, rock bands

CHARMING THE PERCH • by Christopher Owen

July 31, 2015Every Day Fiction 9 Comments

Late on certain afternoons I often liked to climb into my small boat and row out into the pond near my cabin.  Sometimes I played a flute I had carved from a hickory branch and watched the perch dart about… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Christopher Owen

A CIGARETTE FOR LESTER • by Christopher Owen

June 21, 2015Every Day Fiction 30 Comments

An old man named Lester lived at the same nursing home as my grandfather back in the late 1970s.  I still cringe when I think of that place.  The smell of stale urine dominated the bleak institution like a horrid,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Christopher Owen, cigarettes, elder care

A DRINKING TALE • by Christopher Owen

November 19, 2014Every Day Fiction 108 Comments

Marci and I run through the streets of Montmartre, drunk. Rain falls, turning the streetlights of Paris blurry against the dusk-time sky. Marci is barefoot, shoes in her hands, the streets too slick for high heels. She seems particularly exuberant,… Continue Reading →

Stories Christopher Owen, Paris, plagiarism, writers

THE NESTING HABITS OF WRENS • by Christopher Owen

July 15, 2014Every Day Fiction 54 Comments

The wrens came in early March, building a nest of twigs within the ivy that grew in a twisted cascade from the old butter churn planter in Barbara’s sunroom. The old woman took to watching them, her face hovering scant… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories birds, Christopher Owen, marriage, terminal illness

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