CHRIS VANJONACK
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World of Khaki

The Khaki Butthole is warm, and alive, and full of movement.

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Forthcoming in Diagram, 2022.

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A Survey of the Landscape

"You're a cold motherfucker, Eustice," Mayor Marlin says to the tree commissioner. "And you're overruled." 

Featured in Ninth Letter, June 2021.

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You Will Understand After Entering

"We tear enough shit down in Denver to put up crappy luxury apartments and storage garages...Casa Bonita is a piece of history."

Featured in The Potomac Review​, January 2022.

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Search Party  ​Dared Me To Imagine Myself at the End of the World

Search Party asks us to project forward to imagine ourselves as incurably and insufferably ourselves in the face of unimaginable existential threats and total annihilation. Which is to say: it forces us to see who were are, right now.

Featured in Electric Literature, March 2022.

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Return to Bird Island

The sign said, LAKE USE FOR HOA MEMBERS ONLY, and NO SWIMMING AFTER DUSK, and ISLAND ACCESS PROHIBITED, but we stripped and swam the fifty or so yards out, anyway. 

Forthcoming in Hobart After Dark, ​2022.

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Non-Violent Reporting in a Year of Uprisings & Upheaval

This destruction is senseless, these broadcasters seem to tell us, and the words come out soft, soothing, the voice of your grandmother or your favorite teacher or your very first lover. ​It has nothing to do with hunger.

Featured in Denver Westword, September 2020. 

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You Cut Out For a Second

We are creative and funny and interesting, but there is an undeniable sense that in 90 minutes, we have already exhausted the limitations of this form. 
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Featured in Stain'd Magazine, ​2021.

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  • About
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Realistic Fiction
  • Non-Fiction
  • Recommended Reading