Christopher Michael

Joined August 2022

27 stories

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High school chemistry teacher with a passion for science and the outdoors. Living in Utah I'm raising a family while climbing and creating.

My stories range from thoughtful poems to speculative fiction, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller/horror.

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Climbing Gym Woes
Mountains glazed with snow. Climb pink plastic holds inside amidst crowds, noise, sweat. In Japanese: yama ni yuki. jimu no naka shika
By Christopher Michael3 years ago in Poets
Climbing Fear
The rocky grit bites my hand, I cup my hand in a sandstone crack and it’s wedged. Expensive metal hangs from between my teeth
By Christopher Michael3 years ago in Poets
Rifts of Unithar
Sometimes Mother didn’t want to wake-up. She’d lay catatonic for days atop mounds of heat-twisted, marbleized gold, silver, and gems. An ancient chamber of melted treasures befitting the last dragon of Unithar. Caelyn knew it wasn’t because of him, but it was hard not to feel so. She mourned her youngling whom his species had killed centuries ago, and he was a disappointing replacement. Many times she assured him of no comparison, but on days like these he wondered.
By Christopher Michael3 years ago in Fiction