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Chris S. Burns has been published in the following:

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Being Psychic is Weirder than You'd Expect. 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42², Paranormal Category. BAM. Under the name Alexi Karnikov. October 29, 2024. This story received an Honorable Mention Award for Excellence within it's category; see my interviews with the publisher, here for the email interview and here for the video interview.

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This Job is Part Time and has No Insurance42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42², Humor Category. BAM. Under the pen name William Karmikal. October 29, 2024.

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The Doughnuts Were Good, but Not THAT Good! 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42², Fight Category. BAM. Publication in October 29, 2024. 

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It's Always Sunny in the Space Needle. Solarpunk Magazine. Published on their Patreon on September 26, 2024. Will be released as part of an anthology in late 2024. 

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FAME. Flash Fiction Podcast. Manawaker Studios. May 26, 2023. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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Old Milwaukee in a New World. Honorable Mention for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (Vol. 40, 1st Quarter), 2023. 

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Sandwich Shops Are Hell. Morning Moot. Non-Fiction. January 25, 2023.

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I’ll Drink this Pumpkin Spice Latte Before Labor Day, but Only Because Demons are Making Me. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. August 30, 2022. 

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A Welcome Letter to the New Adjunct Faculty Members Who Will be Laid Off in December. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. August 11, 2022.

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Birds of Prey. Honorable Mention for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (Vol. 37, 1st Quarter), 2021 

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Quotes from My Mother About 2020's Thanksgiving Dinner, Except Also from Albert Camus's The Plague. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. November 25, 2020. 

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Critical Theories of the Pumpkin Spice Latte. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. September 22, 2020.

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Midnight at Red’s. Another Chicago Magazine. Pushcart nominee. November 26, 2019.

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Principessa di Fiamme, Princess of Flames. Finalist for 48th New Millennium Award for Fiction. New Millennium Writings. November 11, 2019.


Principessa di Fiamme, Princess of Flames. Eclectica Magazine. July/August 2018. 

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The Psychic and the Foodie: A Love Story. 2nd Place in the 2018 Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story Award, judged by Kimberly Brower of Brower Literary & Management, Inc. Issue 54, Fall 2018.

Contra Mundi. The Laurel Review, 51.1. Fall 2018.


The Atomic Gravitational Theory. Transfer Magazine


A Studio Dream. Lady in the Lake.

A Few Small Pieces. Lady in the Lake.

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Chris S. Burns

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