Gods on the Lam

Wayne, a former forest service fire-fighter, wakes up on the highway-side unsure of where he was going or who he is. It’s the 1980s, and a rash of disappearances haunt his small Northern Arizona mountain town called Show Low. The disappearances are being called abductions. Meanwhile, reformed alcoholic and dedicated mother, Ruby, has been hunting her missing son for years and believes he did not simply run away. Her search leads her to Show low. In the forest, loggers have transformed into zombie-like creatures fighting over the last of a vial of blue liquid. In Wayne’s investigations alongside Ruby, they learn one very important thing about Wayne’s past, and that vial. It’s linked to Ruby’s missing son in a way that might drive her to kill for vengeance.

Word Is Bone

1999. Ex-con June returns to Los Angeles to bury his father, and in the process brings violence and mayhem to everyone he encounters. Low-rent gangsters fight dogs and pistols shoot quiet through potato silencers, and at the center of this sweltering California Gothic and its surreal and colorful cast of characters is the love story of Kiddy and June, two wild young people separated by circumstance and time, trying not to love each other against their better instincts.

A selection Christopher David Rosales’ short stories, personal and craft essays have appeared, been anthologized, or are forthcoming in the following journals and magazines, among others.

Shotgun Honey, online crime fiction magazine and press

The Volta: Evening Will Come, an online multimedia site of poetry, prose, criticism, poetics, video, conversation (audio), and interview (text).

Chiron Review, a print journal of contemporary writing, interviews and artwork

Palimpsest, a semi-annual print publication based at Yale

Versal, an international small press of writing and art

Acentos Review, a quarterly literary and arts journal that promotes and publishes LatinX work

BULL, a print and online journal dedicated to examining the evolution of modern masculinity

Cleaver Magazine, an international literary magazine highlighting underrepresented writers and artists

34th Parallel, an multimedia creative arts publication

Danse Macabre, a digital journal anthologizer of speculative verse & prosey

Morganblatter Anthology (Hammer & Anvil Books)

RIPRAP, a literary journal that highlights new and emerging writers from across the country as well as enlightening interviews of award winning, published writers

Gutfish Radio Audio Project

LitReactor, an interactive online community featuring news and columns about writing craft, the publishing industry, books, and other literature-related items.

Pioneertown, online literary journal publishing both traditional and genre-bending work

Center for the American West, a publisher, research and educational center dedicated to probing notions of the American West

A Selection of Essays

Examinations 1.12 | Examinations 2.4

Dramatic Situation vs. Dramatic Scene | The Dramatic Method | Three Ways Michael Chabon Uses Suspense in Literary Fiction | Action & Suspense in Literary Fiction | Detective as Author: Postmodern Techniques in Modern Detective Fiction

Figurative Language…and Stuff Like That | Crafting the Transition | Bringing the Lie to Life: What Your First Two Pages Can Tell You

Magical Reality & Its Double: Real Magic | Politics in Fiction