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Excerpt
The dining room is in shambles. Chunks of plaster cover everything. The curves of the mahogany parquet have been made meaningless by a random dusting of ivory powder. Blackened hunks of wood lie uselessly among shards of Lalique champagne flutes. The Chippendale table is pitted and scarred from their passage.
My mother sits calmly at the table, unmindful of the rubble, nibbling on a croissant and sipping café con leche out of a hopelessly chipped Limoges demi-tasse. "Good morning, querido," she says without looking up.
"Mother--"
"You know, Julian mijo, if you wanted a skylight," she glances up at the sky that peeks through the jagged hole in the roof, "there are probably easier ways of re-decorating than making your boyfriend angry.
-from "All Things Truly Wicked," my week five Clarion West story
Bio
Christopher Caldwell is a 2007 graduate of Clarion West. He works as an administrator in a residential treatment center for at-risk youth, and desperately wishes that his social life were as uncomplicated as his fiction. He is currently at work on a novel featuring a gay teenage supervillain as its protagonist.
Writing Description
I'm interested in character foremost. Where the character goes and what he sees, and how he reacts to that drives all of my writing. That sometimes takes me to some pretty strange places that can be labeled as urban fantasy, magical realism, slipstream, or sometimes flat out sword and sorcery.
Goals
I plan to write 1,000 words a week in my stalled for entirely too long novel.
I plan to beg, cajole and wheedle all of my friends until they break down and sponsor me.
