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I have 159 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 163473 times
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Christopher Caldwell
I grew up in England and have since made a home in France, on the banks of the Loire. My writing explores how family, place, and history leave their traces on us.
My stories
Froggy Came A-Courting (And So Did I)
There’s an old English folk song I half-remember from childhood — “A Froggy Went A-Courting.” It drifts in with its lilting tune and strange courtly...
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And Yet I Still Watch
I scroll through YouTube’s endless thumbnails and I am bored. Bored of the screaming, the sensationalism, the world set permanently to crisis pitch...
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The Flying Brick
I’d been scouring AutoTrader for weeks — every spare moment, even before I passed my full motorcycle test. What I really wanted was one of those...
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Jaws (1988)
I first saw Jaws when I was about eleven, maybe twelve. It was late, a school night, and I couldn’t sleep. I got out of bed, in the bedroom I shared...
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An Afternoon in Lausanne
It was death that gave me the courage. In the space of two years, I lost my uncle, my stepfather, an old friend I shared an office with in Barcelona...
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