Christian Larsen

Christian grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked as a high school English teacher, a radio personality, a newspaper reporter, and a printer’s devil. His influences include J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen King, and Ray Bradbury. His short story “Bast” appears alongside the work of Graham Masterton, Ramsey Campell, and Joe R. Lansdale in the anthology What Fears Become: An Anthology from The Horror Zine (Imajin Books). He lives with his wife and two sons in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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• Letting Go on Sep. 17, 2011
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  Rachelle Williams has a nice beginning to a longer work in "Letting Go". It could stand some polishing, though. For a narrative so short, it's way too non-linear: there are scene-breaks literally nearly every paragraph or so. In addition, the narrator explains, rather than shows, what is or was happening. Lastly, the use of present tense is pretty jarring. It would read better past tense. But a good story IS brewing here--it's just not done yet.