Chris S. Burns has been published in the following:
Being Psychic is Weirder than You'd Expect. 42 Stories Anthology, Paranormal Category. BAM. Publication in November 2024, under the name Alexi Karnikov. 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.
This Job is Part Time and has No Insurance. 42 Stories Anthology, Humor Category. BAM. Publication in November 2024.
The Doughnuts Were Good, but Not THAT Good! 42 Stories Anthology, Fight Category. BAM. Publication in November 2024.
FAME. Flash Fiction Podcast. Manawaker Studios. May 26, 2023. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
Old Milwaukee in a New World. Honorable Mention for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (Vol. 40, 1st Quarter), 2023.
Sandwich Shops Are Hell. Morning Moot. Non-Fiction. January 25, 2023.
I’ll Drink this Pumpkin Spice Latte Before Labor Day, but Only Because Demons are Making Me. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. August 30, 2022.
A Welcome Letter to the New Adjunct Faculty Members Who Will be Laid Off in December. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. August 11, 2022.
Birds of Prey. Honorable Mention for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (Vol. 37, 1st Quarter), 2021
Quotes from My Mother About 2020's Thanksgiving Dinner, Except Also from Albert Camus's The Plague. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. November 25, 2020.
Critical Theories of the Pumpkin Spice Latte. McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. September 22, 2020.
Midnight at Red’s. Another Chicago Magazine. Pushcart nominee. November 26, 2019.
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.
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.