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Chris Opyr is a neurodivergent writer of horror and science-fiction and is the author of the Wishing Shelf award-winning, psychological horror novella, Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh. Through their fiction, Chris explores issues of otherness, anxieties, and neurodivergence. After a brief career in television story-producing, they repented and returned to writing prose fiction.

Currently, Chris lives in North Carolina with their wife, child, and a menagerie of obstinate animals, including their two cats, John and Margaret.

In addition to Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh, Chris's work can be found in the recent anthology Black Cat Tales featuring their most recent short story, Ill Luck. ...more

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… and the website finally works? Okay, so, it has been a little over six months since I published Calling Mr. Nelson Pugh. In that time, I’ve managed to get some reviews (which have happily been overwhelmingly positive), but I have not had a properly functioning site. Well, now that that is hopefully resolved. I […]

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“All these bad experiences that we go through, they don't just disappear. We carry them our whole life trying to forget, escaping in habits, addictions, hate, toxic relationships. But what we don't know is that by doing so we let them stay alive. We water them like withered flowers and we hang onto them to justify our mistakes and failures.”
― Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon

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Another and then the other one made me
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The last fall will break me
But I will survive”
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