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My grandfather waits
By Christopher Wink | Mar 18, 2008 My grandmother died on the Monday before Thanksgiving, November 2006, two months beyond my father’s parents celebrated 54 years marriage.The thought of the weight of...
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My grandfather waits: excerpt
My grandmother died on the Monday before Thanksgiving, November 2006, two months beyond my father’s parents celebrated 54 years marriage. The thought of the weight of loneliness, left after a half...
View ArticleTony Lain is dead
By Christopher Wink | May 06, 2008 There is a suddenness to life in this city. Surely it is exaggerated in the minds of those who live mostly in fears of their own creation. Four hundred dead of 1.5...
View ArticleSix days from now
By Christopher Wink | May 08, 2008 One week from yesterday three strangers riding beside me on the 3 bus will be dead. But I can’t know it. It hasn’t happened, and I’ve never spoken to them before and...
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Bill’s Graduation Lessons (Newsweek submission: 6/9/08)
By Christopher Wink | June 9, 2008 | Newsweek submission Bill Cosby told me I shouldn’t worry. No one was going to remember anything I said anyway. In May, I graduated from Temple University in...
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I am the future of journalism (Publish2: 12/30/08)
By Christopher Wink | Dec. 30, 2008 | Publish2 It is 11:55 p.m. on Dec. 30, 2008: minutes before deadline. Perfect. I am very young and very green. Sometimes I spend entire hours thinking about...
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Weed and prostitutes: a conversation in Amsterdam
By Christopher Wink | Oct 9, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com We meet Sander and Neek at the outskirts of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Sean, his brother Brian, and I are on a bridge demarcating...
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Welcomed by the children
By Christopher Wink | Oct 26, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com He liked the movement of the mouse cursor on my computer screen. So I pried his hands from the keys and opened up Microsoft Paint. With...
View ArticleThe boy in the train station coffee shop
By Christopher Wink | Oct. 8, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com Worlds – yes, disparate worlds – come to some form of a cross-section in red-eyed, late nights in train stations. Early Tuesday morning,...
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Notes on seeing Europe from a train
On the train destined for Stockholm, Sweden on Nov. 1, 2008. By Christopher Wink | Oct 23, 2008 | WeDontSpeaktheLanguage.com You take trains from big cities to other big cities. Lands, untold by tour...
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Radiator Heat: my ‘Rust Belt Rising Almanac’ flash fiction from Head and the...
The Rust Belt Rising Almanac is a beautiful anthology of narratives from what is new and inspiring in post-industrial American cities from the Head and the Hand Press, a small, craft publisher startup...
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What the social impact of technology should be: my essay in the ‘Asteroid...
An essay called ‘Share Something Greater’ I wrote on the social impact possibilities of consumer technology was published in the Asteroid Belt Almanac, an anthology from the Head and the Hand Press, a...
View Article‘What if Northeast Philadelphia seceded from the city?:’ Philos Adelphos...
A submission I made to a book anthology out of the noted Kelly Writers House has been accepted. The collection, called Philos Adelphos Irrealis, was meant to portray various states of Philadelphia that...
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