Cecelia Chapman investigates the human hunger for adventure, mystery, and illusion using video, still image, and short and graphic fiction in works that examine the way we think and live.

Her work has appeared in Wheelhouse Magazine & Press, Recycled Karma Press, ClockwiseCat, Avance Publishing, Houston Literary Review, Axis Gallery, Wild Violet, Rural Messenger Press, Jackmagazine, MaryJournal, Enfuego magazine, Unlikelystories, Otoliths, Literary Chaos, Membradisjecta, and Qaartsiluni.

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Virus by Paul Von Hippel
The mansion across the street had stood empty since
the All-Star break, and now it was nearly time for the
World Series. So we were relieved when a moving truck
finally pulled into our dead-end street, a mile north of
downtown Columbus, Ohio. Our dog, Pudge, noticed it
first—not the truck, but the dog sitting erect and regal
between the two dark men in the front seat. Broad-
shouldered and shaggy as a wolf, the dog was taller
when seated than the passenger on his right, and just
a little shorter than the driver, who was so lanky that
he had to duck his head to peer under the sun flap.
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She'll Be Right by Steff Green
Darryl knew something was wrong when the lorry
didn’t show.

Matt Reade never missed a delivery, not even the day
his wife dropped the sprog. He loved the beach run;
it was the highlight of Darryl’s week, too. Betty used
to knock up a batch of pikelets and they’d retire to the
patio, shaking the sand from the plastic picnic chairs
and lighting the citronella candles to keep the mozzies
away. They sat for a few hours most weeks, fingers
intertwined, while Matt, who loved a good chinwag,
clasped his hands to his chest, his bottom lip quivering
in excitement as he described the picket line the townsfolk
set up when the council decided to sell the sections
below the ranges to the army.
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Few Surprises In Hit Man Draft by Roland Goity
The city’s leading organized-crime figures gathered
yesterday in the penthouse suite of the downtown
Hilton to select the hit men they hope will someday
elevate themselves to legendary, John Gotti-like status.
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