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Chris’s collected works are a kind of patchwork quilt, stitched together from the fabric of his opinions, be they political or practical, his historical ponderings, personal anecdotes, genealogical forays, and vivid travelogues.

Each piece, no matter how small or seemingly incidental, contributes to the broader narrative of a man who has roamed far and wide, both across the world and the uncharted terrain of his own restless mind. Together, they form a portrait of a life spent in pursuit, of understanding, of connection, and, perhaps most of all, of a good story well told.

  • The Womb and the Wall

    “The vial lay atop her dresser, open, half full still, the label worn by sweat but legible all the same: belladonna. I’d not seen it before. It had not been mine.”

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  • A Quiet in the Smoke

    A Quiet in the Smoke

    He smelled wood and cordite and the last supper’s lard still caking the pan.

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  • The Southern Agrarian

    The Southern Agrarian

    This clearly is a kind of faith, and a faith moreover that is here earnestly recommended by two scientists who are aggressively contemptuous of faith. 

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  • The Stranger Appeared

    The Stranger Appeared

    By morning, the stranger was gone. But a silence had settled over the town, an unease that slithered beneath the ordinary. Doors opened slower, conversations trailed off mid-sentence.

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  • Killer Idea!

    Killer Idea!

    “Yes’em. We spent our whole lives calling it old wives’ talk. Said it weren’t real. Said no woman ever died from it, so why worry? But it is real. And they are dying.”

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  • Always the Artist, Never the Art

    Writing is exile. Painting is penance. Music is the weeping of a soul that cannot be held. The artist lives in a room with no windows, praying, always praying, for someone to knock on the other side of the wall.

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  • Tennessee’s Bigfoot, Thomas Sharp Spencer, Man or Myth or Both

    byChrisWhite (2025) They called him Big Foot. Not because he smelled of pine needles and wet dog or made a mess of chicken coops, but because he left prints the size of two dinner plates and walked with his chin high and shoulders back, like God bequeathed him dominion over grave and gravity. Bigfoot wasn’t…

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  • On Tenterhooks

    On Tenterhooks

    He exhaled once. A crow somewhere flapped, then stopped. It’s wings drooping like sickness.

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  • Vengeance Among the Dead – A Lullaby for the Murdered

    Here, the dead would not be disturbed. Here, no shovel or knife would defile their rest for the sake of medical anatomy or curiosity. Their peace would be absolute.

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  • Prescription Nation: Cured to Death by Commercials

    These ads paint sickness in high definition, then frame the cure in airbrushed smiles and sunset-lit bike rides. A mild skin irritation becomes a “serious dermatological burden.” A bad mood? Clinical depression. Tired at work? Narcolepsy. There’s always a name, always a pill, and always a co-pay just around the corner.

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  • The Virtue of Justice – The Long Road to Right

    “Justice, you are no storm god, no angel of vengeance— but the still pivot upon which history turns…” — Chris White

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  • The Virtue of Patience

    “Sugar, some things take longer to bloom. You don’t pull on a green tomato. You wait. You tend. You hush to listen.”

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