What magic drifts in the background of our everyday?

The play of darkness and light on the surface of our thoughts and on our lives, unseen forces guiding our paths. Take a journey with A Bucket Full of Moonlight and open your vision to the possibilities of what if…

Includes the stories

I’ve Seen Empires Fall

Fallen Angels

The Passing of the Stake

These Loops Were Made for Playing

Calling the Future

Existential Pudding Crisis

The Fertile Valley Scrolls

That Time Everything Went Haywire

Taking the World by Storm!

Hero Crush

The Myth of a Planet Called Earth

Chester’s Home for Like-Minded Souls

Don’t Drink and Divine

Maryglen and Her Fairy “Momsters”

And Many More!

Christopher J. Burke is a writer, high school math teacher, and webcomic creator. He’s also a gamer and fan of science fiction who has been telling stories since he was little. This combination ultimately led to his first professional sale, “Don’t Kill the Messenger,” in Autoduel Quarterly in 1988. This was followed by the creation of a fiction fanzine, Driving Tigers Magazine, with stories set in the Car Wars universe of Steve Jackson Games, which had a five-issue run. Thanks to his knowledge and love of that game, he was asked to co-author GURPS Autoduel, 2nd edition for Steve Jackson Games.
He took time off from writing when he switched careers and went back to school to become a teacher. But not before he completed a goal of having a humor piece published in MAD Magazine. In 2007, he started the math-based webcomic (x, why?), filled with the kind of geeky humor that makes his students groan when he includes them in the daily lesson. Christopher still updates the comic with new strips every week on his blog. http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com.
After a chance meeting at a launch party in 2014, Christopher was once again bitten by the writing bug and started producing flash fiction. He won several monthly flash fiction contests on the eSpec Books blog, which then published a collection of his short fiction, In A Flash 2020.
His most recent stories, “Portrait of a Lady Vampire” and “Bringer of Doom”, appeared in Daily Science Fiction and in the anthology Devilish & Divine, from eSpec Books. His work has appeared in online magazines such as MetaStellar, Free Flash Fiction and Short Beasts. In 2023, he launched the first in a series of mini-books with the title Burke’s Lore Briefs.
Christopher lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Antoinette.