Christopher Williams

Fiction — often absurd, occasionally magical

Christopher Williams was pinched by a crab as a child while poking his finger under rocks on a beach. He yelled, flung the crab off, and still thinks about the noise the shell made as it hit the rocks — its body grinding and cracking. He went on to get an MFA from Columbia, have two children, and write stories in which people tend to come apart.

Poor crab.