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Christopher J. Stockwell

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Born
in Seattle, The United States
December 11, 1975

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"Why do you write?" She asked me.

"Why do you fuckin' care," is what my bestie Jack would say. He's always inside me trying to push his way out. When people take a tone, or give me orders, Jack bristles. Chris has a wife, kids, and a mortgage, so most of the time, Chris is charged with keeping Jack in check. Jack is why I write. The world moved on without Jack. His music scene is nothing but burnt ash from the campfire the night before. Jack's city doesn't exist anymore. It might as well be called Seattle 2.0.


I'm a lawyer, a former prosecutor. When I put on a suit, you can't see me, or should I say you see my mask. Who am I? I'm the counterculture hiding in plain sight. Punk rock gave me a worldview, and I bring that worldview into society e
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"This book was actually gifted to me by a friend who knows I have a soft spot for raw, gritty writing, and wow, it hit hard in the best way. I wasn’t sure what I was getting into at first, but once I started reading, I couldn’t look away. The story ha" Read more of this review »
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"It's a hard story about a hard-luck guy. The first page effectively tells you how the story will end for Jack, and then the next three-hundred pages tells you how. Even so, somewhere along the way, you forget that Jack is doomed and start rooting for" Read more of this review »
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“I'm pretty sure planet Earth is just a huge open-air prison, and we're all stuck here because we did something terrible in a prior existence.

I mean, if you were on the outside looking in at this floating muddy ball, what would you think! Personally, I"m lookin' forward to my sentence being over.”
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“It's fortunate I have such a huge chip on my shoulder. I'm pretty sure it's the only thing keeping my feet on the ground.”
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“It's fortunate I have such a huge chip on my shoulder. I'm pretty sure it's the only thing keeping my feet on the ground.”
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“I'm pretty sure planet Earth is just a huge open-air prison, and we're all stuck here because we did something terrible in a prior existence.

I mean, if you were on the outside looking in at this floating muddy ball, what would you think! Personally, I"m lookin' forward to my sentence being over.”
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