Christian P. Harrington

Christian Harrington is a writer and teacher in the Boston area. After a brief public relations career in Los Angeles, he returned to Boston just in time for the city's worst winter on record. He holds an MFA from Emerson College in Creative Writing.

Essays

• Under the Gum Tree: The Best Sport (Winter 2024)
• Bodega Magazine: Eat My Wheat (12/4/23)
• The Boston Globe Magazine: First-Class Canine (11/24/23)
• The Linden Review: The Dead Don't Sneeze (5/4/23)
• Hippocampus: Put Your Problems in a Box by Christian Harrington (3/9/22)
• Pangyrus: My Night of Fundraising (1/18/22)
• Lowestoft Chronicle: Runner's Low (3/7/21)
• Los Angeles Review: One-Time Bag Model (8/21/20)
• Entropy: The Bird Diversion (6/19/19)

Humor Shorts

2021

• Points in Case: Announcement: I Am Getting into Classical Music (12/30/21)

2020

• The Weekly Humorist: Six Landmark Agreements of the Miller Family (5/28/20)
• The Haven: Great Courses Purchased During Quarantine In Order Of My Likelihood To Start Them (5/28/20)
• The Haven: We Must Protect the Truth of Pitbull (5/22/20)
• The Haven: Unhelpful Amazon Product Reviews I Wrote After Carol Dumped Me (1/7/20)

2019

• Little Old Lady Comedy: If One Member Of A Famous Duo Were Treated Like The Bride In A Best Man Speech (11/12/19)
• The Haven: I Would Never Bring a Child into a World with So Few Self-Storage Facilities (11/12/19)
• Slackjaw: No Matter What Happens, I Won’t Break Eye Contact Until Your Story Ends (9/6/19)
• Points in Case: A Plea to Raise the Millennial Stay Ceiling (7/31/19)
• Little Old Lady Comedy: Everyone Hates Talking Politics—Unless It’s With Me (7/30/19)
• The Haven: It’s Me, Bun Bun, I’m your five-year-old daughter’s favorite stuffed animal and I’m getting tired of all the birthday parties (7/22/19)
• Slackjaw: One (7/21/19)
• The Haven: Quotes from Rosemary’s Baby or Things I’ve Said to the Wild Turkeys Who Keep Showing Up in My Driveway (7/12/19)
• Points in Case: Introducing The Apple Car (7/9/19)
• Points in Case: If Fighting Climate Change Means Slowing Down the Surging Wild Pig Population, Count Me Out (6/19/19)
• The Big Jewel: When Secretariat Met A War Elephant In Heaven (3/27/19)
• Points in Case: Points in Case (1/23/19)

2018

• Robot Butt: A Golden Retriever Stopped Playing With His Mallard Plush Toy for One Week. Here’s What He Learned (12/10/18)
• Points in Case: Apolitical Questions the Senate Judiciary Committee Members Wish They Could Ask Supreme Court Nominees (9/7/18)
• Points in Case: A Few Thoughts About That Video You Recorded After My Root Canal (8/11/18)
• Points in Case: Angry Tweets from a Passenger on the Oregon Trail (6/7/18)
• Robot Butt: Opening Lines of the Commercials Airing During Your 8 pm Cable News Program (6/2/18)
• Robot Butt: 8 Short-Lived Subscription Box Services (3/27/18)

Other

• Medium

Contact

• christianpharrington (at) gmail.com