Christian Harrington

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

email: christianpharrington@gmail.com

cv: here

Essays

• 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

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