Chris Decker and his wife Pat live in Roddickton and Little Bay Islands, NL.

Five of his previously published short stories are included on this site.

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Court In Roddickton The Bitch The Welfare Officer Will See You Now The Sixty Year Funeral Sport At The Movie Decker's novel, Gravel Pit Campers is available in bookstores. An autographed copy of the book may be purchased using the "Buy Now" button below. A synopsis of Gravel Pit Campers: Loot and Biddy Bridger live in Reefer's Harbour in Newfoundland and Labrador. Loot is a mechanic who has never met a mechanical problem that he couldn't fix. He converted a 72 pupil school bus into a camper and along with Biddy and their children, Donnie and Winn, headed out for some serious gravel pit camping. Along the way they meet up with Jock, a widower from the States, who is having mechanical problems with his old Winnebago. They get to know a University student from Ontario who is doing research in Newfoundland garbage dumps. And there is the mysterious Julienne who is on a mission to Newfoundland. And Aunt Edwina, Biddy's millionaire aunt, takes more than a platonic interest in Jock. And there's a brush with the RCMP! Gravel Pit Campers has it all: Humour that will make you laugh out loud; a story line that is real and true; and people whose lives you identify with so strongly that you can't help yourself from laughing and crying along with them. An original tale that holds the reader riveted. Decker's second novel Dissolution will be published in time for Christmas. A hint about Dissolution: Suppose Quebec really did separate from Canada! What would happen to the rest of the country? What would happen to Newfoundland and Labrador? Dissolution is fiction. Or is it? Decker is presently working on a third novel, Audacity.

Readers are encouraged to email their comments to chris@chrisdecker.ca