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PROSE: Chasing Regrets

Posted on July 16, 2018February 6, 2019 by Sophie

  He rapped his knuckles against the side of his glass. His nerves were getting the better of him. Scraps of apologies flitted around in his head, but he couldn’t make anything coherent from them. Nothing that she would accept. … Continue reading »PROSE: Chasing Regrets

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PROSE: Recall

Posted on September 9, 2017February 6, 2019 by Sophie

The cigarette dangles from his hand, dropping ash on the scuffed surface of the table. He doesn’t notice. His eyes are focused on a spot on the dark wood, but his gaze is turned inward, sifting through the fog of … Continue reading »PROSE: Recall

Categories: Prose

PROSE: Time

Posted on February 21, 2017February 6, 2019 by Sophie

  March. A dissertation on Freedom. She browses through the library stacks for Freud’s “Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious.” Reading it at home that evening she finds a passage underlined that exemplifies what she seeks from the book: “Freedom … Continue reading »PROSE: Time

Categories: Prose

PROSE: One Evening

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Sophie

The wine’s been drunk. She’s lifted the bottle more than once to see if there’s another drop she can coax from its neck. Each time is as unsatisfying as the last. “We need some more wine,” she grumbles. “Yeah, well, … Continue reading »PROSE: One Evening

Categories: Prose

PROSE: Adagio

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Sophie

The Old Woman liked to dance. On Saturdays she would set up the gramophone, and sway to the music alone until someone came to dance with her. The Old Woman was white: white of skin, white of hair, clad in … Continue reading »PROSE: Adagio

Categories: Prose

PROSE POEM: Acid Notes

Posted on April 23, 2016April 23, 2016 by Sophie

He’s playing the piano in the corner with a clunk-clunk-clunk half out of tune his fingers coming down hard on the keys like they owe him for a childhood trauma beating them down in some disjointed rhythm   His face … Continue reading »PROSE POEM: Acid Notes

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PROSE: Sin Eater (the original short story)

Posted on February 26, 2016October 3, 2016 by Sophie

She lit the cigarette. Put it to her lips. Took a pull, long, savouring it. Pressed the glowing end against her freckled forearm and let it sear. “Hey.” She dropped her leg down from the wooden crate serving as her … Continue reading »PROSE: Sin Eater (the original short story)

Categories: Prose

New York Sour, Issue #4

Posted on January 26, 2016August 18, 2016 by Sophie

Issue #1 Issue #2 Issue #3   ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~   I love this bar. The man behind the counter is almost a friend. The type of friend who knows I wouldn’t harm someone … Continue reading »New York Sour, Issue #4

Categories: Episodic Fiction, New York Sour

PROSE: Resurrection Men

Posted on January 17, 2016November 23, 2016 by Sophie

The night was dark, the moon a sliver in the western sky. It hid behind a cloud, from time to time peeking out to cast its faint light down upon the world. In the cemetery, there was activity. Johnson put … Continue reading »PROSE: Resurrection Men

Categories: Prose

POEM: The Shore

Posted on August 27, 2015October 28, 2015 by Sophie

This is Border Country.   If you come here on a clear day, you can see into the future.   Just a few seconds – but sometimes, that’s enough.   It can be lonely. But it is peaceful in a … Continue reading »POEM: The Shore

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