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Sous Sous

Sous Sous has won two gold National Magazine Awards.
Illustration by Selena Wong
Memoir

Still Life

August 16, 2016November 22, 2022 - by Sous Sous

Our son was born with dark, wet hair and a button nose. His eyes were closed, but the death certificate later said they were brown

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Illustration by Sous Sous
Fiction / September 2015

The Last Cut

August 26, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Sous Sous

Winter sunlight streamed in through the plate-glass windows at the front of the salon; it was early still, and Eric’s new client Cara—naturally chestnut, ivory skin—sat swathed in a black …

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Investigation tape that reads "Do not cross" is tangled up in a ball
July/August 2014 / Poetry

Watching the Cop Show in Bed

July 23, 2014November 22, 2022 - by Sous Sous

Apparently, it’s very, very bad to let a well-dressed man into your home. An Oxbridge accent, coupled with the claim your husband’s hurt, and he’s from Scotland Yard: disaster! When …

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An ultrasound
Fiction / July/August 2014

Ultrasound

July 21, 2014November 22, 2022 - by Sous Sous

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 representing “of no interest to me” and 10 representing “of maximum interest to me,” the rapes in my neighbourhood rated a …

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A dog with its eyes crossed out on top of a larger creature's tongue
Fiction / July/August 2014

Brute

July 15, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Sous Sous

One exercise I do is, I look out the window at the pigeons in the wishbone trees, and I imagine not eating them. Imagine one fell out of a tree …

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Dog hiding in a desk, with yellow stuff on his mouth
Fiction / July/August 2014

Care and Feeding of the Amish

July 8, 2014April 14, 2020 - by Sous Sous

It took the class some doing to ambush, tackle, and finally capture the boy. They hid themselves on a stretch of the 62 just north of Ivanhoe and waited, giggling …

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Investigation tape that reads "Do not cross" is tangled up in a ball
July/August 2014 / Poetry

Part of the Main

July 3, 2014November 22, 2022 - by Sous Sous

You might say that a clod washed away diminishes the whole, the contours of the land effaced by saintly patience of the tide, which knows that in time its tiny …

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Illustration by Selena Wong
Fiction / January/February 2013

Seal

December 31, 2012November 22, 2022 - by Sous Sous

An endless sea, the horizon exquisite, with a particular blue-yellow light glancing off it

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Fiction / January/February 2011

Meet You at the Door

January 12, 2011April 14, 2020 - by Sous Sous

I had been typing since I was thirteen. On my mother’s L.C. Smith, my friend Howie and I made up our own Typing Olympics

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Fiction / July/August 2009

The True Sorrows of Calamity Jane

July 12, 2009November 22, 2022 - by Sous Sous

The night Bill Hickok was shot in the back of the head at a Black Hills poker table by the coward Jack McCall, my mother indeed grabbed a meat cleaver …

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