Cookie SheetBy Deborah Holt WilliamsGlenwood Springs The day was cold, I thought I’d bake. Not a pie, not a cake, just a little something sweet. Cookies! I pulled out the sheet. The oven was warm, the dough was cold. I realized my sheet’s more than fifty years old! A wedding gift, back in ‘73. Well […]
Fiction
Work in Progress is The Sopris Sun’s platform to highlight the local community’s creativity. Fictional short stories, poems and illustrations can be submitted to fiction@soprissun.com to be published.
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Works in Progress – Jan. 22, 2026
All Lives Living By Jessica Amber Barnum & Tanner Jones Noticing is inspiring.Perhaps it’s only inspiringwhen you’re really noticingall lives living. Noticing the homeless man who soundly sitson his makeshift chair,hood on his lowered head,hands in his tattered pockets,eyes peeking in intervalsinspired by … I’m not sure.And, I look around to noticewhat he might […]
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A ski bum’s lament By Russ CriswellCarbondale A warm wind is blowing Too many nights, too many sightsFrom too many bar stoolsNovember and no snowNovember and nowhere to go Too many burgers, too many friesToo much smoke in my eyesDecember and no snowDecember and nowhere to go Too many starry nightsToo many sunny daysJanuary and no […]
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Drawn together
The Roaring Fork Drawing Club once again filled out Botany Houseplant Shop in Carbondale, drawing inspiration from the many happy, healthy plants and a warm, social atmosphere. Stay abreast of the club’s weekly meetings throughout the Valley by following @rfdrawingclub on Instagram or requesting to join the email list, rfdrawingclub@gmail.com
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Works in Progress, New Year’s wrap
The Works in Progress page has become so popular, it wasn’t possible to print every submission in 2025. These are but a few of the poems received which haven’t, until now, met the page. Going on four years, it’s been a pleasure to share creative works by talented poets and artists sprinkled throughout the Valley […]
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Works in Progress – Happy Holidays!
Amaryllis By Linda HelmichJanuary 12, 2024 Sometimes in life, though we have had a season of flourishing, we find ourselves in a dark place, all alone. We feel like a chopped off, rather fat, ugly bulb with hardly even a sign of life. “What’s the use?” we ask. Still, maybe it won’t always be this […]
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Winter Solstice
By John F. NeileyGlenwood Springs The tattered remnants of the year unwindAs Earth leans weary on its wobbling pole.The waning sun retreats to warmer climesTo shield its pallid face from wind and cold. The ragged butt ends of the day burn low,While darkness of the longest night draws near.The river ebbs and freezes, choked and […]
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No place like Glastonbury for the holidays
Winter holiday celebrations in Glastonbury, United Kingdom, also known as “the heart chakra of the world,” are a joyous mixed bag. It’s two months of pilgrimages and parties. After the Wild Hunt, heralding Hallowe’en and Samhain (SOW-en), the beginning of winter in the old Celtic traditions, comes Carnival. Floats the size of semi-trucks are pulled […]
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Drift By Eric Matthew Olander The rip roaring world is in a crazy phase, with the big blue moon winking, Drift (lounging in the wheel barrow) cracks a Red Stripe — Rastaman vibration, Yeah! Jah; one love — and lets the cap roll into the mud and feathers, shakes his head at the long and winding […]
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A Life Ornamented
By Jessica Amber Barnum A young girl meanders far from homeon a winter adventurethrough thickets of forest.She comes upona tiny pine tree,its tip a sprig in the snow. She almost steps on it,but doesn’t.She leans down and brushes the snowfrom its branches, low and highthen digs down and downwith wet mittensand wild wonderuntil she reaches […]