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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TRUTHBy Nancy Bo FloodMemorial Day 2025 This Memorial Day is especially meaningful as I reflect on the many people in my family, in our country, through many generations, who have given years of their lives to protect democracy and freedom for us. How can their contributions be minimized, even erased from history? I am deeply […]
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Springtime and dandelions Young people from across the Valley wrote poetry for the inaugural Dandelion Day Youth Poetry Contest. Zizi Levine had one of the winning poems, “dwarf star.” And we threw in a couple of extras from fourth graders Henrietta and Chase from Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork. dwarf star By Zizi Levine […]
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Poem for my momBy Megan Flood For Nancy Bo Flood, from her daughter, Megan, following a retreat in Chacala by the sea. I don’t want to try with poetryI just want to smell the guava ripening on our windowsill,Taste the silk and crunch of the flan in the stickyPlastic cup And celebrate the pelican As […]
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Works in Progress – April 30, 2026
Excerpt #4By Golda Wolfe All rights reserved by the author. The simplest explanation for why Baron von Lingenhoven felt tired every morning was that he did not sleep well. His ex-partner Buzz White was so enthralled by Vail’s skiing that he had forgotten to mention the traffic grinding day and night along the interstate that […]
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The Messenger …
By Rosemary BurkholderFebruary 2023 While working at my computer, movementon the ridge across the valley caught my eye.Without my glassesI could tell it was a big bird.The sky overcast the light flatthe terrain a composition in black and white withgenerous amounts of snowblanketing the earth.From the window, being nakedwithout my glassesI […]
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‘April is the cruelest month …’
This is an excerpt from an essay written by Pat Noel about the explosion in the Dutch Creek No. 1 Mine in Coal Basin on April 15, 1981. The full essay can be found in the late Stan K. Badett’s book “Digging in the Dark,” a copy of which was recently brought into The Sopris […]
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A dog’s storyBy Tom MercerCarbondale-ish It was a rainy August morning when Alan first heard the scratching on his front door. Initially, Alan simply ignored the sound, assuming it was a tree branch that had broken off of the tree in his front yard. But for a half-hour the sound persisted, so Alan stood up […]
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A GOOD BYE-LINE
To: Raleigh BurleighFrom: JB The Sun is settingOn our editor, Raleigh.And he’s not just leavingTo go get a tamale. He’s leaving our town,And The Sopris Sun,To explore what’s out there …He’s had such a great run! The Sun won’t shine nearly as bright,Without you as our chief;It just doesn’t seem right.It’s been several yearsWith you […]