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Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh's fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize and the Virago X Stylist short story prize. Her debut novel, The Water Cure, is published by Hamish Hamilton in the UK and forthcoming from Doubleday in the US.

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Lena Andersson's ‘Acts of Infidelity’

Book Review

July 2018

Sophie Mackintosh

Book Review

July 2018

Acts of Infidelity is the second novel by Lena Andersson that follows unlucky-in-love heroine Ester Nilsson, and it’s another scalpel-sharp look at a doomed...

Fiction

May 2018

Self-Improvement

Sophie Mackintosh

Fiction

May 2018

I had been sent back from the city in disgrace, back to my parents’ house in the country. It...

look at your kitchen look at your kitchen oh my god look at your kitchen it’s delightful only wait ’til you hear what my husband said how it’s all very well if all you’ve got to do is look after the kids i mean he doesn’t have to get up in the night i mean he doesn’t have to get up in the morning so i get it in early: going from being a full-time event manager with a social life, a very fulfilling life, to being a full-time mum is a big shift i spend a lot of time mourning my old life i mean i’m very happy i wouldn’t change anything but it’s hard it’s difficult it’s lonely although i’m doing the most important job in the world i feel like a sack of shit but it’s fine i’ve been volunteering not doing a huge amount cold calling funny cos thats why i had a baby in the first place to get away from that shit and then the festival was this weekend for me, it was work i was going to enjoy myself i wouldn’t get too fucked up and i could go back go to the tent to feed him so friday night was fine but then saturday lloyd disappeared called me 2 hours later like i’m in luton what you doing in luton? urghdunno he said he was at the airport there were people laughing in the background i said: just remember in 2 and a half hours you’ve got to take the baby an hour later i called again this time he was in gatwick what you doing in gatwick? ughdunno 630 comes and the door opens he’s soaked in alcohol 10 minutes later he’s sleeping so i do breakfast and i go up at 730 to wake him i-i-i-i think you should get up and like it’s just so bad i’m already this kind of person i thought the transition was going to be harder but i’m settled i guess anyway guess who i met at the festival probably one of the most famous people in the world but it’s the motherfucking principle – i have to go to the festival with my baby because you’ve been on a fucking booze binge round London airports i just felt like such a gooner really bad really bad really really really bad your responsibility your child you’ve known about this for 3 fucking months i was so angry and he’s such a

Contributor

April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh

Contributor

April 2016

Sophie Mackintosh’s fiction has appeared in Granta and The Stinging Fly, among others. She was the winner of the...

Grace

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

Sophie Mackintosh

Prize Entry

Issue No. 17

14. It comes for me in the middle of the day when I am preparing lunch, quartering a tomato then slicing each segment in...

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fiction

June 2012

Spinning Days of Night

Susana Medina

fiction

June 2012

Day 1 in the Season before Chaos   These were the days before the glitch. The weather was acutely...

poetry

October 2015

Two Poems

Robert Herbert McClean

poetry

October 2015

Another Autumn Journal Chaos (AKA Do Not Put This to Music Because You’re How Fish Put Up a Fight)...

fiction

January 2014

The Dispossessed

Szilárd Borbély

TR. Ottilie Mulzet

fiction

January 2014

The Dispossessed is Szilárd Borbély’s first novel, although he has been active – and widely acclaimed – as a poet,...

 

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