I first learned of Sophie Madeline Dess’s work when a friend sent me her story “Unfathomably Deep,” then just published in The Drift. It was sent without comment, though with the implication, I think, that here was something striking and original, that stood out from the crowd, without my friend quite knowing what to make of it. Or so I soon surmised. Reading it, I entered a Cronenbergian tale of trainee gynecologists (I since have it on reasonably good authority that Dess does not know Cronenberg’s movies) and of the female narrator’s lust for one of them, building to a violent yet comic ending that sealed its departure from strict realism in favor of the stylized and mythic.
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