“Will you always love me the most?” “Cross my heart and hope to die.” This was how we made promises back then. Nose to nose in the playground, we solemnly swore allegiances and spat on our thumbs and pressed it together to seal the deal. “Words mean something, Jojo.” Amber Burroughs, my best friend said …
“I always see the little people on your ceiling,” Lizzie was lying on our bed when she said it, chubby cheeks flushed and damp hair sticking to her forehead. “What little people, sweetheart?” I snuggled closer to her, feeling her rhythmic breathing and smelling milk on her breath. She waved in the general direction of …
A few deadlines rushed up on me this week but everything came together in the end with an early draft completed for an anthology due out later this year, and a YA piece submitted for an international fantasy anthology! In a kingdom of witches and wizards, how evil must a witch be to imprison her for life?
A big congratulations to Nick Lachmund for his win in NiTH’s “To the Nines” award. His story Eight was commended for its “casual prose contrasts starkly with the violence running as a undercurrent through the entire series.” NiTH gave great feedback on my story, Whispering Time – Part 2 of The Old Ones, saying it “upped the creep factor on her spine …
Arianna Carrington and I won first place in the NiTH All Tomorrow’s Barbies award with our story Annabelle’s Feast! NiTH published some very kind words about us and our story, as follows: “…Arianna Carrington & Sophie Macdonald delivered Annabelle’s Feast, a hauntingly camp horror tale where neither narrator seems to put a foot right. Our winners …
My story The Pact – Part 1 has won NiTH’s Duets & Duvets award!! From NiTH “While Sophie Macdonald proved that attraction can be more than a brief moment, with The Pact, a heartfelt look at love that stands the test of time.” Lying under those starch white sheets, with tubes in your arms, and the machine …
What a day! I am really excited and honoured to have had my story, The Pact (pt 2), chosen as the winner in the second part of Needle in the Hay’s Duets & Duvets competition. From the announcement: “Sophie’s ‘The Pact: Part 1’ set the standard two weeks ago, and its heartfelt and emotive conclusion …
I am very honoured to announce that One of Nine – Part 1 of The Old Ones has won Needle in the Hay’s To the Nines award! NitH had some great things to say about my story “Sophie MacDonald conjures supernatural horror with the creeping (and creepy) Old Ones…. Our winner for part 1 succeeded in not …
Coming September 2016 – Obliquity
This is a short story collection by authors in Australia who were inspired by the many and varied meanings of the word ‘Obliquity’. Two of my works are included.
