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Winter 2026 | Sophie Ezzell Reads "Fear It"


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A note about the work "Fear It" from Sophie Ezzell: I started writing this piece because I had an ex-girlfriend who called herself a swan. For years, I just kept putting little facts about swans in my pocket and started seeing connections between water, religion, and swans. I also like the idea of complicating this beautiful, feminine, fairytale creature into something capable of harm as a means of showing that abusers aren’t always the people you expect. And of course then Hamlet found its way in there, as Hamlet always does.

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