Sophia Efthimiatou
Bio
Stories
Sympathies of the Mad and Lonely
From All Over &West Village about Crazy people, F Train, new in town, New York Transplant, On the SubwayPublished on: 01/30/2011
Sophia Efthimiatou is currently pursuing her MFA in creative writing at Columbia University. She previously worked as a finance and business editor in New York.
It’s the swinging 70’s. Everyone I know has tons of sexual partners. I am 28 and only lost my virginity two years ago to a farm boy I met at The Guthrie Theater. The romance continues for a while when I get back to New York, but then, he writes me a Dear John letter. […]
One afternoon this summer I was on the subway. All was normal. Well, except that we are in a pandemic, which makes venturing down into NYC’s netherworld — one with poor ventilation and tons of non-mask wearers – feel like I am putting my life in my overly sanitized hands. It all seemed surreal. The […]
I was only five, but I knew my mom and dad were in court that day fighting over custody rights. The rainy gray outside—plus the turmoil of yelling and crying, nighttime stirrings, and mornings waking up in different rooms or houses or cars, and not understanding what was going on or where exactly was home—had […]
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