Andrew Plimpton

Andrew Plimpton's stories have appeared in Heavy Feather Review, The Dalhousie Review, and in other venues. His plays have been performed at The Tank in New York City, and he is currently working on a collection of stories and a full-length play.

Sophia

Sophia built her first shrine when she was six years old. She took a fragment of a fallen bird’s nest, decorated it with dandelions and acorn shells, and surrounded it with a circle of stones on the surface of a tree stump in her backyard. The tree had come down very recently, and she’d been staring out the window at the place where it used to be. No one had taught her to build this shrine; she had no word for what she was doing.