Early Promos for “Ostraca: Re-membering Sophie/Re-membering Me”, formerly “The Darkest Country and Other Stories”

Editing in Mallorca, summer 2018.

It was the spring of 2018, and I was living on the Spanish island of Mallorca. I had just completed the umpteeth draft of what would ultimately become “Ostraca: Re-memebering Sophie/ Re-membering Me”. It was a sunny afternoon and I was proudly bounding about the terrace of the villa I had lived in that winter, holding tight to a sheaf of freshly edited pages.

They say seven is a critical number. Some of the most pivotal events in our lives occur in cycles of seven. Seven years after these pictures were taken, the formerly self-published, “The Darkest Country and Other Stories” will be published as Ostraca: Re-membering Sophie/Re-membering Me” by Vine Leaves Press.

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Holding tight to the newly completed manuscript.

The 2018 promo video.

The 2018 self-published book that would become “Ostraca: Re-membering Sophie/Re-membering Me”.

Ostraca in progress 2020.

The 2025 final version set for publication on June 17th 2025 by Vine Leaves Press.