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Brief fictions written for the L.A. Downtown News under the pseudonym “Sophie Dover.”

Just Add Pee

By Daedalus Howell | May 7th, 2003
By my own precise design, I have always aspired to be what women’s magazines pithily refer to as a DINK ? double income, no kids. My own my mother says that kind of thinking can only lead to being a SKANK ? single, killjoy and no kids What she fails to realize is that I [...]
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Alas!

By Daedalus Howell | August 7th, 2002
It’s not that I shoplifted per se, I don’t even shop – let alone for clothes. I’ve evolved past the “hunter-gatherer” stereotypes. Moreover, I have the fashion sense of a color-blind chameleon, which is to say I wear a lot of black. Many women dress to camouflage their perceived flaws. I dress not to be naked. [...]
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Secretary

By Daedalus Howell | July 4th, 2002
Let me tell you about corporate power. Our company is the perfect specimen of the multinational conglomerate, so diverse in its operations, so vast in its holdings that, in our competitors’ commercials, they simply refer to us as Brand X. My boss, Mr. Gamete, is in acquisitions and development. There is a constant barrage of business [...]
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Le Temp

By Daedalus Howell | June 17th, 2002
Anyone who’s done a modicum of living knows that one’s career trajectory is never how it was imagined when a child. I, for example, am not a veterinary pioneer or a superhero. I do not remove a thorn from a paw or save the day or live forever. I am a temp ? a sufficiently [...]
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