Short stories by Christine Sneed
Christine Sneed is the author of the novels Paris, He Said and Little Known Facts, and the story collections Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry and The Virginity of Famous Men (Bloomsbury USA & UK). Her work has been included in publications such as The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the Midwest, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Zyzzyva, New England Review, The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and O Magazine. Her feature script The Female Gaze was one of 150 semifinalists, drawn from 7,831 entries, in AMPAS's 2020 Nicholl Fellowship competition. She has placed other original scripts as semifinalists and quarterfinalists in the Austin Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Filmmatic, New York International Screenplay Awards, and Screencraft Comedy Feature competitions.
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A college girl discovers she has an older half sister and grapples with the aftermath of being sexually assaulted the previous year.
In a contemporary American city, a young artist’s affair with a wealthy older man who acts as her sugar daddy leaves her trapped in a pernicious cycle of shame.