Sofians

In the fall of 2015, seniors at the American College of Sofia were asked to read either Dubliners by James Joyce or The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. For their final writing assignments, students wrote their own stories in the style of either author, but instead of Joyce's Ireland or O'Brien's Vietnam they were to write about their own city--Sofia. What follows are seventeen fictional tales about the inhabitants of Bulgaria's capital, seen from eyes of a generation of young Sofians burgeoning on adulthood. This collection includes a mix of dark, light-hearted, romantic, heartbreaking--but mostly dark--stories that show what it's like to live in Sofia.