Sophie Gazarian

Short fiction writer from Montréal.

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“Labyrinths” (Montréal Writes, 2020)
Lily builds mazes in her dreams. When she’s awake, she draws them with colouring pencils on sheets of loose-leaf paper.
(reprinted in Lit Parade by Les Éditions Shakespeare, 2025)

“The Lucky One” (Understorey Magazine, Issue #19: Food Work, 2020)
It’s your turn to prepare the sweet bread for the Christmas family gathering this year.

“A Learned Man” (Dreamers Creative Writing – Finalist for the 2020 Flash Fiction Contest)
I was ten years old when I concluded my grandfather was illiterate.

“White Noise” (Montréal Serai, Vol. 34 No. 3: Just Music, 2021)
My father always said that the first stories were told in song…

“Chromaticity” (Quagmire Magazine, 2023)
When she whispered to me in class or under the bed sheets in her dorm room, the words appeared to me in periwinkle. Her laugh was pure cyan.

“The World in Our Hands” (Fusion Fragment, Issue #22, 2024)
She spent the rest of the day staring at her newly hatched universe,
only leaving her room unless she had to.
(selected for Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Vol. 3, 2025)