Sharon Tate discovers the presence of Elizabeth Taylor in her street: starring as a soap opera icon with a relentless appetite for adoration, the grease of lipstick, flowers, and human skin.
Phantom Trial
There Are No Happy Loves: A Retrospective of Forgotten Films by Sophie Strohmeier. Letterpress printed. This book is part of the Queer Chapbook Trio published in the summer of 2018. A program for an imagined film festival, fan fiction for all the best lesbian films that never were. This text first appeared in Apofenie on May 4, 2018. 6.25″x4.5″16pp.
Edition of 49. $35. Contact for purchase information.
About the author: Sophie Gertrude Strohmeier is a bilingual writer and translator of fiction and nonfiction. Her long-lost love, however, is illustration. She received her BA in Romance Studies from the University of Vienna, and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Alabama. A 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow, Strohmeier is the author of the surrealist Lesbian novel “Küss Mich, Libussa” (edition a, 2013, in German). She lives in Brooklyn. To learn more about her work visit her website sophiestrohmeier.com .
