Jon Sokol - Writer
Jon Sokol is a writer and a professional forester. He lives in Hartwell, Georgia with his wife, Karen, and their cat, Layla.
He mostly writes short fiction often drifting toward southern gothic and his fascination with all things peculiar.
27/02/2022
I got the opportunity to tour the house of one of my heroes. Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia near Milledgeville, GA. Thanks to the for setting it up.
27/10/2021
"After a Reading of 'Darkwater'"
- Elizabeth Curtis Holman (1920)
I did not think... I did not know...
What pale excuse is this I make
In answer to my brother’s woe,
Age-long, for deep injustice sake!
Across his mute and patient soul,
While I have gone my heedless way,
The shadows of a fate might roll
That deepened night and darkened day.
But I have read a burning page,
That glowed with white and soul-wrung fire,
And now no more I may engage
My conscience with a feeble hire.
For all the wrong I did not heed,
Chance-born in happier paths to live,
I cry unto my brother’s need
One word of love and shame... forgive!
09/12/2019