Sometimes a piece doesn’t end up where I think it will. This story was originally written for a small collection I’ve been working on. I never intended to submit it individually to a magazine because most publishers require a certain percentage of a manuscript to be published vs. unpublished. Anyhow, I wrote the piece, added it to the manuscript, and then…it didn’t work! For reasons I still can’t quite explain other than a gut feeling and the fact that I say “light” a little too much throughout the collection, in the end, this piece didn’t make the cut.

So, I sent it out for submission, hoping to find a different home for it.

Read “The Night Gardener” in Nightingale & Sparrow - Issue XIV, starlight.