The Garden - live streaming
Join me on YouTube every Wednesday at noon EST, for a live streaming reading from the novel The Garden: Next week - The Garden of Despair - Bitter Roots.
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Step into an imaginary world where stories unfold in their own time.
The stories below are some of the listeners’ and readers’ favorites.
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Eliza: Beginning Alchemy - a poem about life’s transformations
A treasure of perfume surrounds me.
I'm poised to fill little thimbles with happiness essence: the smaller than fingertips whimsical toys, all doors making way for the memories' entrance.
Jessica: On Being Here - a poem about everyday magic
Believe or not, call truth or doubt, to me that’s all ok.
My soles wore out the silver dust along the winding way.
I’m making ways, I’m dreaming dreams, I cast all qualms aside
While I’m still here, while I breathe air, while I am lived by life.
Jessica: Angel - a sweet Christmas story
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a little girl received an angel decoration. She couldn’t remember who it was that gave it to her, or on what Christmas Eve that was, but every year since she would look at the little angel and make a wish.
Jessica: Angst
I haven’t written in a while and the words keep piling up inside my mind, and their essence builds up in layers that get thicker and denser with each passing day.