The World at the End of My Garden: A Novella-in-Flash

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The World at the End of My Garden: A Novella-in-Flash

The World at the End of My Garden

Written by Gillian Walker
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An English textile artist accompanies her husband to live in Tucson, Arizona for a year. Her world shrinks to a gated community of strangers and the view of the arroyo at the bottom of the garden. Escaping from a regime of fertility treatments and miscarriages, she learns to tolerate the heat and the snakes. With the help of Samuel, a mysterious boy who lives across the arroyo, she explores the landscape, learns its history and falls in love with Tucson’s flowers and seasonal rains. As the year passes, she finds a new direction for her art and life.The World at the End of the Garden is a novella-in-flash about the discovery of self, the meaning of home, and the place of humans on the planet.Gillian Walker is a writer based in the UK. One of her first publications was in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, 9.2 (Oct. 2016). Subsequent flashes and short stories have appeared in Popshot Quarterly, Ambit, Into the Void, and Jellyfish Review. She has been a finalist in the F(r)iction Flash Fiction Competition and nominated for Vestal Review’s Best 17 Stories. The World at the End of the Garden was a finalist in The Black River Chapbook Competition run by Black Lawrence Press in the USA. She is an associate editor for Vestal Review.The chapbook features sixteen stories: Welcome to Arizona, Breaks, Finding a Heartbeat, The Snake, Underneath the Paloverde Trees, Muted, Rock Art, A Crack in the Patio, Appropriation, A Change of Light, Weaving, Community, Adoption, Flowers, The Conversation, and The Washing Line.

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Pages 52
Language Eng
Publisher Flash: The International Short-Short Story Press
Published February 26, 2020
ISBN 52094004
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After spending years working in the corporate world, Gillian Walker finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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