I Found Something Bright Red in My Garden and Paused

held all the power in the garden. It was nothing more than a small, smooth growth, but the not-knowing turned it into a threat. Only when it was calmly considered as a likely fungus, not an omen, did the tension loosen and the scene shift from alarming to oddly fascinating. The fear hadn’t come from the soil; it had come from the story being written continue reading …