My “Grand Ture” in Midnight Garden

I asked fellow Midnight Garden anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do appeared in previous Midnight Garden posts for the past week or so.

Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Midnight Garden (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).

This is the last post in the Midnight Garden series and is my…

Grand Ture:

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My “The Exchange” in Midnight Garden

I asked fellow Midnight Garden anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do appeared in previous Midnight Garden posts for the past week or so.

Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Midnight Garden (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).

Anywho, having run out of authors to post about, I now turn my posting eye on myself.

We’ll round out Midnight Garden posts with my five contributions to the anthology, this time…

The Exchange:


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My “Striders” in Midnight Garden

I asked fellow Midnight Garden anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do appeared in previous Midnight Garden posts for the past week or so.

Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Midnight Garden (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).

Anywho, having run out of authors to post about, I now turn my posting eye on myself.

We’ll round out Midnight Garden posts with my five contributions to the anthology, this time…

Striders:

Gladys stopped in the doorway between the comm, and the ship’s claustrophobic living-room. Dobrynin shuffled on his roll-bed, and she balanced herself in mid-stride, the toe of one slipper not quite touching the floor, her tiny figure framed by the comm’s instrument lighting.
Dobrynin sat up and scratched his beard and gut. “Where’d you go?”
“I had to go to the john.”
“You didn’t fuck anything up, did you?”
Alarms sounded.

How the story came about:
Striders came out some time in the late 1990s as part of a “women’s arc.” I had several psychotherapeutic clients back then and my specialty was trauma – family, spousal, childhood, combat, …
The women’s arc consisted of three short stories; Striders, The Raping of Cyrynda Strong, and Rachel, Above the Clouds, While Flying. Each story dealt with women in crisis and are based on an amalgam of the people I worked with. Rachel and Cyrynda Strong, found homes, the former in 2023, the latter in 2018.
Striders is a story about spousal abuse and one woman’s solution to her problem. It is the most blatantly science-fictional piece of the three and the most fun to write of the three. Hope you enjoy.
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My “The Last Drop” in Midnight Garden

I asked fellow Midnight Garden anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do appeared in previous Midnight Garden posts for the past week or so.

Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Midnight Garden (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).

Anywho, having run out of authors to post about, I now turn my posting eye on myself.

We’ll round out Midnight Garden posts with my five contributions to the anthology, starting with…

“The Last Drop” as shared in video:

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Ell Rodman’s “The Drummer” in Midnight Garden

I asked fellow Midnight Garden anthology contributors to share some things about themselves prior to publication and those generous enough to do so will be appearing here for the next week or so.

Each entry gives a taste of their contribution, a little about them, how to contact them, how their story came about, and definitely a link to Midnight Garden (which you should purchase because it would make each and every one of us happy.
you do want to make us happy, don’t you?
i mean, considering what we wrote, you want us to know you’re a good person, right?).

And now, Ell Rodman’s The Drummer:

Four hundred years ago, settlers left the complicated histories of Europe behind for what appeared to be a vast, unblemished frontier. What they found, of course, was far from empty. Colonists settled a land with history as old as the one they’d left behind. Rivers, lakes, and mountains that already had names received new ones. Cull County residents didn’t know who first named the three-headed rock formation Satan’s Rock. By 1988, that’s just what people called it. It was an unnatural sight; a towering jumble of black rock jutting out of the forest floor, covered in mossy vines, topped with a handful of old trees. Two lovers, the legend went, fell from its peak. Or a runaway slave that vowed revenge. Or a witch hung by the neck. No, an Iroquois shaman cursed the land. The story changed every few decades, but one feeling remained:
Something about Satan’s Rock was just plain wrong.

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