One of my short stories, "Wayfinding," has been published in the Fall 2019 issue of The Avalon Literary Review—available in print or as a pdf.
The spire of Salisbury Cathedral, which Hazel visits on a tour of southwest England, comes to represent her hope of redeeming the deeply troubled relationship between her and her son and granddaughters, a single solid, bright thing to sustain her as her life draws in, draws frighteningly toward its close. The cathedral spire becomes a source of meditation and mediation for her.
"Hazel's intention, as she'd told herself over and over, was only to set free a wistful prayer, fragile as one of the Holly Blue butterflies found in old churchyards. Palest blue wings with a small spattering of ink spots, embryonic words. What she had loosed instead had been catastrophic."
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