My story “It Begins In the Garden” is available to read right now in Aliterate. (It’s been out for a few days, but apparently I totally missed that it’s up.) So very excited to share this story. It’s a strange, odd little tale about children, a garden, and some very peculiar ladybugs.
Read “It Begins in the Garden” in Aliterate.
The story seed for this was a memory of when I was a kid, playing with some other children outside the apartment building where we lived then. I was maybe five? six? We built a small dirt-enclosure and put ladybugs inside it. It must have been a lot of fun, because I remember the whole thing so vividly, even now.
Anyway, the story spun off that.
Thanks so much to the editors of Aliterate for picking up this strange and peculiar story!
Maria Haskins 