Clifford Garstang is a fiction writer and former international lawyer. His first novel, THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY, was published in May 2019. His novel in stories, WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, won the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. He is also the author of two story collections, IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY and HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and the editor of three anthologies, EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET, Volumes I, II, and III. His new novel, OLIVER’S TRAVELS, will be published in May 2021.
>Oh, my. Here in the (for NC) deep freeze, the leaves shuttered on the acuba bushes, the lawn crackling with ice – spring will return! Thanks for this.
>OK, here's an editor's POV. I would have chosen a spot with more color so the change of seasons (all four) were more noticeable. But… (the editor hesitates), the subtleties of this scene are intense and demand attention. It might just work.