The first piece of mine accepted by a literary magazine is still the closest to my heart. It was published in Gargoyle Magazine 71 (thanks to the wonderful @peabody.bsky.social) and later appeared online at Porridge Magazine. My mother would have turned 84 today.
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Garden of Weeds – K.P. Taylor
Image by Annie Spratt, via Unsplash. My mother loved her garden: the Lily of the Nile, the roses, the lemon tree, the hydrangea at her bedroom window. Hydrangeas flower blue or pink depending on yo…