Selected Writing and Whatnot

The Rhododendrons in the Window

This story itself keeps a short leash on its structure and theme. That luxury is afforded partly because of its length, but I’d like to take some credit and say that I quite like it. It’s “edgy” in the most literal sense: the subject of the story spends the whole time on the edge of something dangerous or other, and the central question is really, “will they go over?”