In 2019, I wrote Where Maryn Goes. A few months later I would find out I was pregnant with our first baby. Where Maryn Goes was received well by my readers, but suddenly not experiencing infertility had me writing poetry again and pursuing that creative path quite eagerly.
It was such a gift to once again have the mental capacity to return to poetry as I hadn’t done so in years! In the process of writing poems again, I laid aside any more ventures into allegorical fiction and have since published three personal poetry collections.
But then January 2026 rolled around.
Once I pushed through my imposter syndrome and initial writer’s block, I waded back into writing fiction again. This time leaning more fable than allegory. I can’t tell you how quickly and voraciously I wrote The Heart of Hugh once I just started.👏 (There’s a lesson in that somewhere.)
When the first draft of that novelette was officially completed, I would find out I was pregnant with our fourth baby. I had planned to do more edits on The Heart of Hugh, but processing my fourth pregnancy, being incredibly sick in the first trimester, and helping our youngest daughter through her sudden illnesses took everything out of me. You got The Heart of Hugh in a much more original form than I had planned!
Yet, the timing of our fourth pregnancy—wild as it was—still felt quite poetic since I had just written out portions of my infertility story from an oak tree’s POV. Of course, The Heart of Hugh focuses on Hugh as it should and my parts in his story is like background music, a way to set the scene for his journey back to life.
As I wrote the second novelette in our Garden of Green Fables series, I realized I could combine the world of Where Maryn Goes to our Green Fables series. I have often felt Where Maryn Goes would forever be its own stand-alone story and would never get to connect to any other of my novelettes. Yet, I have officially completed the first draft of our next novelette and Maryn makes an appearance with the possibility of showing up more times throughout different works of mine!
World-building has been such a treat and not something I have ever really tried before. I am a big fan!
On Monday, I reveal the title, cover, and synopsis of our next novelette on my Substack. Follow there to get the news straight to your inbox, but I will also share on the blog sometime next week too! If you are subscribed both to my blog and my Substack—thank you! I know some things might feel a little repetitive as I launch a new novelette in our Green Fables series, but I promise it will be worth it.
If you have no idea who Maryn is I have linked the entire novelette at the bottom of this post for you to download completely free and read at your leisure. It will give you a taste of my writing style and how I explore themes of healing while also tackling the complexities of faith and life in the Lord with honesty and hope.
Once you read it, you will have a rich back-story to the brief, but special moments in our next novelette that feature the entrance of Maryn in our Green Fables series. I hope to write much more of her story in the future!
Where Maryn Goes
Sierra V. Fedorko 
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