Late in 2019, I shared my painful season of infertility in allegory form. For awhile, every turn into August found me in the same place.
Childless.
In my novelette, Where Maryn Goes, I called my painful life season–Ocean. Because that’s what infertility felt like. A wide, vast expanse of nothing.
An Ocean.
The Ocean was personal to me and the allegory was an expression both of the desolation and the healing I had experienced in God. He whose Presence changes everything.
“My heart lurches in my chest. I feel suffocated and free. I feel scared and brave. I feel nothing at all.”
In 2019, I would share Where Maryn Goes through installments on my blog and also in episodes on my now non-existent podcast. It was a powerful story both for my readers and for myself as I found a way to express my heart in its grief and healing. Mere weeks after sharing Where Maryn Goes, I found out I was pregnant with our son and though he was due late July, he would instead be be born in August. The month that use to mark infertility anniversaries.
God has a beautiful handle on time, doesn’t He?!
Now what exactly is a novelette? A novelette is essentially a short novel. It’s too long to be considered a short story but not long enough to be a novella (more common) or a novel (most common).
Nevertheless, a novelette stands on its own to tell a story and Where Maryn Goes is no exception. It’s 62 pages from start to finish with only a handful of those pages containing necessary things like the copyright, the stunning cover, and my personal introduction to this piece of work.
Where Maryn Goes is a FREE pdf download for you, beautiful in presentation, and filled to the brim with powerful word pictures of God’s healing in our desolate life seasons.
“I feel something strange like Grace grab hold, and I’m pulled above the surface. A glimpse. A rescue. I open my eyes to sunrise. To wide expanse, to bright blue water, to dead flowers, to still here.”
What is your Ocean? What flowers has the Light-Maker given you in this great expanse? How is life so real and so good even when it’s split right at the seams, your heart in two, but YOU so very whole!
These are questions I hope you answer and can see clearly in the midst of reading Where Maryn Goes, a soul-stirring allegory of a dying woman becoming alive again.
Isn’t that all of us at one time or another?
“I contemplate Old Maryn. Is she still about to die? Is she still ragged and desperate? Is she still in the meadow or was that destroyed too? I shake my head to rid the questions. I do not want to get lost in the nightmares of my Island…it is enough to endure Ocean for another night.”
Not only can you read Maryn’s story of healing in Where Maryn Goes, but Maryn is now a part of the Green Fables universe as she recently appeared in Under the Wilderness Moon which you can also read free on my Substack! Get to know her first in Where Maryn Goes and then get lost in The Garden of Green Fables series on my Substack and read more about Maryn’s life as it continues past Ocean.
But first–add Where Maryn Goes to your book stack and go on the powerful journey of reawakening to life right where you are.
Ocean though it may be.
Sierra V. Fedorko 
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