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The Story Behind Where Maryn Goes – grab your copy free
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… Continue reading
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In the Heart of It – a poem for mothers at the end of summer
the last baby bird to flyflewand the first of the fewsunflowers to bloombloomedand deep in the heartof Junewe plucked red strawberriestwo by two. and I’d say, don’t looknow, but Ialready knew—summercaught windof us again,us wild little thingstakingour sweet oldtime. summer is a cleverthief, I’ve foundand somehow,somehowunderthat smooth-talkingsun,we grew and grewandgrewwithoutever knowingit. -S.V.F., In the Heart of… Continue reading
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A Guide to Your Free Downloads
If you’ve stumbled across this blog you may be here for flowers or poetry or perhaps you found me through my writings on infertility or the birth stories of my children. Either way, you’re here. And there is a lot to explore since I have been blogging in this space since 2012! I have changed… Continue reading
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Expanding Green Fables One Story at a Time
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… Continue reading
