THE GARDEN By Pat Garcia

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Hello, Everyone,

This is another snippet from my flash anthology that will be released in Winter 2026.

The Garden

After many years of not being there, she’d returned and discovered how quickly things deteriorate when not lovingly taken care of.

As she stood looking at the poverty that had befallen the once so beautiful, proud garden, she wanted to cry.

She regarded the rundown house; no longer the centerpiece of roses, carnations, lilies, and yellow daisies.

Oh, how noble houses fall.

“What are you thinking, Linda?”

“You see that tree?” she answered, not quite knowing where to begin. “I used to climb it.”

Jordan laughed, “And you’re still climbing trees.”

Chuckling along with him, she said, “Yes, at my age, I’m still climbing trees. So, we’re here.  What do you expect from me?”

Jordan was the one who had encouraged them to return here. He was her husband, lover, and friend for the last seven years. Even though much younger than she was, he was concerned about her well-being than she was. Her nightmares had forced him to convince her to come back and face the demons that terrorize me.

“I hope you’ll appreciate your wealthy upbringing and let go,” Jordan said.

She regarded the garden surrounding the house in which she was born.  They were so different, Jordan and her, yet in many ways they were like homogenous barks linked together.

“You’re fantasizing again. You’re not old enough to request that I appreciate my upbringing. You weren’t there.”

“No, I wasn’t, but I love you. That alone gives me the right to help you reconcile with your past and let go.”

“Look who’s talking?  The babe among us.”

“Yes, the babe by ten years and yet your husband.”

Shalom shalom

Pat Garcia

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