Spring 2023 - Wormies

We owned a farm at the edge of a protected moraine. The well water was cold and sweet and tasted of fresh wind and summer breezes. The walls of the house had music in them, trapped Methodist hymns once sung in the parlour. When you were very still, you could hear the lingering notes. The building itself swayed in a storm and rocked us to sleep while the weather and the world raged outside. We were cradled in that space and safely kept …


Bio:

Lucy E. M. Black is the author of The Marzipan Fruit Basket, a collection of short stories (Inanna Publications), and Eleanor Courtown, a work of historical fiction (Seraphim Editions). Her novel Stella’s Carpet (Now or Never Publishing) was released in October 2021 and is a study of intergenerational trauma. Her new novel The Brickworks (Now or Never Publishing) will be released this fall. She lives with her partner in a small lakeside town northeast of Toronto.

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