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    The Hidden Grove
    The Hidden Grove
    The Hidden Grove
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    The Hidden Grove

    By Michelle Sagara

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    A short story of 5k words, originally published in Witch Fantastic, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg.

    A young office worker overlooks a standing grove of weeping willows. There, her co-workers eat lunch in the shade. She’s tried this; all she can hear while she’s there is the weeping of children she can’t see, can’t touch, can’t reach. No one else can hear them. There’s nothing she can do, because there are no children.

    But she has to do something, has to find out some information that might allow her to hear what everyone else hears.

    Who owns the willow grove? Who cries at its heart? What does it want from a woman who has never really been wanted?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosdan Press
    Release dateMay 25, 2020
    ISBN9781927094396
    The Hidden Grove
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    Michelle Sagara

    New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara writes as both Michelle Sagara and Michelle West; she is also published as Michelle Sagara West. She lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and her two children, and to her regret has no dogs. She can be found @msagara on Twitter or http://msagarawest.wordpress.com

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      The Hidden Grove - Michelle Sagara

      The Hidden Grove

      The Hidden Grove

      Michelle Sagara

      Copyright © 2015 by Michelle Sagara

      Copyright © 1995 by Michelle Sagara

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      978-1-927094-39-6

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      Contents

      Introduction

      The Hidden Grove

      About the Author

      Also by Michelle West

      Also by Michelle Sagara

      Other Short Stories

      Introduction

      I remember very little of the writing of this story, written, as many of the early stories were, for Mike Resnick. It was written in very early 1994, by which point I was no longer working full-time at the bookstore; I had my oldest, and sleep was not his strong suit, which meant sleep was elusive. When suffering through constant, broken sleep, memory seems to be the first thing that breaks.

      A series of anthologies from DAW books was noun Fantastic; in this case, Witch Fantastic. The guidelines for the anthology were: Write a story about witches or a witch. Only in rare cases were we asked for specifics of what we intended to write—and this was to avoid overlap in plot.

      But in general, if you give authors a prompt—in this case: give me a story about witches—the stories they write, the themes they choose, will all be different, because their writer brains are a product of who they are.

      The Hidden Grove

      The children had been crying for

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