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    The Garden and Other Stories
    The Garden and Other Stories
    The Garden and Other Stories
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    The Garden and Other Stories

    By KS Henning

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    A collection of short fiction and poetry in multiple genres.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKS Henning
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781370841080
    The Garden and Other Stories
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    KS Henning

    KS Henning spent most of elementary school in a state of exhaustion. She was one of those kids that would stay awake most of the night hiding under the covers with a book and a flashlight. Finally, her mother figured out she wasn't seriously ill because when she was begging for new batteries for her flashlight, she appeared well rested.https://kshenning.wordpress.com/The Corvis Series:Corvis: Book OneA Corvis ChristmasAfter Night: Corvis Book Two Coming SoonStand Alones:The Garden & Other Stories

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      The Garden and Other Stories - KS Henning

      The Garden & Other Stories

      By KS Henning

      Copyright 2016 Karen Sue Henning

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      About this work

      I admit, this is a hodge-podge of stories and poems encompassing several genres. They represent writing over several years.

      The first two stories, Melvin and Demsy Road, are flash fiction I wrote around Halloween one year.

      I wrote The Garden during a truly pathetic attempt to start a vegetable garden in what turned out to be a significant drought year. Not to mention the neighbor child who kept running off my pumpkins. I would classify this one as Horror.

      I won an Honorable Mention for Student-Teacher Relations during the Summer 2002 Writer's Weekly 24 hour Short Story Contest.

      I've also included three poems. Fantasy and Unnamed are, of course, in the fantasy genre while Summer sums up how I feel about the season.

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      Flash Fiction

      Short Stories

      Poetry

      About this work

      Melvin

      Melvin was gone. Of all the times for him to go missing, he had to pick now. Elizabeth hoped he was well. Sure, he'd disappear every so often in that tomcat way of his. But he always came home for supper. His food dish on

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