Stories
by Joy Renee

How Does Your Garden Grow
Marion, not yet fifty and apparently entering the change of life, is losing her vision and is forced to re-vision herself and all her relationships

Running In Circles
Margot still dreams of her high school track career and what might have been if she had not gotten married at sixteen to escape an unhealthy home.  Now, three years later she is the mother of two and her home is a reprise of the one of broken dreams and broken souls she thought she had escaped.

Blow Me a Candy Kiss
Iris and Greg are childhood sweethearts married for over ten years now and still longing for children of their own.  The longing has created a tension in their relationship which they handle by making the subject TABOO.  When tragedy strikes they must find a way to respond to one another's grief.  A grief made so much deeper becase of the grief they had been denying for so long.