The World at the End of the Garden is published as an A5-sized chapbook.

It is the fifth in a series of chapbooks of quality flash fiction published by Flash: The International Short-Short Story Press.

An English textile artist accompanies her husband to live in Tucson, Arizona for a year. Her world shrinks to a gated community of strangers and the view of the arroyo at the bottom of the garden. Escaping from a regime of fertility treatments and miscarriages, she learns to tolerate the heat and the snakes. With the help of Samuel, a mysterious boy who lives across the arroyo, she explores the landscape, learns its history and falls in love with Tucson’s flowers and seasonal rains. As the year passes, she finds a new direction for her art and life.

The World at the End of the Garden is a novella-in-flash about the discovery of self, the meaning of home, and the place of humans on the planet.

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Gillian Walker is a writer based in the UK. One of her first publications was in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, 9.2 (Oct. 2016). Subsequent flashes and short stories have appeared in Popshot Quarterly, Ambit, Into the Void, and Jellyfish Review. She has been a finalist in the F(r)iction Flash Fiction Competition and nominated for Vestal Review’s Best 17 Stories. The World at the End of the Garden was a finalist in The Black River Chapbook Competition run by Black Lawrence Press in the USA. She is an associate editor for Vestal Review.

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