The Peace Gardens
When plants become repositories for the unspoken words of the dead, two estranged siblings must listen to their mother's garden to heal a twenty-year rift.
The Peace GardensThe rosemary sounds like static when it's angry—seventeen years of Margaret Chen's voice, crackling with accusations about ungrateful children and wasted piano lessons. I planted it next to the sage three days ago—sage that hums with the same woman's whispered apologies to empty rooms. Now they're doing something I've never heard before. The rosemary's static is softening. The sage's hum is getting strong...
