Her Reading Garden

She created the perfect morning escape. Pansies and violas, hostas, and peonies. She dug and planted for days. The final touch—a wicker chair and table. The next morning, with coffee and book in hand, she startled a deer for whom her reading garden had been the perfect breakfast.

Rita Riebel Mitchell writes tiny bits of fiction every day. She lives in the Pinelands of South Jersey with her favorite beta reader.