Planting Seedlings: So Many Stories in a Day

By Ann V. Klotz

Stories, I thought when I was little, were always fiction. A fanciful child who loved to read, I made up novels in my head as I walked an elderly neighbor’s apricot miniature poodle. Influenced by Charles Perrault and Frances Hodson Burnett, I fashioned elaborate tales featuring orphaned girls in remote castles as the grumpy dog sniffed and sniffed. I penned an epistolary novel with a quill dipped in an actual inkwell and tucked the letters into the secret compartment of my...