Author

Joanna Michal Hoyt

Joanna Michal Hoyt grew up in Maine as a homeschooler; she now lives with her mother and brother on a Catholic Worker farm in upstate New York. She spends her days tending gardens, goats, and guests and her evenings writing odd stories, others of which appear in Mindflights and in Scheherezade's Bequest (forthcoming).

Toad Sister

My sister Amy came back smiling from the village well, saying she'd drawn water for a beggar-woman. She gasped when the first rose fell from her mouth, followed by a rain of diamonds. She'd thought it reward enough to see her kind lovely face mirrored in the woman's eyes. But it…