Author

Lyn C.A. Gardner

Catalog librarian by day, Lyn C. A. Gardner coedits the journal Virginia Libraries. Her first book of poetry, Dreaming of Days in Astophel, will arrive from Sam's Dot Publishing in February 2011. She's had over two hundred poems, stories, and articles published in Strange Horizons, the Green Knight Press anthologies Legends of the Pendragon and The Doom of Camelot, Challenging Destiny, MindFlights, Talebones, The Leading Edge, and more. Two stories and a poem earned honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling); six poems were nominated for the Rhysling Award (SFPA). She is a 2004 graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

The Mysterious Barricades

Lucy bent over the shoebox, sifting through curling paper and cracked photographs. So many secrets. She'd been too young when her mother died. All she had now were these scraps of life: birth certificates, faded letters, notes from her grandmother in French. Receipts for…