Beyond the Green Garden

My story, Beyond the Green Garden, has just been published in the debut issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly.  In the story, a young couple on holiday in Portugal find a doorway in their hotel leading out into a beautiful garden.  When they disregard a warning not to go out into the garden, they come to wish they hadn't followed that particular path to its end.

Like a twisted Narnia tale (it even has a fawn - albeit not quite as innocent as Mr Tumnus), for me, this story is about the fear of getting older.  Some of its imagery was inspired by two paintings:  Autumn by Bill Martin and Untitled by Nick Hyde.