The Empty Greenhouse She Paid to Heat for Ten Years

A pragmatic woman in a winter coat stands shivering in an empty, frosted greenhouse, looking down at a massive String of Dolphins plant in a heavy ceramic pot.

Clara stood shivering inside the frosted glass walls of her mother’s greenhouse. Her breath plumed into the freezing morning air. The sprawling wooden benches were entirely bare, stripped of the orchids and ferns that had once filled the space. Dead center on the cracked concrete floor sat a single, massive ceramic pot. Thick, cascading vines … Read more