The Fiction Desk Looking for Submissions

On the theme of  'Gardens'

Until the end of July, we're looking for short stories on a theme of 'gardens':

"Private gardens, public gardens, or shared gardens. The neighbour's garden, or gardens of the rich and famous. Secret gardens, exotic gardens, well-kept gardens, forgotten gardens, haunted gardens, dangerous gardens, gardens of the past or of the future. What do they mean to us? How do we use them - or not use them? What might happen in them - or not happen?"

You can find out more about this call, or send us your story, on our website right here. (If the theme doesn't grab you, we're also open for general submissions: see here for details.) Meanwhile, I've dug up (ha!) some sources of inspiration from around the Internet, from books to news stories....