Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include The Old Knowledge (Swan River Press 2010) and Damage (PS Publishing 2016). "In the Garden" was selected for Best New Horror 21 (2010), and "Random Flight" for Best British Horror 2015. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing.
DEAR JOHN: There are times when something affects you deeply and alters the way you look at the world. It's happened to me on several occasions when your father and then you were born; so vulnerable yet full of possibilities; and last year when I learned of my illness.
