A Winter Night

34-year-old Angie Dugan struggles with many things--anxiety, her career as a social worker in a retirement home, and her difficult family. Her biggest struggle, though, is finding love. When she meets Matt, she's swept away by his attention. As issues from his past come up she wonders if she can trust him. Should she break if off, or give him another chance? In the end, all she can do is listen to her heart, and evaluate what she wants most.

Anne Leigh Parrish's novel, An Open Door, will be published in October 2022 by Unsolicited Press. Also forthcoming from Unsolicited Press, her first poetry book, The Moon Won’t Be Dared, will be available in the fall of 2021. Previous titles are: What Nell Dreams, a novella & stories, (Unsolicited Press, 2020); Maggie’s Ruse, a novel, (Unsolicited Press, 2019); The Amendment, a novel, (Unsolicited Press, 2018); Women Within, a novel (Black Rose Writing, 2017); By the Wayside, stories (Unsolicited Press, 2017); What Is Found, What Is Lost, a novel, (She Writes Press, 2014); Our Love Could Light The World, stories (She Writes Press, 2013); and All The Roads That Lead From Home, stories, (Press 53, 2011). Her short fiction has recently appeared in New Pop Lit, The Slag Review, and O:JA&L. Recent poems have appeared in Mocking Heart Review, Crow Literary Review, S/tick, Wilde Boy, Feminine Collective, 34thParallel Magazine, and Q/A Poetry. She lives among the evergreen trees in the South Sound region of Washington State.