I’m on Substack now! You can read this for free. https://substack.com/home/post/p-172703656
From Joe's writing

She’d walked away in a huff, driven straight home, put on her gardening gloves, gotten out her trowel, and replanted everything. That had been a week and a half ago, and the results were identical to the first planting. The flowers, seemingly healthy as she planted them, quickly changed color, and grew thorns.

— Tomcat, from Eventual Beginnings: Stories Short and Longer