Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.
What could be more spellbinding than a rose garden? These multi-blended images were composed in memory of my ancestor who was twice accused of witchcraft. Though acquitted the first time, at the second accusation she escaped with her family in the dead of night.