Joy Manné has written many books on personal development. Her PhD is in Buddhist Psychology. After retirement she turned to writing fiction. Her flash fiction has appeared in several print journals including Lakeview Literary, 100 Voices and The Ham, and ionline in Cafe Aphra, Chicago Literati and the UK National Flash Fiction Day collection 2017. She has published three children's picture books. She is currently working on a collection of linked stories.
This is a tale about Nora’s mother Julie who has dementia and resides in Butterfly Residence. But it is also about the underside of the small town of Long River—a colony founded by women who had escaped brutal husbands.