Day upon day, and edit after edit have gone into the latest short story from Maison de Vere, “Barren Eden,” which (most coincidently) comes to you this Easter weekend on Amazon Kindle.

The birthplace of original sin was said to be a garden paradise. Yet what kind of paradise would it be if the tree which spilled forth knowledge upon its branches, the most valuable of all bounties, was forbidden? All of Eden was bountiful, but when the serpent tempts the fate of all mankind by sowing the simplest of seeds into the mind of its fair inhabitant, he cultivates a garden of inspiration and awakens the true essence of what it means to be man…and woman.