Four women, each receiving fragments of something they don’t understand. Each drawn, separately, toward the same answer.
Complete original · Redo in progress · Start from the beginningA mystery told
in four voices
Daisy is a young woman piecing together photographic scraps she doesn’t understand. Rosie is a little girl who goes on journeys out of her window at night and comes home with objects she can’t explain. Lily is a grandmother in Italy who has started painting scenes she has never seen. And somewhere, on a barely inhabited island, a woman named Camellia is waiting.
They don’t know each other yet. They will. Among the Flowers is a serial mystery — read from the beginning, let each voice build on the others, and follow the fragments toward the truth at the center. This is a story best experienced without knowing too much in advance.
Who’s in the story
Stoic and beautiful. She is on an island. She has been there for some time. She is not receiving fragments — she is the answer the fragments are leading toward.
Warm and artistic, living in Italy. She has started painting scenes she has never visited and cannot explain. The paintings are trying to tell her something. She is beginning to listen.
A fairly ordinary young adult with an extraordinary problem — a growing collection of photographic scraps that don’t fit together yet. She is patient, methodical, and closer to the truth than she knows.
Fanciful, imaginative, and the one receiving the clearest signals. She goes on journeys out of her window at night and comes home with objects. She takes this entirely in stride. She is perhaps the most important piece of the puzzle.
Current episodes
She is on the water. She has been on the water for some time. The island is ahead. Behind her is everything she left, and everything she had to leave, and everything she could not take with her.
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Daisy’s ordinary life, examined. The scraps are accumulating. She doesn’t know what they mean yet. She keeps them anyway, because some part of her understands that they matter.
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The water keeps going. Camellia keeps going. There is a particular quality to a journey taken alone — the way time moves differently, the way the horizon stays the same distance no matter how far you travel toward it.
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Something in the scraps clicks into place. Not the whole picture — not yet — but enough to change the shape of what she’s looking at. Daisy sits with it for a long time before she decides what to do next.
Read episodeThe original Among the Flowers ran to over forty episodes and tells the complete story. The current episodes above are a new version, being made from the beginning. Both are available to read.
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“Four women. Four separate lives. One thing, somewhere, connecting all of them — if only they could find it.”