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Storytelling is the lens through which we see the world. It comforts us, challenges us, and maybe even saves us.

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Nightflower Candor publishes short stories meant to be thoughtful, endearing, and a little weird. 

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Laugh with us.

Cry with us.

who?

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​Jonathan Arena is a writer of literary and speculative fiction exploring humanity through the strange and imaginative. His work has appeared in Rise: An Anthology of Change (winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award), Chiaroscuro: An Anthology of Virtue & Vice, and The Pitkin Review. He is also the author of Into the Deep Woods: Stories & Poems (2018). He earned his MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2023 and is the creator of Nightflower Candor.

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