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

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

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who?

​Jonathan Arena is a writer of literary and speculative fiction exploring connection and 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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