Wildflowers and Present Tenses is the first book in a series of three by Patricia Lucia .
Lucia presents the stories in her memoir with a magical twist, creating a Crone narrator, her future self, who tells these stories by a fire to an audience of fairies who gulp up the libation the Crone has left out for them and throw the petals from her wildflowers into the fire - their homage to her.
The Crone introduces each story with wisdom and fondness for her younger self.