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Blooming for Death

Cyndi Hebert

Submitted to Contest #35

It was a beautiful spring evening and I was walking through the park. Petals were bursting from their buds and their perfume rode the breeze in the air. Often when I thought of spring, I thought of new life; new beginnings. This spring, however, only death was on my mind. The beauty of the flowers, the sound of the birds, the buzzing of the bees and the warm sunlight on my skin couldn’t help my dark thoughts as they pervaded my mind. I wondered why flowers were sent to dead people. Why did they mourn death with something so beauti...

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