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#86: Springtime Flowers

March 21st may be considered the first day of Spring by many, but Mother Nature doesn't always agree. Depending on where you live, the daffodils could be showing their sunny faces or still hibernating under frozen soil.

For me, it’s usually a mix. Here you can be wearing shorts one day and shoveling snow the next, but one thing is consistent: as soon as the weather warms up, I’m bursting outside to gulp down that fresh air and watch the world come back to life. This week, regardless of what the weather actually holds, let’s celebrate the season of rebirth and renewal. After all, in our imaginations the sun can always be shining and the birds can always be chirping!

This week's prompts

Set your story at a park during a spring festival.

Spring – 82 stories

Write about a character coming out of a long hibernation (either literal or metaphorical).

Spring – 158 stories

Write a fairy tale about someone who can communicate with woodland creatures.

Kids – 168 stories

Start your story with one character pointing out the first sign of spring to another.

Spring – 107 stories

Write a story where flowers play a central role.

Spring – 278 stories

Stories

“Maytime” by Aburrow Marsh

Submitted to Contest #86

Spring Has Sprung!Jay West chuckled, reading the sign. Yes, spring had sprung, alright. He felt it everywhere he looked. Fruit trees were blossoming, pollen drifted in thick yellow sheets, bees buzzed, and the sun felt warmer than it had in months. He could scarcely recall the foot-deep snow that had fallen four weeks ago, such was nature's transformation. He strolled into the Kroger store on Main Street feeling reborn -- or about to be.Cynthia had texted him only an hour ago, making a suggestion that caused something else to spring. He had ...

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“The Dahlia Show” by Gerald Daniels

Submitted to Contest #86

Father sat with his legs outstretched in front of the gas fire, his feet so close to the heat that the steam rose in a continual haze. He was still wearing his gardening clothes and the bottoms of his threadbare jeans were circled with mud which would eventually set solid and flake on to the carpet as he moved about the house. As he dozed his head flopped to one side, the light from the standard lamp emphasising the weathered skin of his face and the da...

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“Of Wisteria and a Moon” by Reed G

Submitted to Contest #86

A wisteria. A bleeding heart. A snowdrop. These are the flowers weaved through her hair, her clothes, her heart. These are the flowers that represent everything she is, everything she was, everything she will be. A wisteria – immortality. The curse and blessing she is burdened with. A bleeding heart – for all her friends and lovers and children that have come and gone, who now only live in her head and in her heart. A snowdrop – the end and the beginning. When the snowdrops sprout, Winter ends and Spring begins, and she begin...

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“Humbert and the Flower-Breathing Dragon” by Jocelyn Pierrard

Submitted to Contest #86

Let’s just say that Humbert wasn’t your ordinary dragon. While most dragons hoarded gold and burnt down villages, Humbert decided not to jump on that band-wagon. All of the dragons he knew breathed out flames to scare others and show their power. But being afraid of fire himself, he decided that he would much rather spend his time breathing in the lovely scent of… flowers! &n...

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“Time Flower” by Dashiii Vargas

Submitted to Contest #86

The land of Majika, a land filled with magical creatures, big and small, and it is also home to brave and strong adventurers.In the land of Majika, lies the valley of Bloom Town, a town located at the upper right of the land of Majika, just beyond Star Flake valley. And in this town of Bloom lies the Time Flower, a flower aging long before the town is built.The Time Flower is the first sign that spring is over, it blooms on the very last day of snow time and blooms on the very first day of spring time. It signals the residents of Bloom Town ...

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“Blindfold of flowers (and thorns)” by Emma Harris

Submitted to Contest #86

It's been about a month. We've been married for a month and ..... she still hates me. She's amazing. She's intelligent, talented, gorgeous, and perfect! But ..... she hates me. She absolutely hates me. We've known each other for at least four or five months now and she still doesn't even want to talk to me. We even sleep in the same bed but she won't even acknowledge my presence. She agreed to come with me to the annual Spring Festival that the city I was raised in has every year. It's huge, and it's the perfect time to tell her how I f...

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“A Girl Walks in the Woods” by Victoria Lucas

Submitted to Contest #86

Once upon a time there was a little girl With great big eyes and bright red curls She lived in a village near the whispering wood And her family was poor but they did what they could At a very young age she learned to hunt for her food And her weapon of choice was a bow that was crude Her mother had warned of the dangerous woods And not to go hunting where no man should Her mother told stories of vicious man eating beasts But the little girl’s belly cried out for meat So she picked up her bow and her little red cape And headed towards dange...

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“Tiptoe Through the Tulips” by John Steckley

Submitted to Contest #86

Melody walked through her garden very slowly and carefully that day. For reasons that she knew only too well, it was absolutely necessary for her to tiptoe through the tulips at this moment. The explanation is a long, and occasionally complicated story. Here it is. In her teenage years Melody had become a flower child, a hippie. Her given name was Priscilla, which she changed when she turned 16. At 18 she literally charmed the pants off of a very successful businessman in his mid-thirties. She wasn’t attract...

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“Some Days .......” by Marianna Mills

Submitted to Contest #86

Snow melting at last, the harsh bitter cold and storms finally gone and over, the morning air crisp but the afternoon sun warm and inviting. It was March end in the Colorado mountains, snow capped mountains still breathing - always snow in the high hills here. But now, signs of life and change in weather made the promise of a beautiful summer ahead. Leon Black and his wife, Joanne, lived in the tiny village, had a small cottage home with some nice acreage around them, she loved her garden and he loved to do his word working outside with the ...

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“Five Empty Piñatas” by Hannah Gutelius

Submitted to Contest #86

Rachel stepped back to take a look at her work and nearly gagged. There was nothing in the world she could do to make the carnation-encrusted unicorn look any less pathetic. It didn’t exactly look like a unicorn, more like a depressed beagle with a single, crooked antenna. Rachel sighed and set it down next to the other four unicorns Mrs. Wagner had commissioned for her daughter’s ninth birthday party. With a knot in her stomach, Rachel cautiously loaded the five ugly carnation creatures into the back of her van and drove to the site of the...

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“The Flowered Warrior” by Sierra Tkacik

Submitted to Contest #86

She smells like lilies today. He noted, leaning against the window sill, mask dipping down his nose ever so slightly. Rian couldn’t help but lose himself in the domesticity of seeing Norma hum and dance around her little home, cradling little succulents and ferns and moving them from shelf to shelf, all the while checking on a… something she had in the oven. “And all birds and plants will sing…”“I’ve never seen a lady as pretty as she.” He finished, alerting her to his presence. “Well, hello, stranger. We meet again.” She wasn’t su...

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“Simply Spring” by Bobby Spina

Submitted to Contest #86

There were a hundred hints of Spring in the air when I took my dog outside on this fine morning. The air itself was warm and comfortable, more so than it had been in months. It was refreshing and replenishing as I took a deep breath under the cozy March sunshine. I snuck a smile. This was my favorite time of year, where the weather was just right, and the wind seemed to hug you back. Spring was upon us, and with that, the days longer and warmer. The sun brighter and happier. The grass greener and fuller. And people's smiles reflected the joy...

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“Another Fairy Tale” by Srestha Mondal

Submitted to Contest #86

Once upon a time, this was a beautiful Garden.Now, I sit below the broken rib-cage of a tree.I see a skeleton of an arm dangling over my head. Once upon a time, this was a branch. Hope falters in its gaunt, dying fingers like the flickering glow of fading stars in the shroud of night’s darkness. Once upon a time, those were its twigs. Foolish little fingers they are, still waiting for that touch, the touch of the Hand of Life. Years have passed, those silly twigs should have given up already, like the rest of the Garden, like me. They should...

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“Dark night of the soul ” by Jinger Stukes

Submitted to Contest #86

The dark night of the soul..what is that. Something stupid obviously something fake. I’ve never know someone who’s gone through that? Have I...oh no...pacing, cold under the weather they say. No something else...something different. It’s like who I was does not exists and who I will be hasn’t been created so where do I land? Where am I..who am I? Pieces of me start to fall off. Purging and aching my body is in flames. It hurts so bad I can’t feel anything. Ripping me piece by piece. Section by section psychically, energetically mentally and ...

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“My Flowery Soul” by Lis Lovén

Submitted to Contest #86

My Flowery Soul… You know, it might sound funny or weird or what else? It is really something ´other`. Very often I have been called a Tulip or a Rose or a Lilac. It was very odd, but no. I could not think about just being a woman being picked because I had beauty or because I had sex appeal. Right on the spot of my own being I craved to be like a female flower. FF. Female flower – see! I had nothing to do as I lived out in that very small county, well small when it came down to meadows and such. Anyhow it gave me a lust to write poetrie. ...

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