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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

“Mine Be” by Cara H

Submitted to Contest #86

Mine Be Mystic Gallery “Let us have a little fun with this place, Yadira,” Nyarlathotep suggested to his daughter, spinning in a rapid pirouette, and trading his sharp royal blue ensemble for a zoot suit composed of wild patches of colors and patterns seamlessly woven together. “The good Princess Ondina wished for this gallery to be a place where visitors could leave their cares behind. As you have observed, each of these paintings is the gateway to a wonderful world, but none of these worlds is our world. Let us create a gateway to our very...

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“Flowers are a way to bring a smile to the one who receives them” by Andrea Mattarelliano

Submitted to Contest #86

Flowers have always had a special meaning to me, Either me buying them for someone special or on the receiving end, Its not everyday that i get flowers, so if i get them it makes me feel like that person thought of me enough to buy me them, When i was a little girl my dad and I had a special bond, Not only was i his little girl but i was born on his birthday and he has told me time and time again that he gave me his birthday, I loved my dad, he is now in heaven and I miss him greatly, Before i got married and started my life with my husband,...

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“Never Wake Up” by Julia Julia.lawson0401@gmail.com

Submitted to Contest #86

I awoke this morning in a precarious situation. I was in the hospital and the second I opened my eyes, doctors swarmed me. I was besieged by white coats asking me intimate questions, I’m assuming to see if I was in a state of amnesia. My first conversation went something along the lines of: “Hello. I am Dr. George Newman. What is your name,” he said it cautiously, like I was an imbecile, but I tried not to take offense. “I am Marybeth Goldstein, but I go by Beth.” “That you are! And how old are you Beth?” “I am twenty three years old. Bo...

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“Petals” by Moon 🌙

Submitted to Contest #86

This story is just for fun, but feel free to read it if you would like!(I DO NOT want to win this contest, or any, it is just for fun 😜)~Petals~By Toca Fox"Bye boss! Have a great weekend!""Goodbye, Caroline! You as well!"The sun beats down on my skin as I leave the antique shop and look down at my Fitbit and scan the top of the screen to see the time 4:21pm. Perfect! Just in time to get back to the my apartment and get ready for my interview at 5. The clouds above me growl and whistle howls of wind as if telling me they are about to open up....

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“Small act of Love” by Amogh Bodhi

Submitted to Contest #86

Orange rays of setting Sun travelling through the branches of the trees touched me through the window, but could lighten nothing inside me. That place beside the window is where I sit for hours, in company of a mild but persistent headache and never passing body pain. It is vividly visible that nature follows a routine, a cycle, a pattern that transforms the world around and that’s how life keeps going. But what happened seven months ago has frozen the nature inside me, and left me only with the pain in my heart and body both. I always grie...

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“The Land of the Gentle Forest” by Steve McKenney

Submitted to Contest #86

Long ago in another realm, a lively young girl named Simone lived with her mother, Elena. Hidden deep in the forest, at the edge of a small field and built into the hillside, was the stone house in which they lived. The house faced the small field, dozens of different types of wildflowers grew among the long, lush green grass; it was like a playground for Simone. Trees towered over their house, edging the small field like a gigantic picket fence.Simone was a mischievous girl; she was always asking her mother questions. Many times, she fired ...

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“Suffocation” by Paddu Menon

Submitted to Contest #86

SUFFOCATION.by Paddu Menon Today. It was the first thought that came to her as she woke up. He was gone. And, soon, this bedroom, the house in whose eastern corner it sat, and the tiny garden outside with its gnarled old red hibiscus and the half-grown mango tree they had planted together, all those would be gone as well. It was the strangest feeling ever. Apart from that the garden was abloom. She had loved the hibiscus in different colours, the roses big and small and the hydrangeas and the chendus. Common but so colourful. Supri...

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“Damon’s Aestivation ” by David Target

Submitted to Contest #86

Damon’s last venture into the house was six weeks before when late one evening he had discovered that not only had the batteries in his torch died but that there was no oil left for his old lamp either. Thereon he’d stocked anything he might need in the shed, gratified that he had successfully forged a resemblance of the surf-bum existence that he had had back in his early twenties. This was his sole, short-lived, glimmer of satisfaction, however. Back then, it had been fun and exciting. This was all about coping. In those halcyon days, he...

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“Quinn and the Fauna Fairy” by Siobhan Mulalley

Submitted to Contest #86

Morgan was woken by a tapping on the window. As she opened her eyes, she groaned when she realised it was still dark. This had better be an emergency. Groggily she climbed out of bed wrapping the blanket around her. Spring was around the corner but the nights were still chilly. She walked over to the window to see who it was that had disturbed her slumber. Peering out she was startled to see several forest animals, chattering amongst themselves. “What is so urgent that it cannot wait until morning?” All the animals started at once a...

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“Wither ” by Tanisha Alby

Submitted to Contest #86

‘’The flowers my lord, they have seemed to droop even more so than yesterday.’’‘’Nonsense Vinsel, they seem perkier than ever.’’‘’My lord please, action must be taken, your denial of the flowers Is causing more pain.’’‘’Vinsel please, what else will I do if I don’t deny it.’’‘’Seek help my lord!’’‘’Enough nonsense Vinsel you know nothing can change this, now leave me and the flowers.’’‘’As you wish my lord.’’The slow steps of Vinsel leaving caused a soft breeze to be placed on the back of my bare neck, the feeling soothed me. The door closed...

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“Winter's Spring” by Joe Swanson

Submitted to Contest #86

Daffodils blooming, and in the most unexpected places. Not being indigenous to the coastal region I find anything that offers a glimpse of life before April, suspicious. I begin to look for the source of the deviance, usually a nuclear power facility that has gone awry, or a Cannabis sativa drying facility, that has gone up in smoke. But alas it is just the temperament of the rain forest that brings life to the innocuous observations of a winter now past. I do find it contemplative, that Daffodils should find their way to the ...

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“Wake up. Wake up.” by Jam Aboy

Submitted to Contest #86

I found myself walking in the silent corridor of the building. The second floor is too quiet. It is only me and the hushing wind. All classrooms and dormitories are empty; all are messy. I try to walk and walk until I reach the side stairs. I suddenly stopped. I do not know where I am going. Likewise, I do not know where I started. My mind is in blank space; there is nothing to hide, there is nothing to be seen. I have goosebumps because of the place. I felt cold, and it gets more intense as the wind passes through me. The last mark of winte...

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“"The Man Who Lived in a Big City"” by Sofia Lugo

Submitted to Contest #86

Some time ago, there was a man who lived in a big city- he lived for his work where others work to live their lives. He was cold to people and did not have any friends of his own- he would prefer to be alone. Oh, but when he was young- he was kind, generous and open, something so foreign to him now. When 6 years-old, the boy lived with his grandmother- Every noon they would visit the beautiful garden full of flowers and different plants, in which he would pick flowers and arrange them for his Grandmother’s kitchen counter -as he knew she lo...

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“Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” by GulSaba Asif

Submitted to Contest #86

Love is one of many themes in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. ... Lily and Snow Flower became friends very quickly. ... She could not up straight or function properly knowing Snow Flower may no longer lover her. ... Also, when Snow Flower was dying, the sworn sisters told Lily that Snow Flower had never loved them, ... And once again, Lily was there for Snow Flower.A tale partly about life, partly about revolution and about hope is something kind a general and shallowly standard story to think of it in first. But as the story figuratively mo...

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“The Names of the Rose” by Kathleen March

Submitted to Contest #86

No le toquéis ya más, que así es la rosa(Don't touch it any more; that's what the rose is like.)Juan Ramón JiménezA Rose is a Rose is a Rose.Gertrude SteinThe lily has a smooth stalk,Will never hurt your hand;But the rose upon her briarIs lady of the land.Christina Georgina RosettiJe vois la vie en rose.(The world is rose-colored to me.)Édith PiafI am always being given horrendous assignments in this job. Maybe I should quit and get a different one, a better one, one that wouldn’t send me into mad mood swings all the time. Just when I had re...

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