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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

“Glimpses of the other side - My spiritual awakening” by Elle S

Submitted to Contest #86

I long to discover what being on the other side is like.I've had elusive whiffs of it. I've taken fleeting glimpses of it - miniscule parts of an overwhelmingly wide vista. I've tasted the robust flavor of it. I've felt the consummate warmth of it. I've heard of its amazing splendor. How do I get there? Well, that is my secret.You see, I have visited the other side, but I have not trulybeen a part of it. Each time I rouse from my physical sleep, I have a missionin mind, and that is to access the other side. Although my senses haveperceived a...

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“The Mind of a Patient” by R. Fisher

Submitted to Contest #86

Sweat trickled down my forehead, dripping on the side of my face, tickling me with its movements. It gathered and formed a bigger droplet, only to fall and disappear in the air.The snow ridden path slowed my running, still I kept moving. I wouldn't even doubt if someone told me I was in a swamp, just the sheer difficulty in treading the snow was unimaginable. Without rest, my feet took step after another seemingly afraid of what might happen if they stop. An intangible entity crept up from behind, indicated only by the wind following it...

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“Spring - A Child's Tale” by Cynthia Haltom

Submitted to Contest #86

Matilda was in a joyous mood as she looked out across the vast dew covered field. She sang and danced as she thought of the task at hand, planting five acres of petunias. Her favorite colors were violet, orange, pink, red and yellow, and the job she had been given was monumental for one person so she decided she would need help. Sitting on the ground with her legs crossed, fingers interlaced and laying in her lap, she closed her eyes and began to recite the poem that would summon the Woodland fairies.“Oh Woodland fairies far a...

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“Creature of the Wild” by Chloe :)

Submitted to Contest #86

It was around one in the morning when my uncle came home, a couple hours earlier than he usually does. At the sound of the door slamming shut I prop open my door so that only a sliver of vision is provided to me.My uncle comes in, stumbling, a drink in his hand. I know his destination, the couch. He never uses the bed, he probably can’t find his way to the actual bedroom in time before falls to the ground. Drunk, obviously, he hobbles over to the ugly plaid recliner in front of the TV. You could compare his walk to Captain Jack Sparrow’s fro...

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“If You Happen To Be Magic” by Ellasyn Carpenter

Submitted to Contest #86

"Piper wake up..." I wake up to see Chitter leaning over me. They brush their tail over my nose and I sneeze. "What's wrong with you Chitter?" I ask and brush an acorn out of my hair. "Wrong with me?!" Chitter squeals "Check the date Piper!" I look at the calendar. "Shoot!" I jump out of bed and Chitter flies across the room and clutches to a wall. "It's a good thing I'm a flying squirrel otherwise that would had really hurt!" Chitter says. I sigh and begin doing my hair. "You aren't a flying squirrel, you're a normal squirrel." I say throug...

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“NEVER SUBMIT TO THE DARKNESS” by Ali Hamzah

Submitted to Contest #86

Many years ago, I was a young lonely man who loved hiking through the forest because for the fact that I never did like people. I either found them extremely annoying or extremely boring to the point that I would dread waking up and talking to my neighbour, Mrs Hudson. She would always smile like everything was fine in the world and she would always offer to give these cookies. Well, nothing was okay. My girlfriend had just broken up with me. My father had just passed away. I got fired. So, I decided to go into the forest and I came back wit...

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“A Season of Silver And Gold” by Bernadette Jackson

Submitted to Contest #86

April had sauntered in bearing a sunny afternoon on the first day I decided to work in the garden. My work was mostly mundane, but it was always cheered by birdsong, the wind in the trees, and the sun warming and mellowing the brick until it threw back heat to the table where I sat. I picked at my lunch for a few minutes, watching the birds zooming in and out of the trees in the gardens. Then the old fox came to take his afternoon rest at the bottom of the Scots Pine, his bed soft and supple with many years of fallen needles.&...

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“The Tale of Princess Ivana and the Chipmunk” by Shelly Desjarlais

Submitted to Contest #86

Once upon a time, there was a shack that nobody dared to visit. It was home to a strange creature named Brutta Wartsnout, a witch who resembled a rhinoceros. She used to reside in the castle, but the cruelty of Princess Ivana forced her to leave. Some weeks later, she settled into a shabby house on the outskirts of town and officially opened for business. Every peasant knew that if they had a problem, Brutta Wa...

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“5 years ” by Morgan Crews

Submitted to Contest #86

levtashion “Katie, come to the office you are getting signed out.” That was the last thing I heard before my life had changed forever! I waited in the car while my mom was screaming on the phone about a lake house in some kinda woods, I think. It was winter and 10 degrees so I hoped we weren't going there. Finally, my mom got in the car and she didn't say anything. I asked her where we were going and she said” don't worry about it”. At this point I was a little bit scared, like is my mom a criminal or something. A...

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“Stellan the Mighty” by Emerald Lace

Submitted to Contest #86

Deep inside the bright, sunlit woods stood a cabin made of black and twisted branches. The stone chimney pumped out blackened smoke most of the day. No one dared bother the inhabitant of the cabin as he toiled away under the heat of his fire. And that’s the way he liked it, for he did not need interactions or paltry problems of the creatures that stirred outside these walls. Stellan The Mighty, the last of the trolls, now hid away with his forge and metal as his only companions. He had long since s...

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“The Red Fox” by Gracie C. McKeever

Submitted to Contest #86

Oliver Morgan woke to his feathered friends chirping outside as sunlight streamed through the dingy sheets at the cracked, pealing bedroom windows to pierce his eyelids. Spring had sprung but Oliver’s life was still in the crapper.This too shall pass.Oliver heard the words as if Gramps was sitting beside him and whispering in his ear. He’d been seeing and hearing Gramps a lot lately, almost as much as when he’d been alive.The unconventional and wily Wiccan had made an impression on his life, no doubt, the only saving grace of Oliver’s e...

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“Apple pie” by Damian Nowacki

Submitted to Contest #86

Finally! I ran around our huge garden, the grass just touching my knees, the sun was also shining brightly onto me. It was the beginning of spring! My dog, Fred chased after me, all around the place. I was FREE. Then, Fred noticed the cat and chased Walbright (the cat) and they both landed with a tremendous SPLASH! Into the little stream. Walbright just sprang away and ran indoors to mind its own business, while Fred was splashing in the water, after our long trip. I sup...

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“Zainab and Cheetoh” by Niyyah R. Haqq

Submitted to Contest #86

🐿 Zainab walked into the backyard with her mug of steaming tea and a thick book. Finally, Saturday. No rules, no homework, no sixth grade. Spring break was here, and her best friend had left town. It was the first year her Baba didn’t sign her up for a camp, and she was all about it. This was just how she wanted to spend it. Alone, reading, and gorging herself on butter cookies and honey-lemon tea. She surely wouldn’t head onto the trail on spring break. They’d all promised her that she could lay low. After placing he...

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“Esmeralda and the Woodland Creatures” by David Dicaire

Submitted to Contest #86

Esmeralda and the Woodland Creatures Once upon a time, there was someone who deserved more love than she received. Esmeralda was not a very pretty girl. She wasn’t the smartest girl in school and certainly not very popular. In fact, she was the one kid everyone picked on. They were mean to her and bullied the young lass. Many of the other students watched as she was pushed around and humiliated. They couldn’t believe that she would take all of that nonsense and not fight back. ...

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“U LE NA HIDV USDI (LOST BABY)” by Sheila Payne

Submitted to Contest #86

Once upon a time in a far away land, of daffodils and dragonflies, lived a Cherokee girl, she had fallen off the wagon, when her family was being moved, and no one had noticed, the little bundle fall out, and roll down the hill ,since they were traveling at night. She landed at the foot of momma yona's cave. Momma yona heard the whimpering, and cautiously went out to see what it was. She saw the human cub wrapped up, and looked around for the others, but didn't see anyone. She didn't know what to do, but knew she couldn't leave her out there...

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Title: Flowering Walrus

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