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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

“Springs' Reasons Why” by Pam Brand

Submitted to Contest #86

"Mom, why can't I go have ice cream with Johnny?! You know his parents. Come on! it's just ice cream and I'll be back before dark." "Hannah you know how your Dad and I feel about this kind of thing." Hannah began tearing up and ran upstairs. As she entered the bedroom , her sister was lying on her bed crushing over the newest teen magazine with the popular heart throb on the cover. "Geez Hannah, where's the fire?" " Susie you don't understand. Mom won't let me go see Johnny. It's just ice cream! Why's she always treating me like I'm a baby?!...

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“Sakura” by Priyadarsini Ganguly

Submitted to Contest #86

‘The dusk breeze is carrying the scent of orange jasmines. I can sense the first sign of Spring in soft whispers of the lime green leaves,’ she said aloud in a manner that appeared to be a declaration rather than a statement. Not knowing how exactly the flowers smelt, he decided the air must smell the way she it. It was a Cool, crisp, cinnamon-y breeze, which were drying the droplets of sweat off his forehead. It wasn’t a particularly warm dusk but he had been out all day, absorbing the sun’s blazing enthusiasm and copious amount of cigarett...

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“What Spring Looks Like” by Hannah Dominguez

Submitted to Contest #86

"Did you know that in other countries, they've got four seasons?" Bryle turned to look at his little 5 year-old sister, Bell. The two siblings were sitting at their front porch as rain pours down unrelenting before them. It had been raining since the morning, and because of that, school was canceled. Apparently, there was a typhoon coming, so the children needed to stay home. There wasn't many things that Bryle can do sitting at home, maybe watch TV or play video games, but he was getting bored of that. He actually missed school....

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“Violets and Daffodils” by Maggie Hanes

Submitted to Contest #86

Yesterday, I saw a patch of daffodils. They made me want to scream. To rip my hair out and cry, grief making me all the more dramatic. You got me daffodils, remember? Every Valentines Day. You thought roses were too cliche. I would laugh and smile each time I saw you with a bouquet of them. You would say they reminded you of me. Bright, happy, unique. You made me feel beautiful and special. That's what you did. You brought out the good in the world. I didn't speak for the rest of the day. An overreaction? Yes. But when I saw them, all I coul...

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“A Crystal Rose” by Celeste P

Submitted to Contest #86

“Jemma!” Jemma turned around. A boy ran towards her, a flower in hand. She sighed but smiled. “Hello.” He came up to her panting. He held up the flower. “Can... can you turn... turn it...” He was doubled over panting. “Yes.” He nodded. She took the flower from him. It was a Lily of the Valley. She smiled. She pulled off one of her gloves and watched as the flower crystalized. The white flowers turned to diamond-like crystals, and the leaves and stem turned to emerald-like ones. She handed the delicate flower back to the boy, careful not to...

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“A Garden To Die For by Francesca Quarto” by Francesca Mohan

Submitted to Contest #86

A Garden to Die For: A Eulogy for Spring "It's absolutely breathtaking, Meg!" gushed one of the Mornay twins. Meg couldn't tell them apart, so she merely smiled, bowing her head demurely. Meg Randall was hosting the 'The Mississippi Bountiful Gardens Society' at her country estate. This was their first gathering since reforming, a process that occurred on a yearly basis as members always seemed to drop off after the first meeting. The current group had high hopes of avoiding that outcome. ...

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“Rot” by Aoife Meagher

Submitted to Contest #86

She had arrived in Falling Creek on the last breath of summer. On sidewalks, leaves had begun to blow, and in the church, the piles of lilies that some devout stacked reverentially in front of the shrine to the Virgin Mary had begun to brown. On her first night there, she tracked puddle-wet footsteps on the white pavements towards her hotel, and felt herself hope against hope that this sleepy, saccharine town might be home, because it felt homely already. Worn, warm and flowery. The same way she thought of herself, but she already knew that ...

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“A withered Flower” by Slade Is Live

Submitted to Contest #86

what is a flower? the seed-bearing part of a plant, consisting of reproductive organs. But flowers are much more than this. Flowers gives us power and inspiration to face this cruel world. . Every summer at Gramma's house all my life has been full of 'Purdy Flowers' as she pronounces it. Not a single corner of her yard is without a flowerbed and there are always hummingbirds and songbirds from dawn till dusk. Every summer has always lead up to fair time. Gramma has competed in the local fairs for decades. When I first started to wo...

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“Bucket List” by Julie Murrow

Submitted to Contest #86

He was awake but he kept his eyes closed against the warm sunshine. Tentatively he wiggled his toes against the smooth cotton sheet and breathed out a sigh. He relished these few precious pain-free seconds because he knew that as soon as he moved his legs he would be swallowed up in pain like a slow motion action movie tsunami. Unstoppable and devastating. With a resigned frown he positioned his hands so that he could push himself up into a sitting position. Teeth gritted, he started to put weight on his hands and wrists and the...

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“From Buds to Blooms” by Elizabeth Genova Heberle

Submitted to Contest #86

The mornings were not the same. Dad was still in and out of the hospital with surgeries, and this year became a blur between dialysis and in patient stays almost every other month. Michael was still in the hospital as well for the last two weeks. The initial shock had worn off, and now senioritis became this weird, unwanted gift of guilt and shame. He was in an induced coma to reduce whatever it was the doctors said was happening. It was a miracle, they said, that his brain hemorrhage stopped, the surgery was successful, but whatever that ...

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“Garden Therapy” by Moira Christensen

Submitted to Contest #86

Garden Therapy The flower boxes are a mass of color, yellows, pinks, purples, orange and red. He is overjoyed with the rainy days, feeding his garden those special nutrients that only rain can do. The flowers look so fresh, bursting with brilliance. This is his garden, his happy place, his savior. He had been plagued by constant vertigo attacks. His life was a constant battle and she prayed that one day his whirling life would stop, and their life would be “normal” again. No amount of prayers could change the cours...

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“Lovers in Spring, Strangers in Summer” by Trishie Chikerema

Submitted to Contest #86

Inside the simple words I write is a glimpse of an untold love story and hope for a life that will never become a reality. The path that leads to my heart is littered with flowers of every kind, each holds memories of the life we’ve lived. I am the enchanter held under his own curse that binds me to her and on the sands of this path, only her footprints exist. As I wait for spring to bring color to this path, I retrace the journey that subjected me to this life. A small smile on my lips as I remember the first day we met. The sun glistening ...

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“Michel and the Rose-a Retelling.” by Michele Duess

Submitted to Contest #86

This would make a great once upon a time story, Michel thought. Except, I’m in it. Maybe the next time someone tells you a place is haunted you’ll believe it, said a voice inside him. If there was a next time which seemed doubtful, considering who was screaming at him right this very moment. All because he’d dared to ask why he’d been captured. “Why are you in this cell?” roared the monster. “Because you stole my flowers!” Michel was amazed he could look at him without screamin...

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“Spring flowers ” by Ally Evans

Submitted to Contest #86

The light shone through my kitchen window as I poured myself a cup of tea. The first sign of warmth and brightness this year, it was nice. I missed the feeling of the sun on my eyelids. The entire winter had been drab, the sky grey, with about a foot of snow and constant hailstorms making it awful to go outside. I rinsed my cup and put a light sweater on before stepping out the door. Today’s as good as ever to take a stroll. It was late enough in the season that the world didn’t give off that muddy vibe. You know the one, where t...

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“An Aromatic Demise” by Rheniya Thornberg

Submitted to Contest #86

I remember Mom vividly. As though decades hadn’t passed since I was that troublesome nine-year-old kid. She was young then, probably not much older than thirty. She took me in, just like the other Moms had, to care for me until either someone adopted me or until she got tired of me and sent me off to live with another Mom. At first, I expected her to be like the others. Cold and callous, only in it for the money. But she was different. She seemed to care about me, in a way that seemed weird and foreign. I knew because she would look at me wi...

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