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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

“Do you have pen ............” by Miraculous Life

Submitted to Contest #86

The crowd has a life of its own, the people move like enchanting shoals of fish . It was the time of spring festival, in park there is a chatter between buyer's and sellers.I sat on handcrafted unoccupied wooden bench, Everyone around me were content, cheerful, fortunate but inside me certain emotions were talking too loudly neither did the crowd hear them nor did they hear crowd voice, so they did not shut up. Inside me their was like a continuous tornado of guilt rising of why.. Why I didn't understand?? Everyone was keen in celebrati...

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“Bunny Troubles” by Adam Schwartz

Submitted to Contest #86

A long swath of white fur was draped across Sarah’s chair when she arrived at the zoo’s animal health clinic for work. Puzzled, she lifted it gingerly to discover a pink nose with whiskers and a pair of comically large eyes. Long satin ears flopped down the back. The rest of the veterinary staff watched her, unsuccessfully trying to hide their grins. “What the hell is this?” demanded Sarah. Rod, the zoo director, took two slow steps towards her, crouching a bit. He held both arms out to his sides, palms ...

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“lost kids” by Elizabeth Gomiller

Submitted to Contest #86

March 19 2021 this Spring festival some high schools kids move from Texas to do high school in Georgia two were bestfriends and their girlfriends Mina,Momo and Tsu,Toru they all go to school together so on the weekend the four plan to go to the festival so they got ready to go to the festival. So when they got there they went on some rides then they ate some food they had to leave because it was getting dark and all had to be home by 11pm and it was 10pm so they get in the car but a man ask if they could find his cat and they said yes so the...

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“I Will Follow You Into the Park ” by Nikita Linivenko

Submitted to Contest #86

You slipped out of the house halfway through the Vincent Price marathon. I don’t think you could’ve seen me. We went downhill together; I think I wet myself somewhere along the way. You stepped through the east gate onto the green, the Walpurgis Night bonfire already heaped and leaping high with benzine. You hung around the edge and watched the glow and though there were people there you knew, you didn’t talk to anyone. You passed, not even a ghost, less than a ghost through the crowd. Glances fell over you – someone with a beer bottle in ha...

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“Friendship on Spring” by Rey Thomas Leopando

Submitted to Contest #86

An afternoon of a good spring. The cold breeze flows through the air with the leaves abiding the wind. The sun was not so hot, in fact the surroundings are bit humid, there was I and my best friend walking pass the hallway towards the stairs. The people are gathering around the park downstairs.Life around me was the very definition of dull and boring. It was lifeless and I always ever wondered why it was even called life. The days were a repetition of finite mediocrity.It all changed that simple afternoon. We were strolling down the hallway ...

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“Circ Di Triumph-an AI's journey” by Peter Bombara

Submitted to Contest #86

“So, what are you planning to do on your leave CALYPSO?” “I do not have any clue Melissa…what are you supposed to do on your leave anyway?” Melissa laughed amusingly. CALYPSO was unsure why she laughed, though she just decided to leave it at that. Ever since CALYPSO, the AI, had created herself a body some time ago, she never had friends. Much less the important fact, she was not sure if she even needed friends. The people that she worked with, were never the types to be friends with someone like her. After some time, and deciding to make fr...

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“The Wakeful Dead” by Millie Du Preez

Submitted to Contest #86

She didn’t know whether it was the hunger or the incessant screeching of the hibernation alarm going off that initially woke her, rustling her from her hibernation after all these years. Her youth hadn’t been touched by the past 256 years of hibernation; immortality had its’ perks after all. Though waking up from hibernation could feel like a slump to the world of the ever living, or the immortals, as they called themselves. Some just called themselves ‘the hunters.’ Last time she had been awake the humans had caused their own apocalyp...

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“Sienna” by Bob The Cool Guy

Submitted to Contest #86

I haven’t talked to Sienna in so long, I think. My best friend. I don’t have her phone number. I need it. I pick up my phone and text her mom: I miss Sienna. Do you know her phone number? But then, I get a text saying I shouldn’t see her. But why? I ponder. That’s exactly what I text Sienna’s mother, Ms. Jones. Still, she says no. I look for her the next day at school. But mysteriously, she’s disappeared from school. I ask all of my friends if they’ve seen her. They don’t even seem to know she exists. They don’t. I keep asking, but every tim...

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“Hey, Are You Okay?” by Adelaide Murphy

Submitted to Contest #86

What do you do when your mind collapses on itself, when the entire world seems bleak and empty? What do you do when your body gives up, and even walking across the room to pick up the TV remote seems like a tiring chore? What do you do when exhaustion overtakes you, when the action of putting on a fake smile and pretending everything is okay destroys what's little of your sanity? She’s been wondering this for a while, from the comfort of her bedroom. That's the only place she can think, without any distractions except for the growing pile of...

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“Back to Life” by Rajesh Patel

Submitted to Contest #86

In this part of the world, winters can start as early as mid-October. The days start getting shorter. The sun sets earlier. The cold kicks in. You see less people walking past sunset. It gets really quiet. It feels like the town is in hibernation. If ever the snow starts even earlier, then, a few, like me, we don’t leave the house anymore. In my case, I have a contract with my employer where as soon as the first snow fall arrives, I am allowed to work from home. Till when? Till winter ends. So easily, I stay home from November 1st, so...

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“Spring Beginnings” by Jenne Gentry

Submitted to Contest #86

“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs The sun peeks in through small crevices in the thick, out-dated curtains, refusing to be ignored. “It's time,” Lucy announces to the empty bedroom. She's been holed up for months in the quaint little house that she'd bought, sight unseen, in a desperate attempt to escape from a bad situation. An aftershock, of sorts, she'd shut down entirely and spent her days hiding under the covers. It was as though she'd forgo...

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“Winter Awakening” by Raymond Ogilvie

Submitted to Contest #86

I woke to a knocking near my head and a mouth cracked dry. My bones popped and creaked as I stretched for the first time in months. It was great to be out of that cramped coffin. “Good evening lazy pants, you hungry?” I nodded to Jules, my brother born 80 years before me, but my best friend. A tickle ran across my face, which I seized with my thumb and index finger. I crunched the spider in between my teeth. The blood of arachnids was never as tasty as those from mammals. “So winter’s come already? Seems like just yesterday we shut in fo...

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“Deliver Us From...” by Jeannie Labelle -Potvin

Submitted to Contest #86

She fell into the winter with a carcass covered in layers and layers of beautiful brown fat. Lovely layers hanging low, covering wounds inflicted over a thousand years. Battles fought, some won, some lost but each one leaving behind a wide wake of damage. Each step out onto a fresh killing field, leaving yet more scars. Stabs that twisted and turned, leaking blood at every orifice . Stabs that punctured organs nestled deep within a frame so battered and bashed that it knew mostly, only pain. She had endured pain so ...

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“The Window” by Lunny Muffin

Submitted to Contest #86

In the empty hours of the silent morning, the clouds above cleared a path to the light, parting the space between the cold air. All days seemed empty to him he thought soundlessly from behind the window. He watched slowly as the light of day crept from where it had wondered off. It came out with no rush. Touching the bits and pieces of the new dawn without a care in the world. He consorted that it must be the work of fate. Life moving on with a pace so slow that matched a lot of things in his life at the present time.With each parting cloud ...

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“Cat Naps” by RIC .

Submitted to Contest #86

“Wake up.” I don’t wanna. “I know you can hear me. Wake. Up.” You can’t make me do anything! “Leave her alone, she’s just taking a cat nap.” Cat nap… my brothers. Where are my brothers? “Yeah. For the past sixteen hours!” Sleep. We all huddled in a pile. All four of us. “Let her sleep!” Yeah let me- SPLASH What. The. “Hell!” Her roar echoed throughout the cave, bouncing, and rebounding off the walls. All four heifers stared at her, disappointed, except for one. ...

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