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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

“I'm lost” by Snjeguljica 33

Submitted to Contest #86

Zero still wonder where Jude was and what he is doing now. He knows exactly where he has made a mistake, but he is not sure if he would have done it differently now after two months. He tried, God witnessed him, took a cell phone several times to call or send the message, then he changed his mind and just dropped it down. What he could offer Jude at all? A boy from orphanage with traumas which has not yet cured. Bad boy LA Devil. A lost boy who did not know what love was. Then he would fall into bad days and do what he knew best. He slipped ...

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“Bubbly is my alias ” by Emmanuelle Shemko

Submitted to Contest #86

Author’s note: use of explicit language; Trigger warning: depression, anxiety, addiction and suicidal tendencies/ thoughts I see my reflection in the mirror, but I don’t see me. Jeez, I think to myself, I look like I died and came back to life. To be quite honest, that’s how I felt too. My body ached; I hadn’t left my bed all weekend, even to relieve myself properly. My mom, kind as she is, changed my sheets for me, asking carefully if I would roll over so she could grab the side I lay on. This morning she came into ...

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“Levitate” by Ishita Nigam

Submitted to Contest #86

Shanaya caressed her bald scalp for the millionth time. She missed her hazelnut lustrous hair. Chemotherapy had taken away her beauty. Or so she thought.Shanaya’s world had come crashing down ten months back. She was sitting with Dr Singh when he had broken the news to her.She was diagnosed with Stage III stomach cancer. She still had a seventy percent chance of survival though.Such news is always earth-shattering. It was a bit more than that for Shanaya. She had no family history of cancer and her lifestyle had been fine too. She loved cook...

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“Eternal Spring” by PATRICK HARDING

Submitted to Contest #86

He was roused. Dim yellow lights caused his long dormant and overly sensitive eyes to tear up, clouding his vision. He lay there unable to move. He did not where he was or even who he was for at least a full minute. Gradually, his vision cleared and he saw a monitor now above him attached to the surface of a glass bubble that he was entombed in. I am Bill. Bill Hasting. I am an astronaut. It was another full minute before he recalled what the NASA mission was. I am on my way to the Libra constellation. He then remembered that specific...

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“Glimmer of Spring” by Rachel Nelms

Submitted to Contest #86

It had been a dismal winter. Nothing but rain and sleet had been falling down. Only now it had begun to snow. The forecast for the next week was to return back to the sleet and rain. But that wasn’t what was worrying him. Oh no. What was worrying him was the fact she had called in the middle of the night and asked him to meet her at the corner of 5th and Main. Tugging on his old boots with holes in them, he made his way down to the desired location. “I need to tell you something,” she whispered to him, looking into his eyes. How he h...

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“Once Upon A Time” by Maria Blackman

Submitted to Contest #86

Once upon a time, I was an ordinary girl. Well, ordinary in the sense that I woke in the morning, ate and talked and played during the daytime, then slept at night. I was (am), after all, the princess. As others have pointed out, my life is far removed from the ordinary lives of the common people. I like to believe that apart from my inherited wealth and royalty, I was (am, I am!) still an ordinary girl. But there must be some reasoning behind my fame and fortune, otherwise, why do I feature in these tales so often? How these years drag on...

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“A Dream Sequence” by Anomitra Paul

Submitted to Contest #86

A Dream Sequence I lay on the grass, watching the clouds move across the sky above me. I wanted to reach out and touch its silver-blue edges. I tried to move my arms, but they were tied to the platform on which I lay. I had not realized I was bound to the platform until a minute ago. I lay still as the clouds shifted and made way for a scarlet haze; a stifling heat took hold of the air. I looked to my right and thousands of eyes stared back at me. I saw my parents somewhere in the audience. I saw someone else whose presence I could not fat...

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“WE ARE ONE” by Leslie Farrell

Submitted to Contest #86

He was moving. I AM were the first words he heard. He could feel the cold all around him and a shroud covering him head to toe. It began to shrink until it was no longer there. He began to ask himself how long he had been there. He knew only that he had been there longer than he could count. He tried to remember how he came to be here but there were no answers.Finally, he could feel his fingers and began moving them up and down. Tingling sensations emerged. He opened his eyes, moved his mouth and felt the sensation of breathin...

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“Waking Terror” by Pako Dunwhile

Submitted to Contest #86

The lonesome ocean floor is bathed in eternal blackness. It is an unending pressure cooker. A hell where topside life becomes flattened with prejudice. There is no mercy at the bottom abyss. Those who navigate the waves fear the depths for good reason. Those unfortunate to go into the crushing waters without care, becomes part of the whole. An ancient structure takes quiet residence in the deep. One that houses a dormant giant waiting to arise once more. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. There are some...

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“Reflection ” by Casey Brown

Submitted to Contest #86

I look at my reflection in the bathroom mirror. Was I ready? Did I want to do this again? Can my heart bear it? The buzzing of my cellphone on the sink's edge zones me back into my reality. It was Mama. "Hello." I listen as she talks about her day and I reply back when she asks me about my day, but I know she is wanting to ask me if I was still going to come out to the neighborhood's get-together for an old friend's retirement. "I'm still coming Mama." I could hear the joy in her voice, as we end the call. I walk from the bathroom into my ad...

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“Awake!” by Chris Culpepper

Submitted to Contest #86

"Five more minutes," I say as the loud horn rattles me out of the darkness of slumber. My eyes flutter open to the brightness of day. I know it will take some time to get used to this. It always does. Each year, I sleep through the coldest part of the winter. You see, I am a bear, a Grizzly Bear to be specific. Now before you take off running, allow me to introduce myself. My full name is Ursus Arctos Horribilis. The ladies call me "Horrible Arc," and when I first wake up, I gotta tell ya, that description is right on the money. You t...

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“The Magic of Things” by Jharna Katara

Submitted to Contest #86

"Brunooooo, Oh my gosh!", yelled the dog walker as she went running inside the woods trying to get a hold of his leash as it slipped out of her hands. " Bruno, please...please hold on, are you listening?", Ella followed him tracing the extended segment of his red leash. The dog had run deeper into the dark woods, than she could think of and the leash was the only sight of his presence from afar. Just then a blazing book caught her eye. What was it? She looked around to see if anyone was around. No one. She witnessed a big fat golden book fl...

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“Spring voices” by Marc Berry

Submitted to Contest #86

The darkness fell across the land where once beautiful spring flowers bloomed, all that remained were dead vegetation, even the colors of the leaves hadn't changed among the many other strange happenings on this unusual march 20th. Every year it's been the same the equinox, the moment in time and space when the sun positiones directly above the Earth’s equator, usually bringing warmth and light back to the Northern Hemisphere. However, this year was different. In The small town of goos bay, Oregon population 586 Something wasn't right,...

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“Return of Silvanus Tutelary ” by George Georgerfrost@gmail.com

Submitted to Contest #86

Members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) met for an emergency meeting in Glasgow, Scotland after half of Greenland broke off and floated into the North Atlantic Ocean causing one of the greatest environmental shifts ever recorded. Over one hundred eighty nations sent representatives to this crisis counsel meeting with one hundred eighty different points of view presented at the meeting. They argued as the biggest iceberg in history floated freely in the ocean waters. Disaster loomed on t...

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“Down The Wonderland” by Apprentice Of The Art Of Verbal Abuse

Submitted to Contest #86

L Roch Thériault (May 16, 1947 – February 26, 2011) was a Canadian cult leader who led the small religious group the Ant Hill Kids in Burnt River, Ontario, between 1977 and 1989. Thériault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Moïse, founded the doomsday cult in Quebec based on Seventh-day Adventist Church beliefs. Thériault maintained multiple wives and concubines, impregnating all female members as a religious requirement, and fathering 26 childre...

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