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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 – 167 stories

Start your story with one character pointing out the first sign of spring to another.

Spring – 106 stories

Write a story where flowers play a central role.

Spring – 278 stories

Stories

“Little Guardian” by Karmissa Ariadne

Submitted to Contest #86

Paisha was a peaceful small village that lied in peaceful quiet just outside of the royal capital city. It was known for its bountiful herbal and floral supplies and production of healing concoctions. Life was simple in Paisha, the people lived in harmony at the foot of the woodland forest, taking only what they needed and fulfilling requests of the royal palace and city populace. Among them, a family of flower merchants resided. Myra had been picking flowers and teaching her younger sister, Ida, about them since early childhood. They were o...

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“Camping” by Katie Smith

Submitted to Contest #86

It was the middle of April and the flowers were just starting to bloom. The weather was getting warmer and the trees were blossoming. Mom and Dad decided to take the kids, Liam and Marek, camping for the first time to enjoy the beautiful spring weather. One nice, sunny weekend, they packed up some clothes and bathing suits. They packed up their tent and air mattress. They filled the cooler with food and ice. They packed a frisbee, some water guns and a deck of cards. Once everything was loaded up, the four of them could barely fit...

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“ALICE IN ROSELAND” by Tina Chakraborty

Submitted to Contest #86

Alice was tying her shoelaces. She doesn't like to wear them as it's bothersome. But her Mom bought it especially for her. Her sister Rose loves this type of shoes. So she needs to wear them too.With a huff, she pushed the door and went out. Ever since the pandemic happened, all of them has nowhere to go. Alice and Rose are taking lessons from home tuition. And her mother's boutique has been shut down. She has been baking cakes and selling them in neighborhood.Alice was walking slowly along the trail. Every day morning, after having breakfas...

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“The Curse Of The Wild” by McCold .

Submitted to Contest #86

CassandraShe said it would be all right. Said that, even Snow White, Rose, and Cindy made it. They got their happily ever after. But they were something special, they had their fairy godmothers. Now I am all alone and the only company I have...is the wild.It all started when I was making dinner for Mother, Father and my brother. Like Cindy, I was the outcast, the orphan. They only took me in because of the money. Times were hard and those stuffy royals forgot all about us commoners so we were all left in poverty. When I go outside to go fetc...

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“Faen’s True Purpose” by April Rawlins

Submitted to Contest #86

In a beautiful glade, deep within the forest of Midenearth, lives a race of wood elves. The wood elves are a graceful people, some very tall about six feet in height, and of fair hair, with long pointed ears. They have keen eye sight and hearing. Their reflexes are swift, and can be soft footed, so as not to alert those they walk near. Elves make wonderful hunters, gatherers, herbalists, and healers. They love all creatures of the forests, and have deep respect for nature. It is their way to use all parts of an animal in the hunt, to provide...

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“Nagarhole” by Aarathi Guru

Submitted to Contest #86

“Is this a prank mom? Well, you got me. Where are you mom? Ari?” I call. No response. I sigh. What was I expecting? To have a person call back in the middle of - “Psst!” a voice said. “Who’s there?” I asked, as I spun around to find the source of the voice. “Down here!” the little voice replied. I tilted my head down, my chin touching my chest to see a - mouse? “Shoo!” I said to the mouse then looked around again. “If you don’t show yourself, i’ll -” “It’s me”, the little voice squeaked, “I’m a mouse!” I stare blankly at the mous...

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“Roll Call in Lockwood Forest” by Alex Frohning

Submitted to Contest #86

Sunlight greeted me as I left my hut. It had been getting progressively warmer over the past few weeks as I made my morning rounds. The snow that had covered Lockwood Forest for months had finally melted. The first flock of birds flew overhead just a few days ago. All signs point to one thing: spring was here… bullocks. Don’t get me wrong, I love spring just as much as the next druid. The warmer weather, plant life returning with all of its color and bloom, the absence of snow. It’s wonderful. However, the first few days of spring al...

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“Little Talks of Nature” by Cecelia Annan

Submitted to Contest #86

Maisie stumbled her way through the woods with a basket clutched tightly in her arms. It was dawn when she had set out from her family’s cottage, and now the sun was just starting a lazy wake up, its rays stretching across the sky. She had heard of a boy in the woods who could communicate with animals, and she needed his help. She found him beneath the large oak like the rumors had said. He wasn’t exactly what she had expected, and she hadn’t expected much. A boy who was covered in dirt and just barely her height wasn’t it. He scowled as she...

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“The Animal Tamer's Forest” by Violet Clary

Submitted to Contest #86

In today's world, most people dismiss odd claims; the glanced sighting of a mysterious creature, or secret sounds, who's whispers no one else could hear, to just brush off their shoulder. However, not everyone shares in that sheltered lot. If when in the distance when a BOOM! you hear within, and dare question what it was... Stella Hart knew exactly what it was. She won't tell you of course, but that BOOM! may have been partially caused by her. She has a slight issue with being... Less than kind to creatures that she should have been kinde...

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“A Sprinkle of Love” by Sona Sethi

Submitted to Contest #86

The incidents that I am about to narrate will probably sound improbable and fantastical and I will not blame you for not believing them, for if they had not happened to me, I would not have believed them myself. I was ten years old when we moved into a new house, a house that was located on a beautiful meadow, far from the grime and dust of the big city. My mother, an acclaimed writer, needed the quiet and solitude for the formation of her next plot and this house was ideal. Actually that is how I lived the first ten years of my life, moving...

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“The Forest Girl” by Marian Reiley

Submitted to Contest #86

Laila had always been able to talk to the creatures in Hazewood. It freaked the people in her village out. Balley Gorm, the name the people called the gathering of stone huts where Laila had been born, was on the edge of Hazewood. They wanted nothing to do with the forest and thought anyone who went there was mad or cursed. Laila spent most of her time there. As soon as she could walk, Laila wandered towards the voices she heard in the forest. "Come and see me!" Some called. "I'm over here!" Howled others. "Where did I hide those acor...

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“Forest Creatures” by Brian Barrott

Submitted to Contest #86

Forest Creatures I’m frustrated looking at an empty sheet of A-4 its white virgin rectangle taunting me to write. Was my life always so inane and predictable? The page's luminosity of unblemished parchment pulls my mind back to a bedsheet blowing during a wonderful August summer school holiday. This mundane occurrence of mother washing, over time, has become a sorely missed distant place and time of simplicity. Within moments, I have sat again on my James Captain Motorcycle in the early seventies. The old maroon machines familiar...

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“The New Queen of the Forest” by Flora Bell

Submitted to Contest #86

"No. No! Go away!" The brunette muttered, picking up her pace through the forest. "I can't hear you! Lalalala!"'Do you think she realises how childish she sounds right now?' A squeaky voice questioned.'Yeah, no. I don't think so.' A deeper voice replied.'I'm finding this hilarious!' Yet another voice snickered. 'Come on, Birdy~ Speak to us!''Reynard!' The first voice quipped. 'Leave her alone! No wonder she's scared of us!'Breaking into a sprint, the woman dodged through the trees. Twigs snagging in her hair and leaves smacking her in the fa...

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“Princess Alena: A wandering locket” by Karthikeya Vengala

Submitted to Contest #86

PRINCESS ALENA: A WANDERING LOCKETIt was very long ago when the king and queen are walking in the sanctuary for feeding animals, they were sentenced by an eternal saint, “the princess will be born dead and evil spirits visit to feast on her”.( with an intense tone)And days passed along but the king was haunted by the prophecy which he heard from the eternal saint as well as king became weak watching the queen bedridden (from the moment...

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“Talking to the Animals” by Valerie Preston

Submitted to Contest #86

The air was cool and as a lot of the trees were only party covered in leaves – the canopy above had spaces where the brightness filtered through. A soft light, gently made its way from top to bottom – bits of dust and tiny insects danced their way down on the sun beam. I leaned back as far as I could without toppling over and looked up. Blue sky filled the spaces that bare branches made and as I slowly watched high above I felt like I was spinning around. Or were the trees spinning? Whatever was happening was making me dizzy with delight and...

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