Set your story at a park during a spring festival.

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“ENCHANTED PARK” by Sivaram Govindaraj

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It was time of the Spring Festival. The park named Flowerland had flowers in abundance. The beauty of the flowers and their smell captivated people. Before it was opened to the public the Fairy Godmother announced “I’m making this Flowerland into an Enchanted one where people who come alive can repent.” The first to answer came up and said “I’m Lady Constance Chatterley. All must’ve heard of me.” The second who came said “I’m Mellors who was the game keeper in the Chatterley estate. I was told I had also to repent.” Connie said “The flowers...

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“Blindfold of flowers (and thorns)” by Emma Harris

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It's been about a month. We've been married for a month and ..... she still hates me. She's amazing. She's intelligent, talented, gorgeous, and perfect! But ..... she hates me. She absolutely hates me. We've known each other for at least four or five months now and she still doesn't even want to talk to me. We even sleep in the same bed but she won't even acknowledge my presence. She agreed to come with me to the annual Spring Festival that the city I was raised in has every year. It's huge, and it's the perfect time to tell her how I f...

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“Spring At The Compound” by Chris Wagner

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Spring Harvest Festival had arrived at The Park again, the watered down Easter-without-religion distraction they established to keep the peasants of The Compound docile. I paid no attention to their bright banners, light soulless jazz, or the pastel clothing of the milling throng. My attention focused on the brass plaque they had beside the Parrott guns in the Civil War display, far from the central plaza. The Mayor wouldn't advertise secret tunnels out of The Compound on a map like this, of course, but a trained eye could see ce...

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“Fantalekoh” by Roth Sassin (inactive)

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I perch on one of the branches of a tree, and spy on the people who are preparing for the festival. It is in the field in the park, and on the edges of the field, there is a forest. That's where I am now. The festival will celebrate many of our gods, but the most important will be Ceraura and Cedsin, siblings and the God and Goddess of spring. The second most important is their father, Tuagi the God of Seasons. Some of the other gods we will celebrate are Phuzenta, Goddess of strength, Azotz, God of the Sun, and many more. They put up th...

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“Spring-it-on / A Beltane festival of fate. #1” by Isabelle Jardim

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Spring-it-on! A Beltane festivals if fate: Everything was set, long table after long table draped in cream coloured table cloths, knitted in the spring festival or Sabbath as the local wise folk called it Beltane colours. Orange, reds and pinks laid along the tables as place mats with plates and cutlery gently resting atop them. Four tall trees had been stripped of their branches and leaves; sanded and oiled prepared as may polls for the blessed day. One towards each corner of the open field not far from the town of Salem in Massachus...

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“An Attempted Festival Date” by RIC .

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“You know I wouldn’t mind ONE DAY without SOMEONE trying to RUIN EVERYTHING!” Raquel shouted as a reptilian creature crashed into a stall. It was spring. The city was having a spring festival, as most places do. But whenever the city does something there is always some monster or some evil McEvil trying to destroy it. Today, as it seemed, was no exception. The two girls stood by as people began to scramble out of the park, or at least ...

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“Spring Fair” by Christian Hinrichsen

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Spring Fair Jordero, Spring Festival Bards are dancing in the street with other street performers. They are celebrating the Spring Fair for the agricultural deity Mother Gaia. The festival celebrates the new season of agricultural goods and commerce. Traveling the back-roads today is Merrill and his recent newlywed wife Asa. The two are dressed in their best clothes as they shake hands and exchange hugs with the good people of Jordero In the distance Jerrin exchanges arrows with his druid girlfriend Kayla Long. The two practice their ar...

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“The Other Side” by Kinley Kripke

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My head bursts out of the cold blue ocean water, the chilly spring air cooling my head, my long golden hair hanging in wet locks around my face. Everyone is getting ready for the spring festival. It's my favorite time of the year. Or, it was. Every year, our small town of Garden Hills on the coast of California has an annual spring festival. Lights, dancing, and bonfires take place in the central park and the beach, waves crashing against the shore, wanting to join the party. All the locals go. "April!" Aunt Cathy waves from the beach, her...

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“Lost” by Joe Swanson

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“Where is everybody?” “What do you mean?” “You are here, sitting in this booth, I can only assume there is a reason. The sign on the road says the Spring Fling was to take place here. The here, being designated by an arrow pointing in this direction. Did I miss something? Wrong day, time, city? “ “No, this is the right place. What were you expecting?” “I guess I was expecting there to be people, cars, noise, music, even clowns as they seem to be everywhere these days. But look, nothing, nada, grass, and an empty...

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“Tears Among Tulips” by Cynthia Brennan

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Tears Among Tulips By Cynthia Brennan “I cheated.” Greg said as they walked among the brightly colored flowers. Valerie wasn’t sure she had heard him correctly. She turned to look at him and asked him what he had said. “I said I cheated.” He repeated, looking desperately sad. Still unsure what he could be referring to, she steered them toward a park bench that had just become free. She didn’t want to believe that what he had said could mean what she was terrified it did....

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“The Man” by 𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓸𝓷

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The heavy air of a spring morning hung down with a sigh. Today was the day all the villagers celebrated spring at the Spring Festival in the park. I sighed along with the wind, and danced with the flowers. It was all very nice in the woods, but others thought a witch lived there. But they were wrong. Someone did live in the woods, but they were far from a witch. In fact, she had saved my mother from a deadly fever that was going around, and since then, we were friends, and so were our parents. The old pine trees that had lived in the fores...

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“"What's A-hole In Chinese?"” by Lennox Ducksworth

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TW: drowning Bright was the word for it. All around Malcolm Chidike, the entire town of Newfield was in a red hue, like the earth itself was heating up with fire. In reality, it was just the lantern lights and droves of fireworks blasting in the night sky of the spring festival. He stared down at the armies of people, some in robes and masks, others in costumes parading all over the city. It almost made him forget about everything that happened just last year. From the Solar Flare to the appearance of superhumans, and to the rise of the firs...

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“The Flower Booth ” by Cheryl Lim

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"Hey, grandma. Could you tell me the story of how you and grandpa met?"I turned to look at Marco, my precious gem of a grandson and smiled."Are you not tired of hearing the story?" I chided him in jest, but he merely grinned and shook his head, his mop of unruly curls bouncing as he did. His mannerisms were so similar to those of Edward that I couldn't help the sigh that escaped my lips. Almost immediately, his face fell."Sorry, grandma," He murmured, looking away from me. “It’s probably a bad idea huh?”"Oh sugar, nothing you do can ever mak...

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“WELCOME SPRING” by Mara Masolini

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WELCOME SPRING It was the first day of Spring and in the large park of the small town a great party had place, the party to welcome Spring. The park was magnificent, even Strunz was a small town, it had a wide green park where, together pines and cypresses , there were also cherry trees, pear trees, peach trees, apricots trees, almond trees. All these trees were now just in bloom, or their flowers were about to bloom at any moment. The flowering foliage of the trees ,which looked like&...

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“best friend, first love, both lost” by Carole Cobos

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Limp weeds crushed under rain boots. Chubby hands intertwined. Bright smiles. Rosy cheeks and noses. Squeals of laughter filling the air. That was the earlier memory of the Spring Festival he could recall. It was rainy. And that would be enough of an excuse for the vendors and money makers to ask for a ‘rain date’. But, never once, had Tailes delayed their Spring Festival, and being superstitious people by nature they refused to be the ones to start a trend of delayed events. In the muggy weather. The air was warm and h...

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Set your story at a park during a spring festival.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 82 stories

“ENCHANTED PARK” by Sivaram Govindaraj

“Blindfold of flowers (and thorns)” by Emma Harris

“Spring At The Compound” by Chris Wagner

“Fantalekoh” by Roth Sassin (inactive)

“Spring-it-on / A Beltane festival of fate. #1” by Isabelle Jardim

“An Attempted Festival Date” by RIC .

“Spring Fair” by Christian Hinrichsen

“The Other Side” by Kinley Kripke

“Lost” by Joe Swanson

“Tears Among Tulips” by Cynthia Brennan

“The Man” by 𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓸𝓷

“"What's A-hole In Chinese?"” by Lennox Ducksworth

“The Flower Booth ” by Cheryl Lim

“WELCOME SPRING” by Mara Masolini

“best friend, first love, both lost” by Carole Cobos

🌟 Similar prompts

Write about a character coming out of a long hibernation (either literal or metaphorical).

Write a fairy tale about someone who can communicate with woodland creatures.

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

Write a story where flowers play a central role.

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