Write a short story about someone tending to their garden.

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“How The World Works” by Steve Forbes

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Frank reflected on what a peculiar place The North is. Having decided when he first moved there that he would live in his new home for a year before choosing the site of his garden, he remembered that first spring morning looking out his north-facing kitchen window and the shock he felt as he realized that there was sunshine streaming in on his sleep-puffed face and squinting eyes. The sun doesn’t rise in the north! It rises in the east and sets in the west- that’s the proper order of things, that’s how the world works… but t...

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“Geranium Love” by Nour Ammar

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“Self Therapy.” Those two words have ruled Salma’s life ever since she was a twelve-year-old girl fumbling around her nana’s backyard, and to Salma these two words have always meant gardening. Several months have already passed, but the memories still dance in her head strong and vibrant like the red geraniums she used to plant with her grandma. ‘Uhhh, I have missed you so much,’ Salma sighs gazing a...

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“Planting Trees ” by Michelle Howe

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Planting TreesHer wrinkled hands finger the frail, browning leaves tentatively. She frowns, glancing from a small sheet of instructions, and back to the tree again. It’s dying.She’d had the idea to start a garden a few weeks back and thought a new tree would make a nice addition to the vacant corner of her backyard. She’d read the instructions: dig hole, put tree in hole, fill hole with eighty percent soil and twenty percent compost, then add water. The little tree had been healthy and green, thriving in its little pot from the store. N...

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“everything stays.” by Venessa Holtzer

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Let's go in the garden, She stepped outside, letting the front door shut behind her. Tears streamed down her face as she walked into her yard. She had planned on driving off in anger, but something she saw stopped her. You'll find something waiting, She walked over slowly, her car keys dropping to the ground, forgotten. Right where you left it, It was a small area of flowers, but she had been proud of it. They had been proud of it. Right in...

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“Crocus ” by Eden Marchese

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The man looks down at his thumb, frowning at the blood that blooms from the cut on the tip. He pulls a Band-Aid from his back pocket and takes his time unwrapping it, taking in how his blood slides down the length of his hand and drips onto the dirt. For a moment, he wonders what his blood will do for the garden – hoping that it will do more for them than it does for his body. &nbsp...

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“The Old Woman's Garden” by Todd Linder

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The Old Woman’s GardenThe old woman stood straddling a row of beets both hands massaging her lower back. A sigh escaped the wrinkled mouth as she wondered for at least the second time that day why she continued to plant and inevitably weed more garden than she really needed. Didn’t she have enough to do what with working at the café. The truth was that years as a farm girl and then a farm wife had conditioned her for this response. Besides, growing up on the farm there were better uses of cash money than buying canned food. Anyway, fresh veg...

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“The Flowered Graveyard” by Jodie Atkins

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She love the outdoors; it makes her calm. Especially during her stressful days. She doesn't get up to much, she's been stuck inside for a few months now. She waits patiently from Autumn through to Winter, until it's her favourite month: Spring. As soon as the warm sun touches the grass, she smiles.She opens the back door with white fur stuck to her knees, as the fluffy pooch walks beside her cane. Timidly, she takes her first foot off the step, with her friend following closely by her side. One step, two steps, slowly but surely making her w...

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“Abigail's Rose” by Sophie Garman

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Where did flowers go, after they wilted and dried up? Did their decomposing stems stay there, as if holding onto hope that they weren't actually dead?The sunlight felt strangely chilly against Abigail's face. Her feet in their sneakers connected with the solid earthy ground. Abigail was fascinated by the steady nature of the Earth. It was always there, beneath her feet, when it seemed as though everything else was being yanked out from under her.It was early morning, and the air smelled like wind and rain and those other things that didn't h...

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“Through A Child’s Eyes” by Susannah Otstott

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The sunlight streamed through cotton candy clouds, enveloping every blossoming flower and blooming tree. Streaks of light cast patterns on the gravel as dainty daisies pushed their way towards the sun. The cold, crisp air filled my lungs with sweet breath. I paused, lost in the depths of my mind. Somewhere within, voices were shouting, "Do this, do that. Be here, be there. What are you doing? You need to stay with it!" They shadowed my mind with gray, gloomy thoughts while my head felt like it was lost in a haze. On the table taunting me was...

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“Zucchini Forever” by Steve Garay

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Zucchini Forever How many ways can you cook zucchini? Growing up my sister and I where slave labor on our families mini farm. My mom grew up in Alabama on a farm of several hundred acres. I believe she wanted to make our two and a half acres into a mirror image of the old home place. Forty to fifty chickens, two steers, a couple of milk cows, six pigs, and at one time, one hundred and fifty rabbits. The chickens l...

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“Cherishing Her Green Thumbs” by Natalie Alexis

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My mother always had an eye for plants. We called her green thumbs. My father cleared out an area so that she could have her garden, but I never understood why my mother always tended to her garden. No matter what the weather was like outside, rain, heat, and snow. She tended to her garden like it was her own. Growing up my mother went out to tend to the garden each day. There were all kinds of plants and flowers. Orchids, Rosemary, Thyme, Sunflowers, Roses, Tulips, and many more. She attended to every plant sale that the market held. Findin...

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“Garden of mind” by Sandra Popescu

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Years ago, I felt a tight grip on my arm; sweaty silk fingers tried to bury themselves into my body, as if to hide from the horror that was revealing only parts of the house that we used to call home, now painted in sparks of violent red and blinding yellow. The little hand loosened and I heard an aching sound as the ground stormed up a sandy cloud. Without realising, my knees were bleeding from the rocky street and underneath this, there were my uncontrollable tears. How did it come to this?I still remember that day so vividly, the skies th...

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“Alive In The Garden” by Giorgie Jones

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It was five p.m. on a lovely summers day in England. While the sun peeped down through the trees Nancy was tending to her garden. It was not anything special but for her she found it a way to escape the rat race. However, on this particular weekend what was once an ordinary day in the garden, turned into something far more surprising and mystical than normal.Our story begins while Nancy was talking to herself. You know, like when you get lost amongst your thoughts and find yourself saying them aloud. Well this was one of those moments....

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“While I Tend My Garden” by Michaella Hynes

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It had been a long winter, that’s end could not have come soon enough. With the sun shining brightly in the sky people were once again stepping outside their doors after hibernating for the past several months. The exchanged heavy jackets for light raincoats and toques for baseball caps. No more did people need to wake up a little earlier before work to heat up the car and scrape off the ice-covered windows. Spring was finally here! &nb...

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“A Small Pond Lies Behind my Garden” by Liam H

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A small pond lies behind my garden. I like to use it to water my plants. There's no hose, no piping, no nothing to bring the water from the pond to the plant's eager roots. I use a watermelon-colored watering can that's green from the middle down and red with black dots from the middle up.The summer air swirls with smells of lilac and jasmine and I can see a summer storm trembling over the mountains to the west. Two stray cats swiftly prance across my back fence.This is how I keep that deep-down trembling feeling at ease. You know, that feel...

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Write a short story about someone tending to their garden.

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✍️ 77 stories

“How The World Works” by Steve Forbes

“Geranium Love” by Nour Ammar

“Planting Trees ” by Michelle Howe

“everything stays.” by Venessa Holtzer

“Crocus ” by Eden Marchese

“The Old Woman's Garden” by Todd Linder

“The Flowered Graveyard” by Jodie Atkins

“Abigail's Rose” by Sophie Garman

“Through A Child’s Eyes” by Susannah Otstott

“Zucchini Forever” by Steve Garay

“Cherishing Her Green Thumbs” by Natalie Alexis

“Garden of mind” by Sandra Popescu

“Alive In The Garden” by Giorgie Jones

“While I Tend My Garden” by Michaella Hynes

“A Small Pond Lies Behind my Garden” by Liam H

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