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

Posted in Spring on Oct 26, 2022

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“Highlights on the Wild Berries” by Alice Claude

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It always seems like sweet honey is lightly intertwining one’s eyelashes when they finally wake up from a long, long slumber. It stretches lazily into golden strands as we blink our eyes, attempting to have them open fully. One, two, three slow movements of heavy eyelids is usually what it takes, on average. And then, like an oyster with a pearl inside, they slowly open to greet morning. I see golden rays of the sun streaming inside the den. Birds sing their regular son...

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“Cold Shiver” by Heather Ann Martinez

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TW: murder Cold Shiver By Heather Ann Martinez Becky’s Diner was the only place to grab food for more than twenty miles along Route 55. Linus Stillman had been frequenting Becky’s for the majority of the past twenty-five years. It was where he met his wife. It was where he met his birth brother and birth father. It was where he went to when he lost his sales job, when he picked up another and where he felt most at home spring through autumn. Every November, he disappeared from his daily routines. He would emerge the last...

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“Metamorphosis” by Amy Jayne Conley

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Trigger warning: eating disorder No-one had seen her for months. Just over a full year. It had been spring when she’d suffered, and then she’d gone away. Disappearing was easy. The global pandemic had forced everyone inside. When the world had come back out, she hadn’t. She’d remained behind closed doors, living silently, quietly, like a shadow. She’d worked on herself, on her surroundings, on her body, her mind, her soul. She’d healed herself, her trauma, her wounds. She was a better person for it… but no-one knew about it. Rosie had been f...

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“Late Spring” by ASHISH DHONGDE

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Late Spring Today she bought Tulips for her husband. It was sheer luck that the Ferns and Petals in the Basant Lok market had some. Tulips grow in just a couple of states of India – Himachal Pradesh and Kashmir. They cost five times as much as roses and have a limited demand compared to the more familiar jasmine and marigolds. They are almost always found in a few neighborhoods in the top cities. Usually whatever ends up in the markets are stems imported from Europe. Any available stock was picked up by mid-morning by the love-struc...

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“An Unexpected Encounter” by Holly Cook

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Sunbeams streamed through the window, a subtle breeze with displaying hints of sweet onion and sounds of song birds returning back home after a long, brutally chilling Pennsylvania Winter. Olivia rubbed her eyes awake as she stretched, waking her sleepy muscles out of stupor. Another glorious day to be alive, she thought to herself. Melody, her calico cat sprawled in a similar stretch, letting out a long yawn with claws fully extended. “Well, good morning there, Melody!” Olivia sang. Melody replied in a high trilling sound, now alert and r...

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“13 Flags” by Rachel Campbell

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What happens when a narcissist and a co-dependent form a relationship? Fireworks in the beginning and heartache in the end. It’s a match made in hell that should never have the chance to flourish. Regret forms the basis of my story, or self-imposed hibernation on love, that began in 2015. I saw his picture on a dating site and it drew me in like a magnet. No matter how many other profiles that I looked at, I kept returning to his. I had to get to know this man. I messaged him several times over several months before he ever responded to me...

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“Chained ” by Ashley Marie

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The diamond sparkles on my neck, reminding me of the day we consummated our relationship. We sat underneath the veil of night, atop a domed hill blanketed in grass and soot, sealed away from the obligations of the outside world. Beneath us, the city rumbled to life, but out there, under the influence of natural nothingness, urgency had ceased to exist. I was content to sit in agreeable stillness, to watch the blue moon waltz behind the clouds, but you had other plans.You stared into my lovestruck eyes and reflected on the last six months of ...

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“To Rise” by Danny Fisher

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Springtime. The rising sun illuminated the dank space of the cave, and the bear stirred for the first time in moons. Knowing that now was the time to move again, he strolled out of his humble abode and began doing what he does best - looking for food. He spent a few minutes nibbling on fresh flowers and foliage, and then made his way to the river. While vegetation was delicious, the long hibernation had left him nearly starved; it was time for some real food. Fish. Delicious fish, a delicacy among grizzlie...

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“Springtime” by Nancy Mcatavey

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Springtime April: The calendar says spring. But the Boston weatherman has the true story: rain, sleet and even some, yes... snow across the higher elevations. I know how the calendar lies. I’ve learned a few things about spring weather during my thirty -eight years of gardening. Bean seeds that rotted in the drenched soil after the Mother’s Day Flood. Tomato and pepper seedlings blackened overnight by April’s icy fingers. So I practice patience and spend drizzly afternoons snuggled up on the sofa r...

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“Overslept Hibernation” by Nolan Pieper

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Deep in the heart of San Francisco, an alarm clock is echoing throughout the small confines of a fourth-floor apartment. A man, abruptly awoken from his glazed-over stupor, stumbles about in frantic disarray. Clothes, trash, and ort are littered across every dimension of the apartment; creating a jungle of garbage where the vines are unwashed tube socks and the humid, tropical climate is from the stench of leftover food scraps and trash. The man is late for his first day back at work and desperately trying to find any clean article of ...

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“It's Spring” by Babette Gilles

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Two friends perched on a sun-warmed rock beside a babbling brook. One was a toad, his coarse, olive skin enjoying the new warmth of the sun. The other was a cricket, anxious to search for reemerging bugs but obliged to sit by his friend. A light breeze nearly tipped over the cricket, so he huddled nearer to the frog to be protected against the soft winds that sent the leaves singing. Also to stay out of view of mama birds desperate to feed their chirping children. Normally the cricket submerged himself i...

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“Freedom” by Viola Bennett

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It was a moment Eris thought she’d never be able to experience again, but she was determined. The sun blazed in the sky, but the grass felt cold as it curled beneath her toes. She felt the heaviness of the blood pumping hard through the legs she had barely used for three years. She leaned her body weight on the crutches her fingers desperately clasped around, and gently pushed herself forward. Each wobbly step only moved her an inch, but she knew that an inch forward was better than staying still. “It’s been so long since I’ve felt the sun...

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“The hidden talent ” by Canaan Newman

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The Hidden Talent He had been unseen, unnoticed, and unheard. No one ever recognized him because he was just a bystander, trying to fit in. He was always just there but no one really cared. Just another regular. He was done being so regular though, he wanted to stand out, be seen. Rico went to a school of over 3000 students, there were so many cliques and settings he wasn’t cool enough for. Rico was gifted though, he was an exceptional swimmer but no one cared because he wouldn’t talk to any until it all changed. Rico was wal...

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“A Shot at Hope” by Sam Harvey

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I sat there jiggling my leg up and down as I looked around at the first building I had been inside in a year. Literally a year, I realized. A year ago to this day, I had an important meeting that was canceled because their offices were shut down due to COVID-19. March 16. The day my life ended. Not really, a bit of an author’s exaggeration, I guess you could call it. My life really ended, or at least the life I once knew back in 2017 when I got sick. I got a cold, and I never really recovered. My ability to simply exist became a chore. I wou...

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“A Flower's Request ” by Pamela Kalidasan

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Two things mortal beings have in common- life and sleep. And if you really dig deep into the concept, whether it's spiritual or philosophical The origin is the same start to finish. It's an endless cycle, a circle that can't stop time and I bloom within it so does the rest of the living. It takes years in the making, but nobody really notices. I don't have eyes, hands, or legs like rabbits or wolves, neither can I move like the earthworm or birds, instead I wake up slowly climbing from the ground which the sleeping fertilizes. Here...

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

Submissions are closed

✍️ 158 stories

“Highlights on the Wild Berries” by Alice Claude

“Cold Shiver” by Heather Ann Martinez

“Metamorphosis” by Amy Jayne Conley

“Late Spring” by ASHISH DHONGDE

“An Unexpected Encounter” by Holly Cook

“13 Flags” by Rachel Campbell

“Chained ” by Ashley Marie

“To Rise” by Danny Fisher

“Springtime” by Nancy Mcatavey

“Overslept Hibernation” by Nolan Pieper

“It's Spring” by Babette Gilles

“Freedom” by Viola Bennett

“The hidden talent ” by Canaan Newman

“A Shot at Hope” by Sam Harvey

“A Flower's Request ” by Pamela Kalidasan

🌟 Similar prompts

Set your story at a park during a spring festival.

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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