Write about a character sowing seeds for the future (literally or figuratively).

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“Unwarranted Exchange” by Rachel Funk

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The car ride was much longer than she had initially anticipated. Avery had known it would drag on, seeing as the morose driver didn’t seem like the chatty type. She also knew there was a lengthy distance between the orphanage and her newest foster home, if she could call it that; place of employment seemed more realistic. This family had no claim on her other than her name on the payroll. As she propped her face against her hand, she couldn’t help but wonder what they would be like. Sister Bethany wasn’t all t...

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“A Face in a Room” by L.J Sunwing

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Marlo makes his way into the auditorium, pulling his hat down and glasses over his face to avoid being noticed. Being famous tended to stunt the normal aspects of his life that he used to enjoy. It had also caused him great anxiety but he had managed to fair well between some therapy and medication. This book made him want to know who wrote it, to him it was something on the level of a great author even if the general public did not see it that way. The young actor looks down at the paperback copy he has in his hands of a book that reads H...

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“Enlightenment” by Sue Russell

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I started to wipe my sweaty palms down my silk white pants, the ones that matched the black and white checked jacket forgotten in my closet and stopped before I left a permanent stain. Instead, I raised my head and gazed at the crowd of hostile expressions waiting for me to explain why the Board allowed high school teachers to include racial equity lessons in history class. Other board members shifted in their chairs as I rose to speak. Even though we lived in a progressive, suburban school district, the loudest protests arose from middle c...

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“Forest in the desert ” by Rainey Pigott

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The sun beat down on the scorched earth. The landscape was sparse, except for the occasional skeletal shrubs, scattered pieces of abandoned machinery, and bones. The faint but insistent beeping of his metal detector was maddening but was preferred to the anxiety inducing high pitched shrieks it made when it detected something. It could just be a piece of scrap from a long dead machine, or it could be a live bomb. He avoided all of them. He had lost track of how many days he had been patrolling the desert. It was becoming more difficult to te...

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“Leaving A Legacy” by Melinda Madrigal

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What does sowing seeds for the future mean? I never understood what that meant until I looked it up. it means to do something that ensures a certain outcome in the future. To me it also means leaving a legacy for future generations and that's what I want to leave behind. I want to leave a piece of me, a piece of my family, a piece of history for future generations not only in my family, but for other families can know all about the times I live in and to know the men and women who shaped these times. My grandparents you can say sow t...

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“Parental Gardening” by Tasha Tolson

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Alex The quiet neighborhood was asleep. Well, mostly asleep. One house, slightly different from the rest, had been awoken with a start as the police brought Alex home for the fourth time this year. Breaking and entering had continued to get the small, brown haired teen in trouble. Owen, the father of the family, ushered his unruly son into the house. Standing a couple inches taller than Alex and with a wider frame, Owen seemed to hover over Alex. He clamped his heavy hand onto the back of Alex’s thin neck and let the weight of it rest heavy ...

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“The seed of value” by Mike Siver

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The seed of Value One day I asked my mom and dad where I got my name. They explained that my name came from a great-great-grandfather who came to the US from Europe and settled in our state and worked very hard. Before he died, he built a large timber company to help other people build homes and have a job if they wanted a job, something he never had as a young man growing up in the country he came from. Mon and Dad went on to explain that their great-great-great-grandfather had a lot of rules to live by but the one rule he said was the mos...

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“You will disappoint your mother ” by B A S

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I felt that glory should enter through the hallways of ether — the same hallways I imagined God used to listen to our pain. I felt mine should have been heard by now and the alarm caused by my pain should have been rushed through whatever bureaucracy they had over there. I thought I had earned glory or more importantly; freedom from the shackles of the musts of this world. I was 20 at the time and had all the energy in the world and it was being vortexed into a cycle of self realization and self disappointment. I was trying to grow but I had...

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Write about a character sowing seeds for the future (literally or figuratively).

Submissions are closed

✍️ 38 stories

“Unwarranted Exchange” by Rachel Funk

“A Face in a Room” by L.J Sunwing

“Enlightenment” by Sue Russell

“Forest in the desert ” by Rainey Pigott

“Leaving A Legacy” by Melinda Madrigal

“Parental Gardening” by Tasha Tolson

“The seed of value” by Mike Siver

“You will disappoint your mother ” by B A S

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Start your story with the words: “Grow up.”

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