Story by Willow Croft
Be still, they scraped.
She could hear them.
No, feel them.
Communication pulsing through the plants.
Different stages of their growth cycling into synchronicity.
Scrape, scrape, scrape. Like nails on a chalkboard.
Durthi remembered the science charts from her primary school days.
Roots. Stem. Petal. Pollen. Pistil.
All done up in pastel colours.
Cheery hues that hid their fear. Their sadness. Their pain.
And their rage. Encapsulated in tiny golden grains of pollen.
She felt that, too.
No. She tried to scrape back.
Safe, they answered, unanimously.
Warmth flowed through the root system that encased her.
She saw what they saw.
A million billion human faces bent over them.
The pistils fired.
This week’s spooky-ooky-dooky collaboration is with Willow Croft of willowcroft.blog. Another longtime Fears’erer, blogger, author and pun-lover. Cheers for the spooky-ooky-dooky’s Willow!
Thanks to Warren for the continued $10 Patronage.
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I like this. Clever use of pistil/pistol.
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First time I read it, honestly thought it was a spelling mistake, and was then like ooooooo, clever! Haha!
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Very cool.
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Thank you. 🙂
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You’re welcome!
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This is clever, and cool, and brilliant, and very well constructed. Take a huge bow, Sir. (or a bough, and thereby lies a tale!). Did I mention this is clever?
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Hah, it’s a cracker of a story. Loved it.
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Creepy but good.
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Thanks, Bernadette.
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Just as cool to read forward then backward .. good job
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Thanks! And cool that you wandered in from YoWorld 🙂
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…our other fantasy world(s)! 🙂
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Mmhmmm. Willow wrote us a great story!
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I like your doodles on photos. Words and pictures too. Pixel and vector? No, more a gesture now in a place here becoming figure and ground: contrast and tension mellowed by humor.
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Thanks, Howard. Willow wrote us a fab story!
I do like a bit of vector drawing, but my love of drawing shapes onto pictures will always be my fave kinda doodles.
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CLE-VER! Very well done!
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Cheers, Rae. Willow wrote us a great one.
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Beautiful. Am touched 👏
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Willow wrote us a great tale. 🙂
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Beautiful!
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It is. 🙂
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Great collab! 🙂
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Thanks, Cyranny. 🙂
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Have you heard about any of the research done into the communication of plants? Not only by releasing odors and such, but through “mycorrhiza” (“an internet of fungus”) and such? This post reminded me of that research.
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I vaguely remember some stuff when I was doing a degree in Environmental Sciences. Been a long time though, heh.
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