The gardening gals over at Garden Rant have posted a fun contest Garden Rant. It’s a short fiction, garden writing contest – 99 words or less. Prizes are even involved.
If you choose to participate, leave your entry in their comments. Its fun and easy to do. I invested 20 minuets in this endeavour and learned a lot. It is also fun to see what others wrote.
Here’s my first 99 word fiction:
Nature’s Way, Simplified
Life abounds, all around. As I journey down the garden path, I see holes in the leaves, but butterflies in the trees.
In Nature, one life balances the other; there’s no need to interfere.
The ladybug hungers for the sweet taste of aphids, thwarting the sapping of life from a rose. A bird spies a bug, a cat spies a bird, a fox chomps a cat. Flowers send scent through trumpets of red, ablaze for hummingbirds to spread. A frog feasts on slugs, then croaks with pride. Attracting a mate, to procreate. So it goes, all around, life abounds.
~ Helen Yoest
joey said
Had hoped to pop in bed but now you have my head twirling, wondering about Nature’s Way. Beautifully crafted, indeed life abounds, Helen
fairegarden said
Hi Helen, a thought provoking 99er. Thanks for making us use our noggins!
Frances