Crunch: The Sunflower
Writing Exercise #36
This exercise was inspired by a picture of a sunflower. I guess my mind is pretty messed up!
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Crunch: Write about a sunflower
I’m afraid of my sunflowers.
There’s not much time to tell you so I am writing this as quickly as I can.
I bought them eight months ago from an ordinary looking vendor at the market. She was an old crone, she wasn’t yelling or advertising, just sitting there quietly. I noticed and went up to her. She sells “Special Sunflowers” she said. What’s not to like about that?
“What makes them special?”
She smiled mischievously, “They are always in bloom!”
Wow! I’ve tried growing sunflowers before and they last a precious few weeks before they wither and die at the end of summer. I was intrigued. “How do you manage that?”
“Like I said, they are special!” She said.
I bought a packet of six seeds.
I planted them in a row outside my house. They grew very much like ordinary sunflowers, but they were hardy and uninteresting to wildlife. How lucky I was!
And on a sunny summer day, they bloomed! Great big golden flowers.
And then they did something interesting—at night, on a full moon, the bloom turned white. There was a magical energy about them. The ground around them started turning brown, and they grew taller.
There was a lunar eclipse, and the bloom turned red. I watched the eclipse, and the flowers, with equal awe and mystery. I found animals dead at the base of the flowers.
Now, it’s a solar eclipse. The sun is disappearing. The flowers are turning black.
Something is coming.
(250 words )
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That picture of the sunflower is menacing. As if a great evil is growing and cannot be stopped.
I like sunflowers. I liked this story. I'm not sure if I like your sunflowers though, seem abit scary.
This story pairs well with Post Malone's "Sunflower."
Needless to say, I keep her in check
She was a bad-bad, nevertheless
Callin' it quits now, baby, I'm a wreck
Crash at my place, baby, you're a wreck