Quasar

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Flower, Daughter, Soil, Seed

ShortStory 4,246 words

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"There isn’t a more resilient thing than a small flower. Your great-great-grandmother was a yellow daffodil. Where she was born people called her narcissus. Her many heads blossomed from a loamy opening in the forest on a particularly chill spring day. They rose hungrily, searching for a few precious rays of sunlight."

Historical FantasyDiasporaHistorical Europe

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Second PersonMagical RealismMotherhoodTenderQueer IdentityWarmElegiacLyricalLyrical ProseMemorySurvivalFantasyVoice DrivenCharacter Driven

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