#springstories

[amlitlover]

Hawthorne’s Buds & Bird Voices

Hawthorne: "BALMY Spring—weeks later than we expected, months later than we longed for her—comes at last to revive the moss on the roof and walls of our old mansion. She peeps brightly into my study window, inviting me to throw it open..." https://americanliterature.com/author/nathaniel-hawthorne/essay/buds-and-bird-voices

[amlitlover]

O. Henry “Springtime a la Carte”

O. Henry: "Sarah was crying over her bill of fare. Think of a New York girl shedding tears on the menu card!" https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/springtime-a-la-carte

[amlitlover]

Maupassant’s “In the Spring”

Maupassant: "With the first day of spring, when the awakening earth puts on its garment of green, and the warm, fragrant air fans our faces and fills our lungs and appears even to penetrate to our hearts, we experience a longing to breathe in the spring." https://americanliterature.com/author/guy-de-maupassant/short-story/in-the-spring

[amlitlover]

Willa Cather, The Garden Lodge

“That the month was May, and the most mild and florescent of all the blue-and-white Mays the middle coast had known in years, but added to their sense of wrong.“ https://americanliterature.com/author/willa-cather/short-story/the-garden-lodge

[dedanaan]

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[amlitlover]

O. Henry’s Springtime a la Carte

"It was a day in March." Never, never begin a story this way when you write one. No opening could possibly be worse. It is unimaginative, flat, dry and likely to consist of mere wind. https://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short-story/springtime-a-la-carte

[jude5]

What IS Spring? I wrote this little book for two of my grandchildren who live in Singapore. (It’s available free for four days on Amazon. ). Like little JUMBLE TUFT in the story they have never experienced ‘Spring.’ In the story everyone is helping to Spring clean ‘Jumble House’ and Jumble Tuft doesn’t understand why everywhere is in such a mess. Wise Owl sends him into the woods to find out more about Spring from the woodland creatures. He learns a lot but still has some questions which Wise Owl helps to answer. All ends happily when Jumble Tuft decides he likes this thing called ‘Spring’ and helps the others with the spring cleaning. Jumble Tuft and all the woodland creatures he meets are handmade at the end of the book there is an opportunity to make one of these characters. Children can also follow the adventures of the JUMBLES on my learning channel. The book has 38 full colour pages. Here’s an excerpt. I hope you like it! The link to my website for children is in my bio together with the link to my author page. #spring #storiesforchildren #springbooks #freebooksforkids #picturebooks #newbooks #naturebooks #freeebooks #ebooksforkids #instaspring #instabooks #theseasons #homemadetoys #newcharacters #springstories #underfives #toddlersofinstagram #toddlers #bedtimestories #booksfortoddlers

[thaddeusoneil]

"Je est un autre" ~ A. Rimbaud. The punk poet eternal surfer of the self speaking for the impossibility of identity. Love Your Other. You yourself are another anyway. #loveyourother #springstories