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Fiction

December 4, 2023

Plant XIV: To Be One of The Lights (A Plant Dialogue)

Scene: Linda has brought Plant to a local restaurant table with a good view of the room. She explained to the hostess that she just bought Plant and didn’t want to leave her live purchase out in the cold car. Plant is on the table with a deep green plastic purchase bag pulled down around... Read More

Fiction

November 9, 2023

Plant XIII: Water, Water Everywhere (A Plant Dialogue)

(Scene: Linda pulls the red wagon containing Plant along a major street. She stops to pick up the litter. Plant views each trash deposit into the wagon with increasing distaste.) Plant: Yuck. My bottom leaves keep getting dirtier from the litter you’re throwing in my wagon. I am sharing my vehicular transportation with trash while... Read More

Fiction

October 10, 2023

Plant XII: Walk This Way (A Plant Dialogue)

(Scene: For their daily outing, Linda pulls the sentient Plant inside the red wagon on the leaf-shaded sidewalk along West Main Street. In the wagon, two pots of dirt closely line up behind Plant like a tail extending backward.) Plant: You spend so much time walking. Can you put a leaf on what you like... Read More

Fiction

September 19, 2023

Plant XI: Kindness Matters (A Plant Dialogue)

Scene: Chatting easily, Linda is hauling a happy Plant out for a wagon ride. The distant drone of an ambulance puts Linda in a certain frame of mind. Plant: What’s your favorite human character trait? Linda: What do you mean, Plant? I don’t have a favorite — I just have character traits. I work at... Read More

Fiction

August 10, 2023

Plant X: Broom Therapy

(Scene: Plant and Linda converse while Linda sweeps her sun-dappled kitchen floor.) Plant (curiously): What are you doing? Linda (tolerantly): Cleaning a living space helps people stay healthy. P: And organized. Why are you sweeping around those towers of manufactured goods rising up from the floor like staggering geometric islands? L: The stacks of books,... Read More

Fiction

July 11, 2023

Plant IX: Right to Be Gone

(Scene: Linda returns home after being gone for a week. Plant anxiously awaits her arrival.) Plant: …Where have you been?? You were gone. I felt abandoned. Linda (dropping her suitcases at the door): I’ve missed you, but I’ve been where I needed to be. P (querulously): You didn’t even say goodbye. L (hanging up her... Read More

Fiction

June 7, 2023

Plant VIII: Father Figure

(Scene: Linda is hauling Plant, swaddled in blankets in a child’s red wagon, on a scenic tour around the block.) Linda: Plant, you’re heavy enough that hauling you up this hill in this wagon is running me subterranean. Plant (leaves quivering like a dog leg vibrating ecstatically): Oh, joy; so warm is the sunshine. L... Read More

Fiction

May 5, 2023

Plant VII: Motherlode

(Scene: Plant and Linda are sitting in morning sunlight on Linda’s back porch. In a birdhouse, a bird is feeding its young.) Plant: What is it like to have a mother? Linda: You never give me any warning about when you’re going to start talking. You just start. P: Does that bother you? L: You... Read More

Fiction

April 7, 2023

Plant VI: Not Dead to the World

(Scene: Plant and Linda are talking in the late morning. Linda is still struggling conceptually with conversing with a sentient plant.) Plant (cheerily): Good morning. You are up later than usual. Linda (yawning): I was dead to the world. P: My cousin plant died and came back as a carnation. L:… What? P: Cuz was... Read More

Fiction

March 10, 2023

Plant V: Kermit Would Approve

(Scene: Plant and Linda are sitting in Linda’s kitchen in the morning sunlight.) Plant: Top of the mornin’ to you. Linda: … Oh, nuts. It’s you again. P: Here you come again with that inquiring mind. I so look forward to these conversations … after you wake up. L: You can run but you can’t... Read More

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