Nature Flash Fiction – Page 2 – TINY SEED LITERARY JOURNAL

Fragments gathering

22 Aug 202017 Aug 2020

We waited for the bats to emerge from the cave below. Stephanie and I had backpacked all over that summer, out into nearby mountains and mesas—the Franklins, Sacramentos, Black Range…

Tableau

21 Aug 202017 Aug 2020

The aurochs of Lascaux cave or the ghosts of Hiroshima or the figures of Basquiat are records on soot greased walls, and likewise the poems I have no choice but…

Honey

14 Aug 202012 Aug 2020

I linger among the bees flying in and out of the numerous hives lining the side yard by the alley. It’s a sunny late afternoon and each bee wears a…

The Honeybee Scout

12 Aug 202010 Aug 2020

The Honeybee Scout The honeybee colony was in great danger. Their supply of sweet nectar and pollen had fallen dangerously low and if the Honeybee Scouts couldn’t find new flower…

Review of Margaret Atwood’s New Release: The Dream Tree

8 Aug 20204 Aug 2020

______It’s taken me nearly a year to process all of the new releases from 2114, when they opened the vault at The Future Library project in Oslo. They spent the…

Nature Flash Fiction

The Gecko

22 Jul 202014 Jul 2020

Flash Fiction by Anne McMillan Born in Minnesota, Anne McMillan is a writer, opera singer, mountain hiker and nature lover living in Madrid, Spain. She received the 2018 Fulton…

Sins of the Bees – a novel excerpt

4 Jul 202026 Jun 2020

SINS OF THE BEES – a novel excerpt by Annie Lampman (Release Date: September 1, 2020 from Pegasus Books/Simon & Schuster) Silva finally found the road to McGregor’s. Dust rose…

Blueberry Barrens

3 Jul 202014 Jul 2020

We brought the bees to the blueberry barrens of Cherryfield, Maine in May 1999. When the bees pollinate the blueberry flowers, the fruit crop is increased by around 300% compared…

When the Longest Route is the Fastest

20 May 202014 May 2020

Perched silent and spellbound on the sofa by the window, I watch you deconstruct your idea of the bird, characteristic by characteristic. Once separated, you place these details around the…

High Lights

15 May 20207 May 2020

We swam into the Caribbean, escaping the noise. Azraq’s panicked nails drew blood on my chest. Lest some creature’s bloodlust be ignited, I pivoted, following the flashing lighthouse. Inside celestial…

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Valhalla

28 Apr 202014 Apr 2020

The elm is its own planet. It is something to be seen from far away. The trees glory in broken growth and bending plié. They blow bony witches’ kisses to…

Riverbank

17 Apr 202024 Mar 2020

There was a day when my pen alone captured an exceptionally visual experience and I realised then that a pen could offer as profound a memory as any photograph. I…

Awāwa Nani (Beautiful Valley)

9 Apr 20206 Mar 2020

“Welina mai i ko mākou awāwa,” which means welcome to our valley, seems to ring faintly on the wind. The ancients call to me in this place on a cold…

Thingvellir, Iceland

20 Mar 20206 Mar 2020

Walk through these broken skins of Earth. You will see the world tearing apart. You feel like you might tear along with it. Was that the groans of a ruptured…

The Night Guide

14 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

“Is she a furrier? “The ethno-entomologist whispered to me. We listened to an Australian’s plan for stemming the opossum population through the fashion industry. I stifled laughter and enjoyed this…

44.8 x 93.4

12 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

I have sat here on the bluff for ten thousand years, watching. I arrived with the April floods on what used to be a curve in the glacially-swollen Minnesota River,…

Lakeside

10 Feb 20206 Feb 2020

Here, the flagrant moon. Spangles of light embellish nocturnal antics on the water's brim. A rush of blue cool, then fireflies, fancy matings. Softly, a riot of resonance. -Janis Butler…

Encampment

8 Feb 202025 Jan 2020

Northern lights, drunken ranks of Chernobyl ephemera, waver pink and green high above the boreal shield. In November an odd wind blows sharp from the south, kicking skiffs of snow…

The Disappearing Pine-Woods Sparrow in York County, SC

6 Feb 202012 Jan 2020

Streaks down your nape and over your back in black and grey, a stripe over your eye in rufous brown. If your markings were mine, how exquisitely they would wrap…

Sycamore Helicopter Pods Remind Me to Call Home

4 Feb 202010 Jan 2020

Before I forget:sycamore seed pods spin tight circles after you throw husks above your head and I know this because my grandmother loved how trees might grow destined for longer…

The Worm

2 Feb 202021 Jan 2020

When the ape arrives in the land and becomes a farmer, he pulls down trees and plucks out rocks to set up his homestead. Immediately, the Worm plagues him. Armyworms…

Southern Snow

28 Jan 202021 Jan 2020

His daughter is too young to remember the last time the sky fell. From this hill on Highland golf course they can see Birmingham’s abandoned downtown towers and hear the…

in that way we are the same

18 Jan 202019 Jan 2020

Black bird with red wings yellow-tipped feathers like a funny knit hat with a golden bell. He breathes in the October morning, breathes out his song. The notes catch on…