Flash Fiction: Plant Dad
© Chris Rosas Vargas
Image by Chris Rosas Vargas
Written by Emma Elizabeth Mathes
Photo Edited by Yanting Chen
Moving with children is rarely easy. They get attached to their surroundings and can make a big stink about the whole affair.
For some thirty-somethings, those “children” are actual children. For others, they are their animals. For me, they are my plants.
Like other parents may have done, I figured it was best to put them in a good mood before the big move. I stuck them on the sidewalk in the late afternoon sun while I loaded a truck.
Plants are fairly independent and mature children, I’ll give them that. But they’d be nothing without my caretaking. And I’m hoping they appreciate that.
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