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a flower burned by the sun

Notes:

I wrote this in literally 20 minutes but it was really fun to do.
This is written in a different style than what I normally do, but I really like it.
It's inspired by a prompt I saw by rosewritingprompts on Tumblr

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His peace lily died earlier that day. He'd forgotten to move it away from the window, and the sun killed it.

Sunlight, heat, fire. That power never stopped destroying. It killed plants. It killed people. It killed friendships. It killed second chances. It killed love.

No one wanted to try and heal the damage, so they left. He couldn't blame them.

He'd tried. He'd honestly tried to keep that flower alive. But he'd messed up. Again. Now he was useless. Again. He could only stand and watch death take its victim.

Maybe he should let the fire take him too.

Notes:

Peace lilies are actually plants that get damaged if given direct sunlight, and the name really works here hehe I love looking up random things for fics. Also workshopping everything around a word limit is actually kinda fun, I might have to do it again
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