April

Daily writing prompt

What’s your favorite month of the year? Why?

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After months of gray, the world decides to be brave and bloom anyway. The first brave crocuses push through half-frozen dirt like they’re flipping off winter, and suddenly you remember color exists. Everything smells like possibility—rain on warm pavement, lilacs around the corner, the electric green of new leaves. April is proof that no matter how brutal the winter was, spring always shows up.