Sproutlings: A Compendium of Little Fictions

Morgan Bell’s Sproutlings is a mesmerising collection of exquisite peculiarities. Welsh and Cornish mythology. Australian campfire tales. Astral and fantastic. The pertinency of forty-three modern authors is punctuated by bites of botanical fiction from Poe, Lawson, Orwell, Lawrence, Wells, Alcott, and Wilde in this tour de force of tiny stories. CACKLEBERRIES Tongues and Eyes and Teeth by Jenny Blackford Uprooted by Jodie van de Wetering Beside The River Styx by Helen Vivienne Fletcher Tangled Up In Kelp by Magdalena Ball Gorilla Garden by Meryl Dunton Rose The Chosen One by Beattie Alvarez Wicked Weeds by Mark Liston Mors Vita by Lee-Anne Wilson-Smith Encroaching by Aria Peyton Curious Things by Jo Fleur Silence by Edgar Allen Poe NIGHT SHADES Mome Raths by Morgan Bell Bugloss Stems by Ryley Miller Jasmine Rose by Sharon Boyce The Breathing Green by Ashlee Jade The Flowerless Funeral by Gabrielle Clover Honour The Sabbath by Moosey The Lost Art of Transportation by Morgan Bell Leaf Fall by Steve Dillon WATTLE SEEDS Kikuyu Dreaming by D. C. White Shoe Strangling Stew by Mel A. Rowe Cactus by Russell Proctor Mangroves by J. A. Haigh The Thief by Janine G. Stewart Sowing Wild Oats by J. A. Croft The Botanist by William Geyl The Root Cause by Ewa Ramsey Wait-A-While by Catherine Moffat On The Edge of a Plain by Henry Lawson INTERMISSION A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell CREEPERS Snapdragon by D. H. Lawrence Hellmouth by Lyn Godfrey Silver by Aarti Mahajan Jack And The Potting Shed by Morgan Bell The Mason Jar by Linda Hudson Hoagland Eye of the Beholder by Tammy Egan Liars by Sheree Christoffersen Helioanthus Anthracimus by Peter Cook The Flowering Of The Strange Orchid by H. G. Wells ASTRO TURF The Bloom by Pete Sutton Invictus by Sam Ford The Ones That Came Home by M. A. S. Hale Viridian by William Geyl Plant Flesh by Ellen McGeoch We Came In Peace by Steve Herczeg Death Spores by Steve Herczeg Paolo’s Flower by Matthew Meakins BABY PEAS Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde Stuttlebutt’s Munglewort by K. M. Ross The Singing Tree by Morgan Bell The Giving Tree by Bronte Carrigan The Anything Tree by Deborah Kelly Seeds of Eden by Mike Cullen Orchid by Willie Southgate The Thinking Hat by Kathryn White Read more