Plant Fiction

In the heart of New York City, hidden in the back room of an old Laundromat, are nine rare and valuable plants. Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire tells the story of this legendary garden, and the distance one woman must travel—from the cold, harsh streets of Manhattan to the lush...

Mike Walton had experienced terrorism from every angle. As a covert field operations officer, he thought he'd seen it all, but that was before terrorism struck him directly at home. Suffering devastating physical injury and unthinkable personal loss, Mike had one of two choices: give up or fight back, and giving up wasn't in his makeup. Mike and his wife, Lisa, a medical doctor and fellow counter-terrorism expert, are recruited to lead a hastily assembled team to Europe to stop the madness before time runs out.

A cantankerous talking cactus reveals the significance of colors in flowers. Each different color means something to pollinators - bees, bats, birds, and more - to help them navigate and pollinate easily! This fun, nonfiction presentation of science combines our favorite pollinators and flowers to present new information that may surprise even some adults!

When a group of former classmates gather for their 10-year reunion, old grudges resurface as old flames rekindle—and then things go straight to hell. As a shower of comets brings an invasion of reunion-crashing undead, the surviving alumni must band together in this litRPG apocalypse filled with dark humor, horror, and loot cards!

It's the summer of 1822, and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. In botanical circles, however, a different kind of excitement has gripped the city. In the newly installed Botanic Garden, the Agave Americana plant looks set to flower - an event that only occurs once every few decades. When newly widowed Elizabeth arrives in Edinburgh to live with her late husband's aunt, Clementina, she's determined to put her unhappy past in London behind her. As she settles into her new home, she becomes fascinated by the beautiful Botanic Garden.

The girl he’d planned to marry shattered his heart into a thousand pieces. His best friend stabbed him in the back. He was heartbroken, angry, and ashamed. Then he met Fiona. Could she help put his life back together, or would her witchy ways lead him further down a dark and wrathful path? And what of the plant? It had grown from a cursed seed that he’d nurtured with his own blood. Vengeance has teeth, and sometimes it comes in the form of a flesh-eating ecological horror.

From the best-selling author of Heartless Heathens, TGSLLPFTM is a killer rom-com, feel-good, magical short story about fated love blooming in the most unexpected of places.

Inside the Dragon's Tower, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. To win, climbers from all corners must brave the harrowing floors one by one. Each floor is tougher and the higher the floor, the less success there is. After a hundred floors filled with unique challenges, a prize awaits—a dragon's egg. To Tem, the Dragon's Tower seems simple from his distant farmland on the frontier. The harsh truth of the situation involves politics, personal sacrifices, and unfathomable struggles to keep advancing.

Love grows in the most unimaginable of places in Summer N. England's sweet and spicy cozy romantasy debut, for fans of The Spellshop and For Whom the Belle Tolls! Most stories end with a happily ever after. But mine? Well, it begins with one . . . After a lonely childhood, Clara Thorne is living...

The globetrotting naturalists of the 18th century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology. In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus's life and career in readable, relatable prose.

In the heart of a quiet town, a young woman tends to her plant shop, but beneath the surface of her lush, green sanctuary lies something far darker.... Will you dare to disrespect her plants? Tucked away in the corner of a neighborhood in Dosan, South Korea, is the Plant Shop. Shop owner Yoohee...

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his ’little women’ when he comes home.

Join Chedderfield and his companions as they navigate a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with dark humor, horror, and heart-wrenching deaths. Get ready for twists, turns, and gut-wrenching losses as you follow the journey to uncover the truth behind Archimedes' death and the true meaning of survival in a world where anything can happen.

The Hell-Cursed have grown even stronger as they feed off the dead bodies left in the wake of humanity’s apocalyptic war for survival. Where there were once chaotic hordes now march undead armies with singular purpose. With this new threat looming on the horizon, leveling up may not be enough.

Yu-hee kann mit Menschen nicht viel anfangen. Ihre eigentliche Liebe gilt den Pflanzen. Und so tauscht sie ihren frustrierenden Bürojob gegen einen eigenen Pflanzenladen in Sejin. Hier, zwischen Avocado, Agave und Rosmarin fühlt sie sich wohl. Ihr „Pflanzen-Shop“ wird zu ihrer Oase. Und auch andere Frauen sehen in Yu-hees Pflanzenladen bald einen Rückzugsort vor ihren persönlichen Dramen und Nöten, die nicht selten mit übergriffigen Männern zu tun haben. Für ihre Kundinnen hat Yu-hee immer ein offenes Ohr. Doch das ist nicht alles: Sie sorgt dafür, dass die Männer verschwinden.

There is an old adage...be careful what you wish for. Truer words were never spoken. When it comes to changing the world, one step at a time can have thousands of meanings. Short fiction (less than 7,000 words), The Plant is submitted for your entertainment and is 100 percent fiction...to the best of my knowledge.

Welcome to Sabden, home of the mines that once produced fully half of Britain’s treacle – the sticky stuff that goes into golden syrup, ginger beer and parkin cake. But the wells have run dry, the Bubble and Boggart pub is closing, and the villagers find themselves in a very sticky situation…

Plant Stories: original stories related to plants plus a taste of plant-related African, Yoruba myths. Every culture has its myths and fables - tales from around the world that have evolved to explain how we interact with each other, nature, and the elements - tales that, above all, have evolved to help us cope with our fears, achieve our dreams, and help us understand our planet and our place in it.

When a woman claiming to possess an unearthly connection to plant-life dies mysteriously, her sister becomes compelled to put to rest unanswered questions in the matter and begins an investigation of the plant/human communication phenomenon. Her shocking conclusion is that her sister's house-plants are not only cogent key-witnesses to her murder, but may be atte.mpting to warn her that she is in similar danger.

Mina Kane’s next undercover op is of the green thumb variety. Tasked to break into a penthouse at the tip-top of a megascraper and air-meld incriminating data on a hydro-shipping mogul, Mina must first pose as an apt gardener who knows a thing or two about roses. The only problem is the rookie’s along for the ride, and he’s a pro at making everything more difficult than it has to be.