“That sound starts up at the beginning of every spring.”
“I’m sorry, but did you say they begin spring by rolling a giant cheese wheel down a hill?”
“Bees, allergies, what’s not to hate about spring?”
Following an ancient custom, a woman ties a charm to a fruit tree on the beginning of spring to bring prosperity. The following day, a man unwittingly removes the charm, changing both of their lives in an instant.
A pair of rival florists are forced to work together at the last minute, otherwise neither will win the annual spring arranging championship.
Spring tastes like…
“No, I mean, there really is a buzz in the air. Can’t you feel it?”
A set designer on a children’s television show is tasked with designing a cheery springtime set. However, she’s in a more wintery mood and something goes to air to reflect that.
A middle-aged businessman is running half naked through the city, shouting that he’s answering the rite of spring. He’s not mentally unstable in any way.
A traveler visits a village and witnesses a traditional springtime game of buzkashi (a polo like game that uses a goat carcass instead of a ball).
A local springtime custom based on flowers and eggs is banned by the new authorities as promoting demonology.
A mother and child are out looking for four-leaf clovers, when the child makes a discovery that brings more good luck than either could have imagined.
On the first day of spring, you are walking along the street. You find a rose with twenty dollars wrapped around the stem. Shortly after you find another rose, this one has fifty dollars and a small note.
“I’m always depressed in the spring.”
In a village barely on the map, every year it rains flower petals. The villagers have been keeping it a secret for generations.
“A new girlfriend at the start of every spring, it’s just what he does.”
A group of children find trouble when they disturb a beehive in the woods. One of the children has chronic allergies, but not to bees.
“People think the language of flowers is just a quaint folk custom, but they’re the people who have never actually heard the flowers talk.”
A farmer gathers his first harvest of the season. Something altogether unexpected has happened to the produce that will change his family’s fortunes for generations to come.
A man learns that what he thought was common seasonal spring allergies is actually something far more sinister, and something no science can explain.
An ancient tribal custom holds that working the land on the spring equinox will bring a blight. One year, this holds true for the city that has grown up on that site.
“When frog’s croak, winter’s broke.”
“Yes, but when spring is near, robins appear. When was the last time you saw a robin?”
“Please, for the sake of the children, can we just not have any more spring time superstitions? It’s getting out of control.”
An American woman meets an Australian man during the Indian springtime festival of Holi. It starts off as a typical vacation fling, but events at the end of the celebration send their encounter into unexpected adventures.
During Australia’s annual spring festival of Floriade, a child forms a friendship with a creature he meets in the daffodil beds.
A small town literally has four seasons in one day, every day.
