Hey Steemian I dont normally write short stories but Hive account@swissclive invites all Steemians to write a short fiction story in under 300 words. Anyone can participate and the story can be in any language but its encouraged to consider to atleast have a written in English translation.

Also please encourage others especially newbies to give it a try as its not too late to get your entry in yet.

Here are some rules by Hive account@swissclive

Rules:
The first tag must be "story-300words"
The story must be less than 300 words long
Your original work only. No plagiarism (copying stories from the internet)
Last day for this initiative is 8th January 2018

Word count: 292

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The day started sunny but the clouds were closing in so farmer John knew he better get going.
It was nearly new years and farmer John didn't have much more time to sell hes bag of precious seeds.
So he was on his way to the market to sell hes bag of seeds but rushing and being a little careless his cart bumped into a rather large stone.
One tiny seed fell out of the bag unknown to farmer John.
The little seed wished it could be safe underground from the birds.
Lucky for him a horse running a field pressed the little seed into the ground.
Now underground the little seed realised he was now very thirsty and needed water to help grow.
Farmer John arrived just in time to the market as it just began to rain.

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The little seed drunk lots of water.
The following day the seed had a bright green shoot.
With the weather improving the sun came out and the shoot grew tall.
It wasn't long until its first leaf appeared.
But with this new found beauty a bird tried to pluck and eat the seed but luckily our seed had been busy building its roots which saved him.
Many years passed and the seed grew into a plant and then into a fine tree.
Below the tree a passing little old man took cover under the tree from the strong heat of the sun.
When the tree looked down it was farmer John who was now very old.
The man who was so keen on selling him away so many years ago was now taking shelter under the tiny seed from getting a bad case of sun stroke.
Who is luckiest now do you think?

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