#4 No Adverbs

Early in the spring morning, with the light casting blue shadows along the dew-dropped grass, small creatures awaken. They drink from the water left behind by the cool of night and wash their tiny faces. Their green skin with veins of yellow help them to blend in with the plants around them. At first, when the spring is new, it can be hard for the creatures to hide from the large humans. Then again, the humans never notice their presence after all of these years.

One small creature pulls back its wispy hair and steps into the sunshine. The light is warm and sweet. The creature sighs before picking up a small flute and running down a long leaf of grass, until its feet touch the damp ground. It walks and plays a little melody. At first, all is quiet except for the sweet song. Then the ground erupts with new grass, dandelions explode through the dirt, and the spikes of tulips prod towards the sky. The creature looks at them and smiles before continuing on as the plants wake up and stretch.

Some may believe that the animals and plants sense spring coming, but in fact they would be wrong. These small creatures-- you may call them fairies if you wish-- are the true messengers of spring as they sing their tune to call out the life that had been hidden for so long. Winter is over, let spring begin!

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I wanted to write a little bit of fiction today, so there you have it. I was going to write about something else, but I'll save that for my "safe place." I'm also glad I was still able to use adjectives. If anyone reads this and finds an adverb, please let me know. Turns out, this was a very good exercise for me because my understanding of adverbs is a little bit muddled. That's actually why I have this exercise. It's important to understand the terminology of grammar and syntax on top of being able to determine what words are which in a sentence. When learning German, we would spend plenty of time marking the subject, verb, direct object, and the like, but I always wish we did that in English for good measure (to be fair, German makes it complicated by changing the case conjugation depending on what it is in the sentence, but I'm not going to go into that). This was fun to write though, and I'm quite enjoying these little spats every day.