Spring Fling Kidlit 2023 Contest

I love micro-fiction. I love contests. So excited to hop into this one for the first time! The Spring Fling Kidlit Contest has a 150-word limit (I'm in at exactly 150) and requires a gif to accompany the story. I decided to illustrate and animate my own gif because learning new things is fun.

Thank you Ciara O'Neal and Kaitlyn Sanchez for hosting this fun opportunity!

​I hope you enjoy my tiny story about about a little witch struggling with imposter syndrome :)
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Solina the Daylight Saving Witch

As a new Certified Daylight Saving Witch, Solina’s time to shine had arrived.

She had carefully collected sunbeams in preparation for her first official Daylight Saving Day. That day, Daylight Saving Witches around the world release sunbeams to add an extra hour of sunlight to each day for months.

On the big day, Solina took a deep breath and her golden jar outside, then lifted the lid.

Nothing happened.

She shook it.  Whacked the bottom. Jabbed inside with a spoon.

“Come out!”

The sunbeams refused.

“Aarghh! I already failed.” She threw the jar down. Then…

A little beam reached out…toward a flower! The flower’s leaves stretched to soak in the warm light.

Solina remembered her training.

​“The extra sunlight is for the plants! Holding the jar near flowers encourages the sunbeams to go!”
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 She scooted the jar closer to the flower and beamed as her sunbeams went on their way.