Category 2021 SS Prompt 8: The Flowers

Letting go is hard.

I want to make a change in other people’s lives. That is why I want to start a flower farm.

A close-knit community is shaken to the core when its long-serving priest is convicted of stealing funds from the church. The would-be recipients, the Simmons siblings, feel cheated and the neighbors gather their resources to raise more funds and assist them. However, all is not what is seems. Moira Donovan and her children stumble on unsavory information which turns their lives inside out.

“Hi, I’m Chrys Flowers”. Iris stared at the bunch of marigolds the strange young man held out to her.  Really? “Thank you. Iris Vinetti”, she accepted, but held the pungent blossoms away from her. Who gives marigolds as a bouquet…...