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My mother died five years ago and it upset me very much. I was lucky because I had good friends to help me. I get the impression you're more isolated than I was. I had bad times before mum died but things improved. Its possible for things to change in your favour even when it serms impossible. Nothing can bring our parents back but we can learn to cope in spite of the pain. I still miss her but the support of my friends helped me through the darkest time. I hope this helps.

I sincerety hope things get better for you soom Scorp. The word weept should be wept but that's a minor issue. I think you're showing courage and resiliance but I wish yoi didn't have to.

This is a good story with a moving ending. I could imagine myself there.

This is a fine story, You describe the setting and build suspense very well. You also bring in a big contemporary issue, the lithium mining or potential for it.

This is fine descriptive writing and a good coming of age piece. I hope you keep writing like this.

This is a good fusion of science and allegory. I see the parallel between seed an immigrant, but there is some botanical truth here as well. Plants many people think are native were introduced long ago by humans, and it has been said 'a weed is only a plant where you don't want it.' There is a risk, in this kind of allegory, of imposing too many human preconceptions on nature. You have avoided that here.

I think you're right, that's how they would be treated. It shouldn't be like that but it is.

I like your style, you describe things with detail and imagination.