IanG

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.

There are people who find it hard to open up, that rings true. So does the difference of opinion and change of mind regarding the movie.

At first it seems like things will never be all right again. Then there's a period when some days are not bad and others are horrible again. Don't be afraid to ask for support.

My mother died four years ago. She didn't take her own life but I know it takes time to get back on an even keel. Things are never the same again, but that first surge of grief and bewilderment won't last. You can't put a timetable on recovery, it takes different people in different ways.

I hope things work out for you BAMBI. Treatments for cancer have advanced over the last few decades and more people come through it than before. I hope it won't go that far but if it does remember that.