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"Some kind of sweet thing takes hold of you in the late summer.
"It’s not much. You take it for nostalgia—standing in the pick-your-own orchard, your family and best friend flitting about selecting perfect apples, you inhale the fruit-air and, dizzied, consider years past. Other orchards. Former friends. The nearly-autumns you’ve endured; all kinds of youth leaving you. In the neat tree row you and yours bite into Pink Ladies and so ravenously embody the scavenger: fruit-blood drips slickly from your mouths.
"You leave the field on the hayride tractor with the rest of them, rumbling back to the world. Still, you feel you’re stretching from that last apple tree—part of you was left there, or, there, something new crawled in. It’s leaving a trail. You’re being streaked across the air, your body a smeared photograph. Sweetripeness dogs you.
Maybe you’re getting sick."
— "Newton Considers the Still Life," 2024, short fiction
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