Sarah Bowden

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“Falling Fruit” by Sarah Bowden

Submitted to Contest #63

He kept picking up apples from the scrubby grass, taking a single bite, and then tossing them back into the dirt under the trees.“That’s rotting fruit,” she reminded him for the millionth time.“They’re fallen apples,” he said for the millionth time. “No one is going to eat them just because they touched the ground. But they tugged themselves off the branches because they’re ripe.”She shrugged with absolute neutrality. This was meant to be a fun day out, not a fight or a nag.“I’m going to pay for whatever we actually pick, Alana.”She scanned ...

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