Limes

Available September 16, 2023

Talking Stick Volume 32

Exclusively in Talking Stick Volume 32

from Limes

…Now I’m alone in this far away store. One kid is restocking lettuce. A young couple is arguing about root vegetables, but it’s hard to tell with their masks on. There is a steady, unrushed beep at the checkout. Squeezing the limes feels mildly criminal. Beep. Simple pleasures, right? Beep. These two fit inside my palm just so. Beep. The fruit’s skin has these miniature indentations-craters- like they’d been small moons plucked from the sky. Beep. 

I hold one up to my nose, slip my mask down, closing my eyes. I can feel the sun on my pale face. How can something smell warm? This fruit is magic: a tiny globe of captured sunshine…

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