The Faded Frontier
The scale read twelve hundred pounds of rot. Elias Thorne adjusted the lever, his boots slipping on the wet linoleum of the packing shed, counting the bags of bruised Gala apples that had turned black inside their skins. Twelve hundred pounds. The number hung in the cold air, a weight heavier than the fruit itself, and he felt the familiar, dull ache in his right forearm where the skin had...
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