The Actor's Contract
It should be beautiful.
The purple stone fruits, dangling in the light, overhead, flashing against the green leaves that murmur in the faint breeze. The air, thick with the scent of ripening crops, faintly fermented, almost rotting. Bees humming low, drunk on sugar, circling the fruit that has plummeted and split in the dust.
It really should be beautiful.
But today the orchard smells too sweet, almost sickening, as if the air itself wants to mock us with abundance. Today, it sits heavy in my throat like something rancid.
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