this is actually one of my favorite short stories of all time & i think about it at least once a month
s. m. hallow
From the Archives "Ten Fruits and Other Memories of Rialynas" @anamariacurtis.bsky.social BCS #353 "it tasted of nothing at all. The flavor of a berenton is determined entirely by its surroundings. Alas, in Rialynas I came to find that I was the same." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/ten-...
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When I recovered, I tried to peel a berenton myself. The skin of the fruit seemed to harden wherever my fingers landed, showed sharp scales everywhere I moved my thumb, made a bloody mess of my hand. When at last I wrestled the flesh out, it tasted of nothing at all. The flavor of a berenton is determined entirely by its surroundings. Alas, in Rialynas I came to find that I was the same.