It tasted like nothing I knew.
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Not crisp. Not fresh. Those were lies people told in commercials. This was alive —sharp as pine resin, dark as the soil under last year’s snow. I felt it move past my throat, fill the hollows of my chest, and for one absurd moment, I understood what he meant. Oxygen wasn’t a given. It was a gift, pressed into your lungs by every green thing that bothered to wake up that morning. fill the hollows of my chest