“I want a mug from the plant pot stories contest,” Nick says. “Join me?”

He’s a devil. He knows I’m a gambler.

I haven’t grown plants since I rubbed my eyes after harvesting chili in the flat I’ll probably never return to.

None of us needs another reason to cry.

Elena Shakhnovsky is a Tel Aviv-based writer, currently in the Creative Writing Program at Bar-Ilan University.