Mr. Tomlin hesitated. Despite their dispute, how could he not give his next-door neighbour a bag of apples when other neighbours received theirs?

He stepped onto the porch, rang the doorbell.

“Want some apples? Bumper crop this year.” He cringed.

The neighbour paused, then said, “Much obliged. You like tomatoes?”

Krystyna writes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Her published works can be found online, in magazines and anthologies.