Figs

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Meg Pokrass

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She was eating fruit from her tree, gazing with those dark brown eyes. These figs are so
ready, she said, eying me close. She touched my fingers. How sticky it felt when she focused
on me— irises like fruit flies. You must be thinking I’m someone else, I wanted to say, and
blushed. Years have passed since then, and I wish I had softened, had taken her hand. We
were young and everything tasted good. Instead, I told her it was getting late, I had to get
home. Take some with you then, she said. I could smell myself sweating. I’m not worth
picking, I thought, as I fluttered away.

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Meg Pokrass is the author of Breath and Shadow: Six Sentence Stories (with Robert Scotellaro), First Law of Holes: New and Selected Stories (Dzanc Books, 2024) and eight previous collections of flash fiction and two novellas in flash. Her work has been published in Electric Literature, New England Review, Best American Poetry, Tin House, RATTLE, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and elsewhere. Meg is the founding editor of Best Microfiction.

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