Longlisted for the 2020 Voyage YA Short Story Award Content warning: sexual assault . force-ripe in British English Caribbean ADJECTIVE 1. (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage 2. precocious, esp. sexually (The Collins Dictionary) . Earlier today you spent eleven minutes perched on a rock by Lake Mekhi watching a great blue heron fish. You methodically […]
