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Prompt: 039. lemon tree
1. Opening the door to a tall, slender woman holding a potted lemon tree was a new experience.
A. Opening the door to a tall, slender woman holding a potted lemon tree was a new experience. She took it to be a result of moving to such a hoity-toity neighborhood.
The last place she’d lived, she was greeted by someone helping themself to several boxes off the moving truck. She’d never gotten any of that stuff back.
“Hello?” she said.
2. There were lemon trees in the backyard and a hammock waiting for someone to settle in for a nap.
A. There were lemon trees in the backyard and a hammock waiting for someone to settle in for a nap. It was everything that they’d dreamed of when they’d imagined the house they wanted.
“What’s wrong with this place?”
“What?”
“Well, it’s absolutely perfect and lovely and everything that a person would want in a house. It even has a yard! Why is the price so low?”
“Uh… I didn’t want to mention anything, but there may have been a murder or two. Or five over the course of two years.”
3. He woke tangled in the branches of a lemon tree.
A. He woke tangled in the branches of a lemon tree. His mouth tasted heavily of alcohol and his stomach cramped with the need to vomit.
Where am I? he thought, then grimaced at the loudness of his own internal voice. He felt like he was dying.
