A K, Author at Agnes and True

You let your ex spend the night, and you aren’t really sleeping. Instead you are pretending to sleep—the blanket way up over your head when he pushes his palm into the meaty part of your thigh, kneading your skin over and over with increasing pressure—until you can’t ignore him. You want to leave the blanket up over your head, in hopes that he’ll retreat as he has done so many times before, in hopes that he’ll go out the door into the snow that has crusted over into ice, into the frozen expanse beyond your […]

The Olive Oil Story: A Cold Harvest

by Edward Sampson

The wind off the Strait cut hard that May morning. The market was waking slow, tables half-open, vendors blowing on their hands. I wasn’t looking for anything—just the walk, maybe a coffee, a loaf of bread.

Then I saw him.

A small man, wiry, with skin dark as old leather. His hands moved in steady motions, placing bottles in a row. His face had been carved by years outdoors, but his eyes were alive, sharp. The sign read: “Olive Oil.”

I stopped and looked again. “Morning,” he said. His voice was heavy with Italy.

“You’re selling olive oil?”

“Yes,” he […]

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The Olive Oil Story: A Cold Harvest