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Out here in the heartland, with sprawling fields and far-off trees on every side of them, gravel roads and low fences, Maya feels like the powers that be took a chunk of the American South and stuck it in the middle of Northern California. Autumn looks like autumn up here, the way she remembered it from the mountains—with deciduous trees that shift colour and shed, leaving the earth underfoot a mosaic of colour… when Franziska had asked her out on this little weekend trip, Maya didn’t even have to think before shouting yes!If she never sees a browning palm tree again, it’ll still have been too soon.//Written for Sicktember 2023Day 18: "Wear Your Coat, You'll Catch a Cold."