If there's one thing I hate to do as an author, it's publish a story that I am not 100% sure is 100% my best work. Hence, after careful consideration, I decided to delete "Scorn of an Apple". It just wasn't up to the quality I demand and expect.

I do like the concept of an Apple Family poverty/bad harvest, and it's a concept that I very well may revisit in the future, it just didn't work in this context.

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