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I wrote the first of ankewehner's paid prompts to her prompt '"I didn't expect those to grow in fields" (or "on trees" or "on vines" or something like that)'. This story came in at 800 words.

“I’ve heard of companion planting, of course,” said Fulgrind as he surveyed the fields before them. “My mother and wife both do it in the garden, mainly marigolds for the nematodes, but this…” Words failed him as he took in the nearly ripe, transparent fruiting bodies of the unfamiliar, sturdy plants dotted through the orchard and clustered around its perimeter.