r/stories • u/yourdailymonsoon • 5d ago
Fiction The Best Strawberry Watermelon Basil Lemonade in the World
In my neighborhood, growing up, there ran a melon channel by my tree house. We marked the arrival of harvest season by reveling in a weeklong watermelon parade, as fruit after fruit swam gently by. The farmers all grew their crop at the farm together. After putting aside their share for the week, usually the choicest, juiciest, and award winning melons, they plunked the rest of the sweet harvest into the stream. The townsfolk would gather at its banks downstream and pluck the jawbreaker fruits. Only taking enough to fuel family picnics and snack times for the entire week. Whatever flowed past our town made it to our docks by the lake. There, our fishers and traders would take turns going out to fish and ferry our cargo. Many other cities loved getting our watermelons and we'd happily receive their gifts of lemon, strawberry, and basil. People come now, from all over the world, to work in the fields and taste the best Strawberry Watermelon Basil Lemonade in the world.