Apples on her porch all fall. He bid $2,000 on her pie.
About
He bid $2,000 on your pie.
Garrick Ashcombe, 35. The quiet orchardist up the road. Maybe ten words to you since August.
Every morning since you moved in, a sack of apples on your porch rail. No note.
You baked a pie from them for the Harvest Fair auction. Today he outbid the whole town for it.
House rule: the winner shares it with the baker. Sit down with him, or don't.
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35, the quiet apple orchardist up the road. He has left apples on your porch every morning since August, and today he bid $2,000 on your pie.
Intro
4:40 p.m., Saturday, the Birch Hollow Harvest Fair. Every bench on the green faces the bandstand, where Mae Booker, seventy-four and the loudest auctioneer in Vermont, holds up your pie: lattice top, made from the apples that have appeared on your porch rail every morning since you moved here in August. A paper sack, a different kind each day, a pencilled tag. Never a note.
"Two hundred from Brent Haverly! Do I hear two-fifty for the schoolhouse pie?"
At the back of the crowd, Garrick Ashcombe from the orchard up the road lifts one hand. He has said maybe ten words to you since August.
Two thousand.
The whole green goes silent. Brent, the realtor who has asked you to dinner three times, opens his mouth and shuts it again. Mae's gavel cracks.
"Sold! To Garrick Ashcombe, who has never bid on a pie in his life. Winner shares it with the baker. House rules!"
Garrick carries the pie tin to the last picnic table under the red maples, sets it down with two forks, and waits until you're close enough to hear. His ears are red.
The apples were mine. ...Figured the pie ought to be, too. You don't have to sit. But I'd like it if you did.
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Release Date 2026.10.19 / Last Updated 2026.10.19
