“The fall of the brightest” by Nina Sechko tells the story of an apple that longed to be the reddest of them all. Determined to outshine the rest, it constantly turned itself toward the sun, ensuring every side was bathed in its warmth, deepening its crimson hue. But in its relentless pursuit of perfection, the apple failed to realize that ripening faster also meant falling sooner. The moment it achieved its ultimate redness, it tumbled from the branch before the others, before its time.