Found: one piece of fruit. Status: consumed. Verdict: real.
Pass. Fail. Neither.
You realize you were never checking the apple’s provenance. You were checking your own: Are you still the kind of person who eats an apple down to the stem? Who reads a serial number like a poem? Who breaks something open just to hear it speak? apple sn check
You press your nail into the flesh. It resists, then gives. A clean snap. Found: one piece of fruit