Found 9 works tagged 'food'.
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Lunar Year's End
Published Jan 15, 2020 · 4,185 words (16 minutes) · 309 views
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Nyonya trader Yap Siew Fei is on another voyage, but her indomitable maid Ching Seow Fen won't let her forget about New Year.
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Sickly Sweet
Published Nov 30, 2019 · 4,298 words (16 minutes) · 78 views
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A cross between 'The Girl Without Hands' and 'Hansel and Gretel', from the witch's perspective.
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Meeting Before Breakfast
Published Jun 28, 2019 · 70 words (1 minute) · 200 views
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A poem for anyone who's missed breakfast. Originally published as C.L. Holland.
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Medically Snacked
Published Jun 24, 2019 · 5,064 words (19 minutes) · 23 likes · 983 views
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In a world with guaranteed income and a daily allotment of calories in the form of soybars or synth chocolate, everyone’s free to follow their dreams — everyone except a former baker, that is. What would Marty risk to bake just one more cupcake?
Author Amit Gupta has lived in a commune, ridden cross-country on a motorcycle with his dog, and appeared on the CBS Early Show with cupcakes in hand. He writes optimistic science fiction and believes in the future.
Content warning: discussion of weight and calories.
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The Terroir From Beyond Space
Published May 21, 2019 · 4,058 words (15 minutes) · 2 likes · 229 views
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In this early short story, originally published in the Ouen Press 2018 Short Story Competition Anthology, what starts out as a deep Solar System explorer's guide to food in space gradually turns into something more dire.
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The Six Hundred Universes of Jenny Zars
Published Jul 24, 2018 · 2,059 words (8 minutes) · 4 likes · 933 views
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In a thousand different universes, the possibilities to remake your life might as well be endless. Wendy Nikel, crack author and tea aficionado, creates beautifully-constructed, gem-like short stories. Read fifteen of them on Curious Fictions.
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Lava Cake for the Apocalypse
Published Jun 26, 2018 · 855 words (4 minutes) · 4 likes · 732 views
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What’s the recipe for a world worth saving? This “Lava Cake for the Apocalypse” may taste bittersweet. Author Wendy Nikel is a managing editor at Flash Fiction Online, winner of the Baen Memorial Award, and has over a dozen stories available on Curious Fictions. Go explore some stories!
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The Joy of Baking
Published Feb 3, 2018 · 2,434 words (9 minutes) · 4 likes · 755 views
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In the house between lives, two bakers usher souls through purgatory with the universal healer: cake.
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Rain Like Diamonds
Published Sep 19, 2017 · 1,276 words (5 minutes) · 505 views
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When a dragon lays waste to her kingdom, a Queen must find a solution to the resulting famine.
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