Write a story about someone searching for a missing ingredient, literally or metaphorically.

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“Ultra Nova Root” by Day Williams

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Mira Kalihar stood expectantly by the Czar’s table. The large man sat on a throne, and the Empress, a slim woman with long red hair who loved to wear her crown, sat at the opposite end of the long table on an ornate chair. Between them sat emissaries and ambassadors from other solar systems, each one present to petition the Czar for a favor. The Czar, who stood six and a half feet tall and weighed as much as an adult gorilla, was used to getting his way. He tried to show compassion in front of his dinner guests by saying, “Your husband...

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“Elfin Thyme” by H.J. Moberg

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Attempt thirty-one. Thursday.Me and my assistant Annieta stood by the monkey cage in the laboratory – a dimly lit basement – closely monitoring what was happening.The concoction had caused the monkey’s nails to grow several times longer, turning into claws. But not only the nails had grown.The concoction provoked a transformation. The monkey was bigger. Fiercer.The beast looked around, as if newly awaken, and then unprovokedly attacked the bars of the cage. The metal rang. Luckily the monkey wasn’t as strong as a forest elephant. After thirt...

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“A LIttle Bit of This and a Dash of That” by Pete Gautchier

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Prompt: Write about someone searching for a missing ingredient, literally or metaphorically. A Little Bit of This and a Dash of That When I was a little tyke, I used to follow my momma everywhere. Most of the time she would be in the kitchen preparing meals for the day, baking sweet goods and even canning or pickling vegetables and some fruit from our garden. My momma was loaded with energy, especially when it came to food preparation. “Yeah, I am a real dynamo,” she would sarcastically say. One day when I was literally ...

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“A Mysterious Ingredient” by Will Chu

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"The Queen still doesn't take a bite!""Ah, we're doomed!"Inside the magnificent decorated kitchen of the palace, several chefs let out a desperate wail in horror.It turned out that a few months ago, the Queen had come down with a strange disease, with no appetite at all, and was completely uninterested in facing the mountainous delicacies made by the royal chefs - even smelling the aroma would make her feel uncomfortable. The doctor claimed that there was nothing wrong with the queen's body, but the king did not believe him. The king insiste...

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“FINALLY SOMETHING WHITE” by Azemina Klobodanovic

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It is already the end of autumn 1994. The war in Bosnia is still going on. We hope, we deeply believe, that the war will come to an end at least in the spring when everything comes to life, when we, the walking dead, dried up by hunger, by shells and sirens, terrified by war, will come to life again. Well, in the spring everything grows, and revives, nothing should die! I'm in a hurry, almost running to get to work. On me, the pants are tied with a tie around the waist and thus reduced to at least three sizes smaller than the previous one, b...

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“The Missing Link” by Burton Sage

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The Missing LinkbyBurt Sage It was June, 1963. Jobs were scarce. I had just graduated with my Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from NYU and was looking for my first job. My degree in Electrical Engineering was kind of misleading. If I had had more room on my resume, I would have described the revolutionary changes that were occurring in my field. It was no longer about motors and generators and transformers and long distance energy transmission. Now it was all about solid state physics, signal processing, both optical and electr...

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“Missing you” by Martina Brunetti

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tw: death The train is late. As usual. What luck, I am late too. And today, those are five vital minutes for me to get right on time: I had stayed talking with my friends too much today, and I had forgotten I should come back home. The train arrives and starts to brake lazily. The locomotive always stops too far forward, just a few steps away from the end of the platform. And now I’m in the middle, in between two doors. I choose the first wagon, usually among the most silent ones: everybody else usually chooses the middle.I n...

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“Salt and spice” by Jagoda Puchala

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I had a specific issue ever since a very early age: I’ve always hated what I already know. What has been consumed, digested and absorbed by my mind, holds no interest for me. So I ran out of anything interesting around the age of 5, I stopped looking for more around 8 and ever since I have been as miserable as it gets. And now, only to deepen my misery, I can not find the forsaken salt. Unfortunately the universe has failed me and I did not die at the age of 10. Mama raised, in fact, quite a quitter, so I never tried to free myself ag...

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“Cayenne Surprise” by Gil Harris

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Cayenne Surprise I grew up in the most anti-culinary household in the history of cookery. The only spice in the cabinet was salt and Accent (Monosodium glutamate). A celebratory night out was a trip to the Sizzler Steak House, the most mundane so-called restaurant in the history of dining establishments. Granted, this was before the advent of Olive Garden and Red Lobster, those lame excuses for restaurants. Italian food in my household was from a Chef Boyardee can. Home cooked dinner was anything deep fried in bacon grease. Any v...

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Write a story about someone searching for a missing ingredient, literally or metaphorically.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 54 stories

“Ultra Nova Root” by Day Williams

“Elfin Thyme” by H.J. Moberg

“A LIttle Bit of This and a Dash of That” by Pete Gautchier

“A Mysterious Ingredient” by Will Chu

“FINALLY SOMETHING WHITE” by Azemina Klobodanovic

“The Missing Link” by Burton Sage

“Missing you” by Martina Brunetti

“Salt and spice” by Jagoda Puchala

“Cayenne Surprise” by Gil Harris

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Write a story in the form of a recipe.

Start or end your story with two people discussing an important matter over a meal.

Write a story inspired by the saying “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Set your story in a kitchen, either early in the day or late at night.

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