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Posted in Funny on Oct 26, 2022

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Enlightened

Shortlisted for Contest #7 ⭐️

Jax could feel all six of his legs buckling under the weight of the hundreds of pairs of horrified eyes staring at him in shocked silence. The weekly meeting was usually a boring affair where personal grievances were aired and gossip was exchanged, but every now and then someone had some exciting news about food. Today Jax was that someone, and the rest of the colony listened joyful anticipation until he mentioned the location of the new food source he’d discovered. He knew that part wouldn’t go over well, but he didn’t expect this. He proba...

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The Last Cacao

Shortlisted for Contest #7 ⭐️

“Grandma? Can you tell me about…chocolate?”            Katie’s face was cautious. There was something like fearful anticipation turning the brown of her eyes black, the way truffles used to look. Her question stirred decades-old memories, making my mouth water.            I swallowed and asked, “How do you know about chocolate?”            My granddaughter cast a furtive look at ...

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Petit Café

Submitted to Contest #7

Mason Sarratt took a bite of his muffin, and stared out the window of his grandmother’s café, wishing he could go back home and play basketball. The timer above the oven went off for what felt like the millionth time this morning. Mason turned to glare at the timer above the purple oven. Today, January 12, was his birthday, and he was stuck in the café.The café’s door opened, and he crouched down beneath the counter. If anyone from school saw him in this pink and purple apron, three sizes too small, he would never hear the end of it. Mason h...

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Talking with dead husband

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Life is like a maze-puzzle, in which start and finish point is already decided by a Supreme Power, we all are trying different routes in our own way to reach the finishing point. For Julia also, one path which was to live with her husband Martin, was closed. Martin chose a short-cut leaving her alone to try all other routes available.Every month on the same date, Julia visited Martin’s grave with a cake baked by her. That day she chose chocolate flavor as it was his birthday today and chocolate was his favorite flavor. Every month she would ...

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The Boy who Cried Cake

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There once was a boy named Jerald. Every day Jerald worked sitting in a bakery watching the chocolate cake. His job was to make sure nobody touched the chocolate cake.This chocolate cake was very special. It had been made when the town was founded. (100 years ago) The villagers never ate it, for it was too beautiful to eat. Now it was considered a huge part of the town and its people.One afternoon Jerald decided he would play a little prank on the townsfolk."CAKE! CAKE! CAKE! CAKE!!!!!!!!" he cried. "Somebody's eating the cake!"All the towns...

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The Widow

Submitted to Contest #7

Set at a whopping 375 degrees, the old oven struggled to get up to temperature. I kicked the hissing box of scrap metal causing the partially hinged door to fall open. “Shit.” I muttered. I slammed the door shut and set down the overloaded paper bags. My shoulder throbbed wearisomely, and the oven, unbothered, continued to whistle and wheeze behind me. I unpacked the groceries arranging them into an orderly pile and assessed my damage. There were some eggs, a bag of potatoes, and a small slab of red meat but the rest of the items were for my...

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Not Having Your Cake but Still Eating it

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NOT HAVING YOUR CAKE BUT STILL EATING ITWhen Judith inherited her Auntie Lily’s cottage she was touched but not entirely surprised (Auntie Lily, who was really her great-aunt had told her she was considering leaving it to her twenty years ago when she was only seventy) and Auntie Lily had made it plain in her will that though she quite liked the idea of her (great) niece living in it she was also absolutely fine about her selling it if she chose.    Judith still wasn’t sure in her own mind what she wanted to do. ...

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The Day The Dog Ate Our Future

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“You idiot! What on earth were you thinking?” It hadn’t been the reaction he was expecting when his girlfriend arrived, but on reflection it really should’ve been. “You think I did this deliberately?” His girlfriend Becky opened her mouth, before snapping it shut again. In a way it would’ve been better if she’d just come out and accused him of it, rather than try to pretend that she had any respect left for him. “Oh thanks. Thanks a bunch Becky.” “Well come on. You’ve never liked Jasper, I know you want him gone.” “There’s a difference betwe...

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8 minutes

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So. Here we are. I am currently arguing with an 8 foot long talking goldfish. You may be wondering how this happened, and you might be surprised to hear that it all started with a slice of chocolate cake. We'll get to all that later, but first I have to give you some background information, or this story will make about as much sense as... well... an 8 foot long talking goldfish. First off, my name is Arnold. I'm a freshman at Gordon High, but... Not to brag or anything, I'm kind of a genius. Anyways, I had this great idea for my science fai...

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Cursed Cake!

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I stared down at my plate, my stomach churning. I glanced around at the other people at the table with me, all letting out satisfied groans as they ate their share. at the sound of forks clanging against platters, scraping the last of the frosting off of porcelain, I broke into a cold sweat, my skin getting slippery under my thick dress. I nervously adjusted the crown on my head. Itched my jaw. Straightened my thick skirts. Glanced at the others. My eyes caught my plate again, my mouth filling with saliva, my eyes surely full of longing.My m...

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Dessert First

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The first sentence I remembered about food from childhood was, “You can’t have dessert before you eat dinner.” It was a parental conspiracy to ensure I filled up on vegetables, grains, and protein ever before I took one look at any modified, baked, refrigerated, molten form of sugar. I resented the hell out of anyone that ever said I couldn’t have my cake and eat it too. So the plan was simple: when I turned eighteen and my parents unleashed me upon the world with a fervent passion for corn syrup, frosting, and baked goodness, I would invers...

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The Bounce House

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“Use the Fork Luke” was written in red icing across the half-sheet chocolate cake that was decorated with plastic miniatures of X-Wing Fighters, the Millenium Falcon, and the Death Star. Having parents that were avid Star Wars fans made the inscription an inevitability. There had been much debate about which birthday would be “the” Star Wars birthday, but no debate that there would in fact be one. In the end it was market forces and Luke’s enthusiasm for Rey that decided the matter.For the group of young kids, the cake was a marvel to behold...

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Blood Circle

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Okay so I don’t wanna scare you, but I accidentally killed my mumma. It was an accident, but I mean, it kinda wasn’t. It was her own fault for sending me to first grade. And had the chocolate cake incident not been an incident in the first place, nothing bad would have happened. I don’t much like talking about it, but here we go.It all started my first day of first grade. I really didn’t want to go because the way Jay talked about it, it seemed really scary. He was now in third grade, and he made things sound even worse by telling me about B...

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The Wishing Chocolate Souffle

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The Wishing Chocolate Souffle The air was cold, a sure sign that autumn had arrived. The cool wind blew through Amy’ s red silk suit making her crave a good warm coffee, a cup that takes you a thousand miles away, and makes your taste buds light up with electric sensation, meanwhile, warming your body, that was the kind Amy was craving.  The office work had been jarring, a stabbing of teen, and the killer was insisting on temporary insanity. Amy was just elected New York’s DA and the job was slowly depleting her hope for huma...

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Dark Chocolate

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The oven was still warm. The kitchen smelled of rich, fragrant chocolate and a strange tinge of bitterness dusted the air. Dessert was quickly approaching as the sun finally set through the small kitchen window. She waited, one leg draped over the other, on the stool with excitement twisting her guts into a bow. Her apron was covered in flour, her fingers and wrists dotted with chocolate sauce, and her hair tied up with a black ribbon. A smirk played on her face, sweet to behold but chilling to experience.  “Fidela?” came a delicate voi...

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