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Write about two people who run rival bakeries, but fall in love during their town’s annual holiday festival.

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“For Ever, Sugar” by Alex Allison

The lanterns flickered their malevolent flames as Sugar beat the eggs into a foamy sea. The fire in the grate melted her aching muscles enough to continue working for the eleventh hour.Twenty-six years old and she was already exhausted, pink dress twirling between kitchen counters and cupboards. Her petticoats protected her modesty and the pencil holding her savory colored hair protected the food from contamination.She'd baked enough bread, on to the biscuits.'You work too hard...' Bailey chimed as he grabbed his jack...

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“Fool’s Tears (A Touch of Cinnamon Part 2) ” by Nainika Gupta

*Nainika’s note* It is OK to hate Morgan. (like more than ok to hate him) He's an arse. But I haven’t ever written a story from a…villain? I’m gonna call him a villain because he deserves it…but I’ve never written a short story from a nasty person’s perspective, so I hope it’s turned out good!! Also, I included A TON of background information about the setting, so this story is a teensy bit wordier than what I n...

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“Unfinished Business” by Deidra Lovegren

Five days after Yom Kippur, David Jacob Tomaschewitz counted on Sukkot’s challah sales to ensure his foundering bakery made a profit for the year. Although business had been brisk for Rosh Hashanah, the weekly sales of his bread for Shabbat had consistently diminished as other Jewish bakeries in Boca Raton had far more offerings—cookies! pastries! cakes!—than his meager shop. David’s father had opened the bakery decades prior, making only traditional Jewish breads, including mountains of bagels his loyal customers bought by th...

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“Need A Therapist?” by Orenda .

It was almost unfair to know that he owned a bakery and that HIS customers lionized him. What was she supposed to do? Celebrate and pop a champagne? Or flip her hair on his face and walk down the street with her heels (as high as her ego) click-clacking against the gravel? With a cup of brewed latte in her hand, Winona stared out into the window of her Nemesis’s bakery. Ryū’s bakery looked... pretentious. Like him. He put far too much effort into achieving a dashing countenance. In his bakery, huge...

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“Rivalry turns into love” by 🕊 🎀 𝒱𝒶𝓇𝓈𝒽𝒶 𝒱𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓁 🎀 🕊

Olivia“Calm down Olivia, we aren’t out of business... yet,” My most trusted assistant Roberta assured me. She pushed a strand of her black hair off her face as she noted me, I walked back and forth, worrying make my face wrinkle with depression. “Calm down, calm down?” I screeched at her, Roberta was too young to understand my dilemma, I might go out of business in less than a week if I don’t pay the rent for my bakery soon enough.“Olivia…” She stood in front of me, blocking my way and placed her hand on my ...

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“Chocolate kisses: a poetry-verse love story” by Emmie Greensgate 🏗🔚🔚👫

Ellen twirls down the stairs, carrying a tray of crossants, her cropped, silky blond hair and diamond-blue eyes shining. She's like the Ellen DeGenres of baking. She has the same first name after all. Same eyes. But her hair is softer and prettier, and she is younger. She is dressed in a black and white dress, with a wide skirt...

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“Romi and Julie” by Raquel Rodriguez

“Macarons, macarons! Get the most delectable macarons in town here!” Julie says, a huge grin on her face.  People smile at her as they pass, and some stop to buy some cookies and macarons.    “We have delicious butter cookies, fresh out of the oven!” I avoid the glare Julie gives me and turn the other way.  “Hey, Romi!”  I roll my eyes. “Please don’t-” My eyes widen as I turn my head to see Rosalie waving at me. “Oh! Hey, what’s...

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“False Love ” by Palak Shah

The meadow meandered in all ways that are soft to the breeze, the green flowing in bonny waves as any river would be proud to do. There is a casual grace to the meadow, as if it has a peripheral awareness of its own beauty yet would rather be at peace in this warm sun. From the rich brown earthen hues of the ground to the sweetness of the blue-white sky, the meadow is a three dimensional wonderland for the eyes that are ...

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“Feel Like Baking Love” by Joshua Insole

The lights of Nocte Urbis flashed red, green and gold. A few of them were icicle-blue, a purplish sheen imbued with the frost. The crowd shuffled in the snow — hats on heads, scarves around necks, mittens on hands. The flakes fell with relaxed ease — they were in no rush, they had all the time in the world. Mayor Frank gripped the podium, the bolts in his neck replaced with striped candy canes. “Ladies an...

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“A Bakers Chance” by Beth Connor

Merek was an ordinary man. He woke each morning before dawn and made his way to the miller’s home, gathering the grains he would need for the day. Then with his heavy sacks, he would stride up the hill to the massive outdoor oven near Lord Ulric’s home.  When he arrived at his workspace, the apprentice boys had already finished cleaning the stove and adding the fresh coals to the oven for today’s batch of bread. Merek would combine his ingredients, humming softly to himself as he kneaded the smooth do...

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“Italian Scallions ” by Joe D

Anthony looked down at the charred crust of his latest pizza. He took another bite opposite the burnt end and evaluated the flavor. Take the temp down about five degrees, he wrote in his notebook. Change the schedule to have the birch wood go in every ninth pizza. Put the first two rounds of mozzarella on cheese cloth. Anthony put down his pen and looked up at the afternoon sky. The clo...

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“Bridging the Divide” by Philip Clayberg

The Dandridge community center was more crowded that it'd been in a long time. And not just because Christmas was in a week. There was an excited buzz in the audience until the mayor stepped onto the stage, took the microphone from its stand, and raised her hand.“May I please have your attention,” she said. “Excuse me, if I may please have your attention.”The buzz ebbed into respectful silence.“Thank you,” she said. “As you all know, with the end of the pandemic, we've had little time ...

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“Gloriously Glazed” by Zoé Nöel Lemieux

*Author’s note: contains use of alcohol and adult language* “Get your ass in here Connor Henderson!” Father yelled from the storage room.  “Coming Father.” I catch my mother’s gaze. She’s serving another customer at the counter, so I signal that I’m heading to the storeroom and she nods. Father probably needs help with another sack of flour. You’d think after working in a bakery for your whole life, you’d have the strength to lift bulk bags of flour, but for my father, that’s not the case.Ou...

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“Stars All the Way Through” by Aqsa Malik

The stars are red today. Speckled far enough not to touch each other, but close enough to fit onto the jet black abyss of a cookie surface. “Perfect,” I mooned, admiring my own handiwork, less concerned about the taste and more so about the appearance I had been trying to perfect for ages.  “Really? Looks like blood mixed in with tar to me,” his smell wafted over first, somehow ev...

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“The Fruit Bakery ” by Lilah Blackburn

     There once were two bakeries. They had been rivals since they were built back in the 1700s. Now it is 2020 and they are still adversaries. The two bakeries are called Blueberry Bakery and Strawberry Bakery. They both were known for their fruit flavored pastries. The two bakeries both had a 17 year old child in the family that currently governed the bakery. The Blueberry Bakery had a boy named Scott. And the Strawber...

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