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Cards, Mirrors & Spices

Submitted to Contest #71

The face in the mirror was not her own. It was harsher, her eyes were smaller and her skin was wrinkled. She saw what would become of her is she did nothing. Out at sea, she had dreamt for her to disappear, kneeling down on the church bench, she prayed for her to leave and vanish and late at night, in her dearest and most precious dreams, she had wished for her cousin to simply die. Willa was the daughter of a gifted apothecary and only heir to her mother's kingdom. She came from a long generation of silver-haired daughters who ruled the fog...

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Bakery Break-In

Submitted to Contest #71

"Layla, can you pass me the flour please?" Janet said. It was 3:00 in the afternoon at Sweet Treats Cafe. People were rushing in just to get one little lick of those beautiful cakes. 4:00 PM is usually when people start clamoring in, but they were an hour early! "Will everyone form a line please? I don't need another cake incident like yesterday." Janet informed. "And everyone stop fighting!" It got quiet in the bakery so Layla put some Christmas music on. People were either bopping to the beat or just dancing. "Thank you Layla." Janet wh...

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Jadivolett and the Egg Thief

Submitted to Contest #71

It was two days before the Festival of Winter Winds as Jadivolett and Tiego broke camp. The annual festival marked the change in seasons from autumn to winter and was held to honor Olentar the Wind God. The first rays from Ottbof the Sun God crested over the horizon, burning away the morning chill as Tiego packed up the last of their belongings. Jadivolett knelt, the Sun God at her back, and held her holy symbol between her hands. Turning her emerald green eyes to the northwest, she prayed to Olentar. When she was finished, Tiego handed Jadi...

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A Record-Breaking Bake In Proud Poteet

Submitted to Contest #71

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 The coloured bunting stretched as far as the eye could see in all directions, fluttering gently in the light breeze. The Poteet Strawberry Festival was being held in just over a week from today, and the authorities had been very busy this week, putting up all of the decorations along Main Street. The delicious smells of baking floated out through the open door of the Bakery and up the street, filling the noses of passers-by. As the residents of the small Texan town of Poteet approached Bella's Bakery, the sounds of ...

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The Biggest Cookie

Submitted to Contest #71

“This was it. I could practically taste the sweet victory. My sister and I were just about to set a new record for the largest cookie ever. How, you ask?” “I didn’t say anything.” “I’d love to explain.” The strange boy continued as if I hadn’t said a thing. Or rather, as if I had said a different thing. “Of course, baking a huge cookie was tricky because the oven wasn’t big enough, and it took so long to mix up all the dough that it was hard to make sure the first batch was still good by the time the fiftieth one was ready to join the gr...

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Alice Pritchard and the Case of the Broken-In Bakery

Submitted to Contest #71

Footsteps vibrated against the marble walls and bounced back towards the cobblestone street. Three figures appeared round the corner - two policemen with a young man in handcuffs were striding towards the police station. The handcuffed man was in his early twenties, with wavy blonde hair that dropped down till his shoulders. His eyes were brimming with tears, and he was trying his hardest not to break free of the firm policemen who were seizing him. 'For the thousandth time, I'm innocent,' he said in a trembling voice, shivering all over. 'S...

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The Spritzlenugan

Submitted to Contest #71

Marcella was seven years old the first time she got to bake with her Ome. She was so happy to be spending the whole weekend in Ome's little cabin in the mountains. It was her favorite place to be. Ome loved to bake. Her cabin always smelled so good. When you walked in the door, you could always smell the cinnamon, and vanilla, or chocolate. Mmm...she thought, I want to be a great baker like Ome someday. Ome let Marcella crack the eggs, and measure the ingredients. She learned so much from her. The best part of getting to help was licking...

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Meg's Crazy Cookie Project

Submitted to Contest #71

Meg's Crazy Cookie Project Suzanne Marsh Trinity, Texas 2000 "This meeting will now come to order. The first order of business on our agenda is the 4H horse barn. The horse barn desperately needs to be replaced, it is beyond hammer and nail repair it has been for several years now. Since no bank is willing to touch the repairs our only alternative is to raise one hundred thousand dollars for a new barn, that is not inclusive of labor and materials. Does anyone have any suggestions?" Meg thought for several minutes; she remembered reading abo...

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Baked in Sugar, Spice, And A Splash Of Villainy

Submitted to Contest #71

Vivian, more formally known as Lady Treason stepped out on to her front entrance to greet her guests. Her name, Lady Treason had nothing to do with her power, the ability to manipulate things, objects, time, people, but rather had everything to do with the fact that her many villainous acts were considered treasonous in several countries.          She smiled. But that was just the way she liked it. “Phobus!” She called to her henchman. In a second, he came trudging out of her kitchen.   ...

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The cookie exchange

Submitted to Contest #71

The date was coming in close for the 5th annual cookie exchange for the Drury Street neighborhood. The tradition started when the HOA decided that it would be great for all of the neighbors to communicate and start new friendships with the exchange of cookies. The Sampson family was going to bring in the same cookies that they have baked for the past four cookie exchanges, snickerdoodle cookies. Mrs. Sampson was the cook of the Sampson family and always made delicious cookies for the neighborhood, but she didn’t bake the cookies just for the...

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the missing ingredient

Submitted to Contest #71

It was a lovely morning a day like any other when margareta opened her bakery, and in less than 5 minutes the bakery was clouded with clients and Alfredo wasn't there. clients shouting, "I need two gingersnap cherry cheesecakes." "I want the famous flute gana." Margareta was pressured and was trying to get all the orders right, and just as she was about to put the gingersnap cake in the oven Alfredo appeared. Margareta said, "Alfredo where have you been? give me a  hand." Alfredo said, "Alright alright, I'm here aren't I." Margareta sai...

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Breaking News

Submitted to Contest #71

"Breaking news! Breaking news! This just in, a bakery has reported a robbery. Nothing valuable seems to have been stolen, only their secret ingredient," The reporter takes a breath and looks off into the distance. What is he looking at?"What will happen to the Colossal Croissants?" The tv screen goes black. I turn."Now, now Ambar," It's my mother, "You know not to watch the news. It's all negative stuff,""But mum didn't you hear?" She looks at me with half interested eyes, "The Colossal Croissants bakery's secret ingredient has been stolen. ...

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Missing Cane

Submitted to Contest #71

  The blustery winds of Jordero north pound with fifty to sixty mile per hour winds and pelt the landscape with freezing rain. An Inuk male dwarf with an ice brown beard and hair and wearing a polar bear fur jacket escorts Merrill Brillcrek, the Judiciary Provost Marshal of the Jordero Fort Kapaka into the local bakery. Merrill a white man with shaggy brown hair and a Five o clock shade beard and wearing a similar dress as the Inunk dwarf is taken to the local grocer and baker of Fort Kapaka. “Beatrice always panics when she is missing ...

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Love

Submitted to Contest #71

My name is Hope Hope Adams. I'm sixteen years old. I go to Eagle high but that’s not what I'm here to talk to you about. What I am here to talk to you about is my. Secret my deep dark secret I'm in love with my best friend but he is dating my sister.  I know that Joe doesn't like me and that I have no chance with him  but I love him. I love him so much I just had to try. I got the iea a few weeks ago to hold a cookie exchange for Joe and my family. "Hey Hope" I hear Joe say he jogged over to me and wrapped his arms around my waist....

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Grand Cookie

Submitted to Contest #71

Nishant and Ravi run Guru Cookies and Fast Food Centre, a fast food and confectionery eatery point in Chandigarh. Their shop was started by their father in 1978.Now the two brothers have taken the charge of the shop with their father too helping out occasionally.  Last month Ravi came across an add in Facebook in which there was a mention about a Cookie making competition in London, United Kingdom where the biggest cookie would be awarded with ten thousand pounds reward. Together with it they would get an international recognition from ...

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