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Write a story in the form of a recipe, menu, grocery list, or product description.

Posted in Short Story on Jun 6, 2025

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Grocery List

Submitted to Contest #306

Content Warning: This story contains potentially triggering material, and includes themes of mental health, poverty, and substance use (alcohol and cigarettes). Bread. I need to get bread. It's completely out. It's easy to make sandwiches when you can’t make anything else- but not if there's no bread to make them. What else do I need to get? My cupboards and fridge have been empty for too long. I can’t live on ketchup packets and corn tortillas. No. I need to brush my hair, find some decent clothes, and go to the store. Peanut Butter. Thank...

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Let's Be Careful Out There!

Submitted to Contest #306

TO: THE MANAGER DEPARTMENT OF DECORUMIMPORTANCE: HIGHPlease find attached document for your attention.INTERM REPORT:HEALTH AND SAFETY MONTHLY OVERVIEW.JUNE 2025.Four incidents were reported in the thirty-day period from June1 to 30, inclusive. These incidents ranged from SAC 2, minor-inconsequential, to SAC 10, moderate-precarious as per Chapman-Chilwell’s severity assessment code.Each incident is detailed below with remedial action required, recommendations, and/or advisories. June 2Dislocated shoulder: SAC 10.Subject A reported a mechanica...

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Recipe for a Body Built from the Ground Up

Submitted to Contest #306

Recipe for a Body Built from the Ground Up They’ll say it’s vanity.They’ll call it a phase.They’ll assume it’s about the mirror, the scale, the angles. But you know better. This is not about looking good in jeans. This is about peeling yourself off the bathroom floor after the breakdown and choosing—again—to try.It’s about reclaiming your body from the stress, the kids, the comments, the trauma.It’s about finally building a home you don’t want to escape from. So here it is: not a meal plan, not a miracle.Just a recipe—raw and real—for the wo...

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The SheSits™

Submitted to Contest #306

Introducing the newest innovation in technology after years of research and no peer reviews. Finally, a chair for her. The SheSits™. Why did we design this? Because apparently, regular chairs were too masculine, and women have suffered in silence long enough. After centuries and centuries of women sitting in chairs designed for men, the SheSits™ dares to ask: “What if a chair... had feelings?” Designed by a team of all-male engineers in a windowless office that smells like sweat, cologne and ego, the SheSits™ is the first chair that acknowle...

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Life's Long List of Groceries

Submitted to Contest #306

Prompt: Write a story in the form of a grocery list***Grocery List:5 TV dinners1 case of beer***Grocery List:5 TV dinners1 case of beer***Grocery List:4 TV dinners1 frozen pizza1 case of beer***Grocery List:1 box of cereal1 carton of milk1 box of spaghetti1 jar of spaghetti sauce, the red one4 TV dinners1 case of beer***Grocery List:1 box of cereal1 carton of milk1 box of spaghetti1 jar of spaghetti sauce, the green one1 package of hot dogs1 bag of hot dog buns1 bottle of ketchup2 TV dinners1 case of beer***Grocery List:1 box of cereal1 bag ...

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