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Beverly Zielonko

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Aug 4, 2024, 2:21:02 PM8/4/24
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Oneday, his luck turns for the worst when his 8 year old step-sister wrongly accuses him of rape and his step-mother beats him up. Unable to defend himself, he runs away and finds refuge at the bakery. He discovers that the baker is a wizard, and the shop assistant with blue hair no ordinary girl. The bakery prepares cakes with special powers and sells them through a website. The boy becomes wizardbakery.com webmaster and gets familiar with the strange product list.

Each pastry was listed online with a close-up image, partial list of ingredients, and the effect it would have on whoever consumed it. The last line was an elaborate list of possible side effects. After the product details section was a review section where people rated and commented on the products. There were stories of people who bought these pastries just for fun and were pleasantly surprised, whether the intended effect was a coincidence or the result of a heartfelt wish. Most products had been given three and a half to four out of five stars.


Depending on the spell, if you eat this before going to bed, your doppelgnger will go to school or work in your place the next morning. Kick back and relax at home, or play hooky somewhere. Please note that you must never show up at school or work to make sure that your doppelgnger is really filling in for you. If people see the two of you together or if you make eye contact with your doppelgnger, one of you will disappear forever. Guess which one.


The changes that take place as a consequence of your wish, whether positive or negative, affect the order of the physical and metaphysical world. Therefore, do not forget the magical forces you used today may circle back to you some day to return the favor.


The overwhelming majority of our clientele were teenage girls deeply interested in tarot readings and fortune telling based on blood type. The next largest group were women in their twenties. And then there were also the occasional male clients from all age groups and people in their fifties, although those were probably cases of identity theft.


The oven led to a cave of unending darkness. I could simply curl up instead of crawling forward and still be devoured by the darkness. I wandered further in, not knowing whether it was safe. I had no choice.


If I kept going, would I end up in some place I once saw in a movie? Like Narnia on the other side of the wardrobe, with its thick, magnificent, medieval forest, white snow no one in the world has ever trod upon, talking animals, centaurs, vines that coil around everything within reach, people made of sand?


I heard him close the door with an unfeeling clank behind my hunched back. I closed my eyes and felt my way forward. Instead of an empty space of boundless depth, I felt something hard as glass against my hands. I pushed and saw another space open up before my eyes.


On the other side of the wall was a luxurious bed like Scheherazade would have lain upon to serve the king in Arabian Nights, and a desktop computer with a 21-inch LCD monitor in a quaint, polished antique design frame. The entire wall to the left was taken up by a heavy, solid-looking, built-in walnut bookcase. The shelves were mostly filled with old hardback books that had what may have been Latin or Hebrew titles on the spines, but there were a few with English or Korean titles.


Once I accepted what I saw, I was able to guess what the large circular diagram on the floor with straight and curved lines must be. It was a magic circle. There was a small six-pointed star inside a larger twelve-pointed star, and an inscription in the spaces between the lines that appeared to be Hebrew and some mathematical equations. Two large concentric circles framed the entire thing.


My knowledge of this storyline did not stop me from reaching for the drawer handle like a by-the-book fairytale character. The second my hand touched the handle, the bird who was quietly perched on top of the cuckoo clock flew down and slapped my hand with her wing.


The potion seeped into the cotton and stung my hand. When he removed the cotton, the stinging stopped and my hand was healed. From then on, I was ready to be unsurprised by anything else that happened here.


He held my chin with two fingers and moved it left and right to collect my tears. He was as swift as a nurse drawing blood. On the one hand, I had a feeling he was making fun of me, but I was also grateful that I was too baffled to cry anymore.


His words were cold and businesslike, but the blanket over my shoulders was fluffy and soft, and the potion in my hand was warm. I sincerely wanted to be of use to the baker instead of just being taken in like a stray dog. But what use would a wizard like him have for a child like me?


Read another story about foods with powerful effects: Musician Michelle Zauner (of Japanese Breakfast) writes in The New Yorker about missing her mother while shopping in an Asian supermarket. (This essay later became a memoir, which you can watch the author discussing in a video with 3rd Place Books.)

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