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Cookie of Chances (Otherwise Untitled)

Story by Moriar on SoFurry

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#210 of Short Stories

A meerkat bakes.

~ The meerkat gazed into the oven, and despaired. The baking pan, now somehow tarnished to a soft blue tint from the heat, bore a dozen objects that she'd hoped would become cookies during their time therein.

~ More than half of them were now crunched and burnt, cracks cutting deeply across their widths to spread into branching lacerations.

~ Most of the remaining half appeared to have, by some unknown and arcane mechanism, melted.

~ Amidst the sea of failed bakery, a single cookie appeared to have formed from dough. It shimmered softly in the heat of the oven, and the meerkat knew it was a trap.

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