Review of Justine Gardner, “Are They Cake?,” Flash Fiction Online 129 (June 2024): 12-15 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.
Nothing like the combination of “cake” in the title and “horror” as the genre to get you into a state of “I have no idea what this story is going to be about”. The opening paragraph thrusts you straight into a dystopian version of the Great British Bake-Off, and you know nothing is going to go well — whether “they” are cake or not.
It’s hilarious — the sort of story that keeps you laughing just so that you don’t have to acknowledge the horror beneath it all.
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