Leigh Foster
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The Shutting Out
Poe has the key. Find her, Orion. It’s our only hope. Electra’s pen slipped on the page as the sound of boots came from below, hundreds of boots. She looked at the note in her hands and knew what she had to do. She uncapped a bottle of ink and poured it across the page where it obscured the words and settled in a black pool.
By Leigh Foster 5 years ago in Fiction
Seaweed Birthday Soup
In Korea, miyeok-guk (seaweed soup) is also known as birthday soup. It’s the first soup mothers are fed after giving birth, and it’s eaten every year afterward in remembrance. It’s a clear broth, heavy with seaweed and tiny pieces of beef. I grew up eating seaweed soup. My mother didn’t cook, but she did miss Korean food and would sometimes ask one of my Korean great-aunts to cook for us. I loved those meals. Often we would be too eager to take the soup to the table and would eat it standing in the kitchen, slurping up the hot salty liquid and slippery wakame. My mother would be there too, standing in her slippers and a bathrobe, making small noises of pleasure as she ate. It was one of my favorite things— watching her enjoy food. She spent a lot of my childhood on extreme diets, but she could never say no to seaweed soup.
By Leigh Foster 5 years ago in Feast
