Candy Comfort

Toasted Cake 203: Candy Comfort by Eleanor R. Wood

Episode #203! In which we chase the sugar.

When I was little, I never thought about where the sweets came from.

This story first appeared in Daily SF.

Eleanor R. Wood's stories have appeared in over a dozen venues, including Pseudopod, Flash Fiction Online, Deep Magic, Daily Science Fiction, Galaxy's Edge, and the Aurealis-nominated anthology Hear Me Roar. She is an associate editor at PodCastle, where she gets to feed dragons and read a lot. She writes and eats liquorice from the south coast of England, where she lives with her husband, two marvellous dogs, and enough tropical fish tanks to charge an entry fee. She blogs at creativepanoply.wordpress.com.

Original airdate: December 9, 2018