“You know what’s wrong with this meringue?” the food critic spouted after three spoonfuls.
The chef did.
Not enough arsenic.
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300 stories 
smiling out loud
Awesome! The stories keep getting better and better! 😀
Ah, good old arsenic. Nice to know that even the digital age writers are loyal to it. :>
Haha! I guess a proper amount of arsenic would compensate for taste flaws.
Clever, clever!
Love it, my kind of story!
Is that it? Just 3 lines?
When you say ‘300 words or less’, you aren’t kiddling about the ‘or less’ part are you? Must be pretty unusual for the title to be roughly 50% of the story length. But then, less is more (except with arsenic).
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