{"id":3916,"date":"2012-07-08T20:50:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T01:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?page_id=3916"},"modified":"2012-07-08T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T01:50:49","slug":"cooking-and-dreams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?page_id=3916","title":{"rendered":"Cooking and Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe we\u2019ve been watching the Food Network too often. It\u2019s possible it was the feta cheese and pepperoni pizza we ate before going to bed. Or it could be that we just like thinking of weird topics to torture our writers with when it\u2019s confabulation week at the Cafe.<\/p>\n<p>This month, we\u2019re asking our writers to give us their best flash fiction on the topics of cooking and dreams. How these are included, however, is up to each individual writer. The stories we have to offer are a collection of good dreams, bad dreams, aquatic dreams, dreams of food, dream eaters, and dream makers.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, this collection of flash stories is likely to give our readers the munchies. So sit back, enjoy our tales, and dream.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mercury Beach (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/05\/mercury-beach-flash-fiction\/\">&#8220;Mercury Beach&#8221;<\/a> by Jack Campbell, Jr.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Living Memory (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/05\/living-memory-flash-fiction\/\">&#8220;Living Memory&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Larry Jenkins<br \/>\n<a title=\"Cauldron of Dreams (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/05\/cauldron-of-dreams-flash-fiction\/\">&#8220;Cauldron of Dreams&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Kevin Wohler<br \/>\n&#8220;Dreaming About Dinner&#8221;\u00a0by Sara Lundberg<br \/>\n<a title=\"The Dream Eaters (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/05\/the-dream-eaters-flash-fiction\/\">&#8220;The Dream Eaters&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by R.L. Naquin<br \/>\n<a title=\"Bad Dreams (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/05\/2982\/\">&#8220;Bad Dreams&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Muriel Green<br \/>\n<a title=\"Gravity (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/05\/gravity\/\">&#8220;Gravity&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Ted Boone<br \/>\n<a title=\"Ice Cream in an Age of Entropy (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/05\/ice-cream-in-an-age-of-entropy\/\">&#8220;Ice Cream in an Age of Entropy&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Angela Kordahl<br \/>\n<a title=\"If You Could Invite Anyone to a Dinner Party, Who Would You Ask? (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/if-you-could-invite-anyone-to-a-dinner-party-who-would-you-ask\/\">&#8220;If You Could Invite Anyone to a Dinner Party, Who Would You Ask?&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Jason Arnett<br \/>\n<a title=\"Burnt Lasagna Dreams (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/burnt-lasagna-dreams\/\">&#8220;Burnt Lasagna Dreams&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Amanda Jaquays<br \/>\n<a title=\"To Dream of Impossible Dreams (Flash Fiction)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/2012\/06\/to-dream-of-impossible-dreams\/\">&#8220;To Dream of Impossible Dreams&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0by Aspen Junge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe we\u2019ve been watching the Food Network too often. It\u2019s possible it was the feta cheese and pepperoni pizza we ate before going to bed. Or it could be that we just like thinking of weird topics to torture our writers with when it\u2019s confabulation week at the Cafe. This month, we\u2019re asking our writers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4513,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3916","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3916\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}