“They grew a new veggie,” Jane announced excitedly. “It’s supposed to taste like fried chicken. Wanna go and try some?”

“And if it’s no good, we’ll get diarrhea again,” Clara replied dryly.

“Come on, that hasn’t happened since the eggplant incident. And they just didn’t boil the eggs long enough.”

Johanna B. Stumpf is a German millennial, living and working in Norway. She is fairly new to fiction writing, but she did enough academic writing to earn a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oslo.