Mutant Tastes.
I plan to make the terrifying Schadenfreude Pie for Christmas dinner – if there were ever a better time for a pie composed entirely of sugar and fat, I don’t know it – and of course ran into manifold difficulties acquiring the ingredients.
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Scandalous Shopping
I feel sorry for small businesses who are being hit hard by the recession, but I'm not sure why I should feel worse for them than for their customers. Mortgage rates have gone up. People have much less to spend. So when I hear, "But people aren't spending enough on discretionary items!" I mentally translate it as, "But people are being financially responsible!"
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Karen Healey is a young adult novelist. She is the author of the urban fantasies GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD and THE SHATTERING, both set in New Zealand, and the forthcoming sci-fi adventure WHEN WE WAKE. GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD won the 2010 Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award. Karen can tell you a lot about baking, covers of "Hallelujah" and superhero comics.
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