He was almost done with the last batch of dried berries. He topped off each bag with extra dried blueberries. Those were finally starting to produce well, so he could be more generous with them.

Did you know that the ancients believed that the angels move the planets?” Nick turned to the man next to him and gave a bemused look. His friend and shipmate Tycho had always been an eccentric one.

Silence and Starsong presents the winning story for its November 2022 Flash Fiction Contest, “A Fast and a Feast” by …