This story is now published as part of the anthology ‘Loyal and True’.
Everyone loves pasta.
So when the challenge went out, Javier Wafford knew what he had to do.
The newly minted millionaire Reyes Armillei had offered a prize of half a million dollars to the person who could develop a food that would feed large populations, would not take up a lot of space and be cheap and easy to manufacture.
Reyes had been sitting on the idea since he was in high school and now was the time to turn it into a small fortune and help the world all at the same time.
The idea was simple as all great ideas are but there were a few bugs to iron out and that’s where his cousin Eric came in. Eric’s skill was turning great ideas into concrete objects.
The breakthrough came when Eric suggested blotting paper.
They embedded the blotting paper with uncooked pasta and dried it at a certain temperature which they would not disclose.
The precise temperature was necessary to make the sheets almost flat thereby making them easy to store and to transport.
Drop them into boiling salty water and the pasta grew and cooked all in the one process.
It was delicious as well.
All of the entrants in the competition were amazing but pasta you could shove under a door was always going to win.
Javier Wafford gave some of the money to his cousin Eric and the rest he invested in a blotting paper factory.
Most of my readers are handsome and or pretty, intelligent, well read, occasionally sober, arbiters of good taste and they always read the tags and or category so they know that it is fiction………….. they do don’t they?
Every now and then I get a strange comment (not yours of course) that leads me to believe that possibly they might think I’m serious all the time.
I just had a vision of someone trying this idea………… now you’ve got me worried.
Terry
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Love it!
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Thank you, as always you are very kind.
Terry
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Haha! IOf course I am wondering how many of your readers actually used blotting paper.
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Most of my readers are handsome and or pretty, intelligent, well read, occasionally sober, arbiters of good taste and they always read the tags and or category so they know that it is fiction………….. they do don’t they?
Every now and then I get a strange comment (not yours of course) that leads me to believe that possibly they might think I’m serious all the time.
I just had a vision of someone trying this idea………… now you’ve got me worried.
Terry
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I’ve definetly made pasta that turned into a concrete idea…
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and usually when you are really hungry
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