An inventor creates a device intended to help people with a sweet tooth eat their vegetables, but the prototype has an unintended effect.
Music: “Ground Control” by Andrea Baroni
Video description
Video Description: “The Cauliflower Cake Faker” Trailer. Duration, 39 seconds. “Ground Control” by Andrea Baroni. Digital drawing. A split screen image of a man sitting behind a plain tabletop looking down at a plate of food. His forearms lie on the table with hands resting beside the plate. On the left side, the man’s mouth is open with teeth clenched. One brow is raised, the other pinched. His eyes are narrowed. On the plate are cauliflower florets. On the right side, the man’s mouth is open in a wide smile. His brows are raised and eyes more open. On the plate is a lava cake with chocolate “lava” spilling from an open side. Peeking behind the cake is a scoop of coffee-colored ice cream. Watermark of the work “Storyfeather” along upper right sleeve of the man on right. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Science Fiction,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “An inventor finds a way for a human to spawn a multitude of progeny at once, and soon realizes that she must stop her own monstrous invention.” Lines from the story appear in sequence at center and bottom: “What’s my motivation for putting that retainer from a horror movie against my precious and delicate palate? …lava cake with a scoop of coffee ice…What are you calling it? …the oral consumption multi-sensory-modality experiential converter. The things I do for friendship.” Site URL appears at bottom center throughout and fades at end. As the last line disappears, the story title appears at center, and a text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now.”
Welcome to Year 10 of Storyfeather
Every year’s short stories (mostly) follow a theme. For Year Ten, every month’s stories share a genre or theme, some anchor point that the reader can rely on. But within that, there are strange concoctions brewing. The genre’s merge, archetypes collide, mythologies mash…welcome to the Year of Fusion.
February Base Element:
🍕🍓 FOOD-UARY! 🍰🍫
FUSION RECIPE
Base element for February: Food!
Fusion Element: Back Scratcher
This story was inspired by my watching of many how-to videos for dessert recipes, alongside a debunking of “healthy” dessert trends. The fusion element I threw into the mix didn’t make it into the story directly, but inspired the brainstorming of potential solutions to the problem that inevitably arose with the experimental prototype of a device intended to make vegetables taste like cake. So either it doesn’t work, or it does…or it works too well. What does that mean? And how does the inventor try to “fix” the issue? Hint: they use a classic trope.
How I did the digital drawing for my fairy tale story, “The Cauliflower Cake Faker,” from a sketch to the final image.
Video Description
Video description: Drafting of story image from Sketch to Final. Horizontal rectangle within square with lightbox background. Duration, 20 seconds. Digital drawing. A split screen image of a man sitting behind a plain tabletop looking down at a plate of food. His forearms lie on the table with hands resting beside the plate. On the left side, the man’s mouth is open with teeth clenched. One brow is raised, the other pinched. His eyes are narrowed. On the plate are cauliflower florets. On the right side, the man’s mouth is open in a wide smile. His brows are raised and eyes more open. On the plate is a lava cake with chocolate “lava” spilling from an open side. Peeking behind the cake is a scoop of coffee-colored ice cream. Text at top reads “Digital Drawing for Short Story.” A fade animation displays an airbrush sketch of a seated human figure at right. The words “Sketch to Final Drawing” appears at top right. All the text and the final image fade to show the full starting sketch. The video then transitions through several images showing the sketching of the two figures and the plates of food; then the inking, the laying down of base colors, the addition of a color gradient as a background, and finally, the addition of shadows, highlights, and textures to arrive at the final image. The story title, “The Cauliflower Cake Faker” appears at top. A watermark of “Storyfeather.com” appears at bottom center throughout.
Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Barry, Cake, Carlos, Cauliflower, Coffee Ice Cream, Converter, Device, Lava Cake, Sensory, Vegetables
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