In a wide open field, a red Kelpie stands in the long grass and looks back over his shoulder at a South Asian man in his thirties, who stands smiling with his hands in his pockets, a slice of sponge cake on a napkin balanced on the gatepost beside him.

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The Oven Door

There’s a sponge in the oven and it’s going beautifully. You can see it rising through the glass. But guests are coming at four, so at ten minutes you open the door, to be sure. And again at fifteen. By twenty you have a warm, sad frisbee and a plan to call it a biscuit.

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