I Read Stories: The Aftertastes by Daria Lavelle

The Aftertastes by Daria Lavelle in The Deadlands

In the afterlife there is a food hall. To enter the kingdom you have to forget and to one way is find the memories through food. The right food is a tether back to life, to cheat death. But the food hall of the afterlife is infinite so to find the right food – if you even know what it is, if you even know what your memory is is, if you even accept the premise, that might be impossible.

Is this contradictory? Do you want this to make sense? You want death to be coherent? You want food to be explicable?

One day a chef dies whose cooking is sublime and maybe, maybe something will change.

Read This: For the deep connections between life, death, food and memory
Don’t Read This: A food hall in the afterlife?