The fine people of Purple Toga Publications are proud to announce that our latest anthology – Feast or Famine? – is now available!

This is a delectable and delightful collection of delicious short stories exploring how core is food to the human experience. The anthology collects some established and new indie voices, ranging from fantasy to science fiction, from horror to fairy-tales.

We’ve had an amazing turn-out, and it was a real challenge to select just the very best. The stories are thematically alternating between feasts and famines (though leaning on the former). All stories are accompanies by recipes, although readers are advised that we take no responsibility of the results; some may be delicious, others may unleash pestilence.

Here is the full table of contents, to whet your appetite:

The Egyptians Got It Wrong – Assaph Mehr —3
The Stew – Harley Carnell —8
Soup Invention – Christine Emmert —22
White Chocolate Coconut Cake – Margret Treiber —31
Spring Harvest – Darren Todd —42
The Purge – Spencer Keene —54
The Vegan Meatlover – Amber Parkes, John Owens, and Rowena Parkes —63
What’s For Dinner? – Andy Zach —82
Last Meal Diner – Harley Carnell —97
Brisbane Belly Buster – Ross Baxter —112
Family Tree – Christine Wolfram —126
Feed, Nourish – Joyce C Mandrake —140
Meridati Clinic’s Birthday Vigil – Virgo Kevonté —162
Appetite Displacement – Charles Walter —181
On the Life of the Cinderella who lost her Princes and Other Musings – Jennifer McArdle —195
How to get a Yak out of the Airlock – Eric Klein —217
Lemon Pound Cake – Emily A. Grigsby —229
100 Years of Custard – Daniel Lukes —243
Nourishing the Shadows – Laura J. Campbell —263
Rabbit Stew – Assaph Mehr —283
Tavern Testimonials – E. D. Edwards —306
Red Riding Wolf – Assaph Mehr —331
The Descendent – C. W. Stevenson —338
Charlie and the Chocolate Feast – Reut Barak —353
The Goat – Ulff Lehman —365
Season of the Slumwort – Gareth D Jones —382
Stench – Assaph Mehr —403
Community – Scott Branchfield —422
Down on the Farm – Andy Zach —436
Nostalgia – John-Paul Coté —446
The Famine – B. E. Zemlá —455

For the sharp-eyed among you, yes, I have 4 submissions in there. I’m just as food-obsessed as Felix (write what you know, and all that). Those include:

• The Egyptians Were Wrong, the flash fiction result of reading too widely
• Red Riding Wolf, because everyone deserves a voice
• Rabbit Stew, a new Jack police file, somewhere between Monty Python and A Night in the Museum
• Stench, the first new Felix mystery in 5 years!

But really, all are excellent and worth the read. If you like food, and who doesn’t, go explore it across the pages of this massively mesmerising collection!