A Recipe for Desire: Hummingbird Cake and Other Ways to Get to Heaven

In my flash fiction piece, “A Recipe for Desire,” which appears in Arts & Letters (Fall 2022), a 12-year-old daughter asks her mother to teach her to make a Hummingbird Cake after a long time of asking. What she’s yearning for is to know the taste of desire.

Now I’m here to tell you this cake is the perfect expression of every desire you ever had…