A Recipe for Life, A Tonic for Grief was originally published in the May 13th 2024 issue of Strange Horizons and is read by Emmie Christie. You can read the full story here. Content Warnings: Animal cruelty/death Blood Cancer Death/dying Drug use Chris is a palliative care physician by day and a writer by night. He is a dad (cat and human), by his back-of-the-napkin calculations, approximately 32 hours a day. His short fiction has appeared in Galaxy’s Edge, Zooscape, and Stupefying Stories. Find him on Bluesky at chrisblake.bsky.social Emmie Christie has narrated the sci-fi novel "Amaranth Chronicles: Deviant Rising" for Audible and other short stories. She has also been published in Flash Fiction Online, Infinite Worlds Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction. You can find her work on her website or follow her on Twitter/X @EmmieChristie33.