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title: The Spice Market
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date: 2020-07-14 01:00:01 -0500
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teaser: A story about discovering new tastes, and the blooming of commerce.
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If a room could breathe, this one would be dragon’s fire. Not that dragons existed, but Amaya had heard enough stories about them from the northern merchants that she felt as if she could draw them from description alone.

It was the kind of heat you could taste on the tip of your tongue, as you flicked it around your mouth hoping to manufacture some moisture.
<commit_msg>post story<commit_after>---
layout: story
category: short story
issue: 81, July 2020
issue-cover: issue-81-cover.png
issue-buy-link:
title: The Spice Market
subtitle:
author: sangeetha-thanapal
author-2:
author-3:
editor: l-d-lewis
illustrator:
copyeditor: chelle-parker
selector:
translator:
narrator: victor-ramos
letterer:
date: 2020-07-14 01:00:01 -0500
permalink: the-spice-market
audiourl: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/firesidemagazine/The_Spice_Market.mp3
teaser: A story about discovering new tastes, and the blooming of commerce.
art:
artcaption:
spanish-language:
spanish-date:
english-url:
spanish-url:
serial-name:
serial-url:
part:
previous-url:
next-url:
contentnote:
generalnote:
published: true
---

If a room could breathe, this one would be dragon’s fire. Not that dragons existed, but Amaya had heard enough stories about them from the northern merchants that she felt as if she could draw them from description alone.

It was the kind of heat you could taste on the tip of your tongue, as you flicked it around your mouth hoping to manufacture some moisture.

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