Beware of Chicken
by CasualFarmer
Royal Road, 2021
Podium Publishing, 2022

A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming?

Beware of Chicken is a lighthearted fantasy isekai / Xianxia cultivation series originally published on Royal Road, where it is, in fact, still available. I am dubious about the 'laugh-out-loud' in the official blurb, and I have Things To Say about the current misuse of the term slice of life. It appears to be used by the weak of spirit and corrupt of mind (i.e., modern authors) to mean "the plot isn't fully centered on adventuring all the time". However, this story, along with approximately all other web-published SF/F that claim to be slice of life, is absolutely not slice of life. But anyway...

Our hero is a random, if surprisingly knowledgeable,

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PREP TIME: Five minutes

COOK TIME: Ten minutes

SERVES: 1

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup cider (soft or hard, your choice)

1/2  cup cranberry juice

1 tbsp cocoa powder

1/2 tbsp ground cinnamon

1 tbsp sour cream

1/8 tsp vanilla extract

1/8 tsp peppermint extract

DIRECTIONS:

1. Pour cider and

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