Food Stylist

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Glycerin

I can make any plate look delicious. Almost none of it is safe to eat. They hired me to style real meals for real dying people, no tricks. I kept swapping their food for my perfect fakes.

Movement one.

I am the best food stylist in the city.

Clients fight over me.

My plates glow.

My secret is motor oil for syrup, glue for milk, glycerin for dew, hairspray for shine, plastic where fruit should rot.

I control every shoot.

I cannot let an ugly true plate be photographed.

Crews resent my speed and my grip on the frame.

The work always wins, so they swallow it.

Movement two.

A hospice brand hires me for one rule: real food, real residents, shot as they actually eat.

No tricks.

B, the art director, stakes his name on me and on that rule.

I try.

The honest food looks gray on camera.

I cannot stand it.

I start small.

A glycerin sheen here.

A flawless hero plate kept just for the wide shot, edible plate marked and set aside.

The campaign explodes.

People weep at the honesty of it.

I rise.

Each lie buys a better image, so I tell a bigger one.

Then C, a resident, reaches past the marked plate and eats from my lacquered prop.

I see it.

I say nothing.

I fix the light instead.

C gets sick that night.

Movement three.

The footage is too beautiful to bury, and the brand goes viral for its truth.

Then the poisoning surfaces.

I could blame the crew that trusted me.

Instead the brand offers one last shoot to save its face, and I build the most perfect, most fake recovery plate of my life, on camera, certain I can carry it.

The lens catches my hands loading the trick.

My gift is the evidence.

The control that made me great is the thing that drops me.

Last frame: me alone, plating something flawless that no one will ever be allowed to eat.