The Way The Cookie Crumbles

First Place, Horror, Olive Woolley Burt Award
What happens when your best friend takes the fortune cookie you earmarked for yourself? Probably nothing unless it's from the famed Kyoto Tea Room where the walls are covered with newspaper clippings dating back over a century detailing the "proof" these cookies actually do what they say—fuel your success or spark your destruction. Your friend took your cookie. Would you stand for that? (This story has been published in the Heritage Writer's Guild Anthology.)