100 Word Stories

Elroy bakes the best cakes in the city.

People would pay dearly for these works of art.

I once had the privilege to watch him in action... although it was hard to keep up with the blur of kitchen implements and cloud of ingredients whizzing around him.

What was most impressive was his mastery of icing cakes.

He showed me a bare cake, told me to try to eat it.

So, I put a fork in the side of it, and as I drew the fork to my mouth, that bit of cake was perfectly iced.

A magician, he was.