Every Friday morning patrons packed Mrs. Cook’s study. She’d serve them sponge cake, but not without sharing the ingredients first: Sally’s rejection, Mary’s offer, George’s pauperism. Delicious, they’d quip, giggling wildly.
But this week, her patrons’ persnickety appetites grumbled as she baked something never served before: a dense humble pie.
Maja Scheler’s debut Flash Fiction, Exposed, received runner up in Women On Writing’s 2018 fall contest. When she is not working on a story, she can be found chasing after her three young boys in the beautiful outdoors of the Pacific Northwest.
I had breakfast at Mrs. Cook’s once, ages ago, before she had so finely honed her craft. She served us up some full-of-baloney quiche and a side of that’s-what-she-said sausage with a pitcher of I’m-fully-toasted martini flavored margaritas to wash it all down.
Glad to hear she’s still in business.
You write her well.
Well written. Very good.