Cora and Thomas posed to cut their wedding cake, blinking in the flash of cameras and good wishes.
Mother – proud in heather tweed and pill box hat – rushed forward once the cutting was done, levered off the top layer of cake, icing swags calving on the Axminster.
A box was ready, lined with crisp white tissue. ‘For the christening,’ said Mother, beaming.
Decades later, when clearing her great aunt’s house, Cora’s niece found a tier of greyed cake nestled in yellowed tissue.
It was tossed in the bin with other items of little value.
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Written for Rochelle Wisoff-Field’s Friday Fictioneers. See here to join in the fun.
I couldn’t think of a story concerning plastic boxes, but the swagged curtains reminded me of white icing on a wedding cake, so that’s where I went.
Notes
Wedding Cake Tradition. Not sure if it still is, but it was once the tradition for couples to save the top tier of their wedding cake for their first child’s christening, see here.
Axminster is the name of the oldest surviving carpet manufacturers in the UK. When I was a kid, we could only dream of a real wool Axminster carpet. It was nylon all the way for us!
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