October Spice
By K.L. Noone
Monday afternoon, one week before Halloween, Evan Goldman regarded the cake. The cake regarded him right back, with fresh-baked optimism.
He thought this recipe would be a good one. Chocolate, whiskey, autumn spices. An experiment, but ideally a delicious one. A taste-test of his thoughts about the cake he’d be making for his best friend, a thank-you and conspiratorial excitement rolled into one.
Jeff, the best friend in question, was responsible for the financial half of the bakery’s success, and had turned Evan’s excitement about flavors and experimentation into an actual thriving well-organized business; Jeff, Evan knew, was planning to propose to his long-time partner on November first, as a surprise part of their birthday celebrations. Lindsay, the part
