The Baker

A Short Story by Silent Songbird

Once upon a time, a young lady was baking in her kitchen. She loves baking. One day, she realizes that maybe she should share her love of baking. She bakes a nice apple pie and then puts in front of her house, hanging the sign "free pie". People come around, they taste the pie and they LOVE it! She feels flattered and happy that people love her baking, and she feels good that she fed some people. So, the next day, she bakes some more. More people come for the free pie, and they love it even better. This goes on, she bakes, they come, they eat, she feels good and they feel good.

Then one day, she decides to mix it up. She bakes cupcakes and muffins instead of pie.

The people... They lose their shit.

"Oh my God! Why the hell did you make cupcakes?"

"You had something good here and you ruined it!"

"You can't bake for shit! This is shit! Kill yourself for making this."

Baffled by the vehemence of the people, she goes back to making her free pie and giving it out once more. Sent thinks, maybe it was a mistake to make cupcakes. That won't happen again. Except, it does. The people lose their shit again. This time, she didn't even have to change her bakery.

"Ugh, there's too much sugar in this. "

"Damn it, there's not enough sugar in this!"

"The pie crust is missing! I thought you knew how to bake?"

What had started as a hobby and gave the young lady pleasure, had instead grown into something else. A chore. A task. And slowly, little by little, the lady began to hate what she baked. She began to hate the task of baking. And just like that, one day, there was no pie outside her house.

And the people had the gall, to ask her why.

The End.

Now on personal matters, My personal name is Samuel, I was born on November 11th of 1998, and I currently live on UK, My English is not the best, but I can keep a good conversation.

Sometimes I like to just sit on my rooftop and see the shining stars on the sky, but can't stay there for much time 'cause of mosquito's, I have a few hobbies; none of them really memorable to being shared, but if you're curious about it, I love to play basketball and read some FF before sleeping (It too can be applied to play League of Legends before sleeping, Hehehe)

I have a few stories on my HDD, but don't feel so confident on uploading them, I have this belief that don't let me upload anything before being finished, so if I do in any kind of strange behaviour upload a story, you must know that I would only upload the prologue or the first chapter of said story, and then i'll leave it abandoned (On FF) until I finish it, and then, just then, I'll upload the whole.

On other notes, I like to leave my reviews on stories that catch my attention, and don't be mad if I kind of leave you a harsh review, I like to be honest with my words, and never sugar my words, because I really thought, that sugaring words are the worst way to give a good criticism.

If you have read the whole thing to this point, let me tell you, that I feel honoured, that you gave minutes of your life.

My best wishes and blessings to whoever are reading this.