20/08/2025
Emotional yet quirky, "Sorrow Cake" is an unconventional story of a mother's grief.
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She was going to make a chocolate cake with strawberries, sometimes called a Thunder Cake. Except this would be a Sorrow Cake, not a Thunder Cake, even though technically it was a Thunder Cake, too. Ana had never been a mom who bakes. She had baked this cake once, however, when David was little for his first-grade class. While transferring it she dropped it on the floor. With a little bit of ingenuity, and a lot of sticky chocolate frosting, she was able to glue the whole mess back together. David’s class ate floor cake. They probably would’ve enjoyed it less if they knew it was floor cake. Life rarely gives us non-floor cake, Ana thought, we just don’t know it.
by Lin Dumas