What are you doing voice A asked, within a distant echo; that’s not right, commented voice B, slightly ahead; leave him to it, voice C said from somewhere behind, he’s concentrating.
Tom pulled his tongue back into his mouth and carefully carried the small, silver sugared bead in a tweezer, and then carefully and precisely placed it into the centre of the round iced cake.
It’ll take him until next year to extract all the beads at this rate, voice B added, as she walked through the double swing doors that led out of the kitchen, with a swish. Tom slowly retrieved another silver bead from the small glass jar and placed it beside the first in the cake’s centre.
Voice A moved over to the stove, flicked on the flame, and began making pancakes; it’s a good thing the cake isn’t needed until next week, she giggled, at least it’ll be partly decorated.
I need to go back to the office, voice C said as he left the kitchen, let you concentrate some more… the swish of the swing door caused the third bead to flick out of the tweezer, catapult across the kitchen, and plop unseen into the sizzling pancake mix.
Posted for Six Sentence Stories. A Six Sentence Café & Bistro ‘under the microscope’ six. The prompt word this week is Extract.
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