Life, Death, and the Chocolate Cake.

In the desert there was a table. Beside the table, two chairs. On top of the table sat a white plate. Two forks facing inwards on it. In between the forks sat a slice of chocolate cake.

The desert lay inside a giant, clear cube. The bright cube, with its desert, floated in a Void. The Void permitted no colour, it seemed one step black beyond black. Although ageless, it had a beginning and as with all things begun, it had an end. At this end the glowing, clear cube, sat.

In the Void, in the cube, in the desert, at the table, on the chairs, holding forks, staring at the plate, and its cake, salivating and smiling, sat two children: a little girl, and a little boy.

The children began eating the cake, crumbs landing on the table and sticking to the corners of their mouths.

When the children finished the slice of chocolate cake, they clinked their forks.

“More?”, asked the boy.

“More”, answered the girl.

And then there was a Big Bang.

*

In the Void there were now stars. In one spiral, a bright yellow sun. Around the sun spun a small planet. On the planet there was water and land. On the ground there was a forest. In the forest a giant clear cube. In the cube there lay a table. Beside the table sat two chairs. On the table sat a plate. On it two forks facing in. Between the forks a slice of chocolate cake.

Around the sun a large rock spiralled. Its orbit falling towards the world with its cube. Into the cube many lizards, giant creatures, and small furry things, stared at two children. A girl and a boy sat at the table on the chairs, forks held in small hands, staring at their slice of chocolate cake.

Round the cube the forest started shaking. A loud Bang as the rock finally hit. The pressure killed all the lizards, sending the sky into darkness all around the bright cube. In the cube, on the chairs, from the plate, the two children, with their forks, ate their cake.

The chaos outside abated, as the children ate their last, messy bites. They clinked forks and smiled at each other. Chocolate and a question on their tongues.

“More?”, the girl asked.

“More”, the boy answered.

*

In the Void the stars still spun sparkling. On the planet’s dark side lights sparkled back. On the light side, there were bustling cities. In one city, near a footpath, sat a giant, clear cube. In the cube there was a restaurant. Only one table was set up, with two chairs. On the table there lay a white plate, upon it two forks facing inwards. Between two forks on the plate, sat a slice of chocolate cake.

Outside the cube, the people of the world faced many challenges. Some said that it was all beginning to end. The weather was changing, not in good ways. Fires and storms that went on too long and were too fierce. The younger people cried they could still fix the mess that the older people had made of the world. The older people tried half-heartedly but still held their fingers on bombs that could make the planet no more. On the world there was a sickness.

Outside the bright, clear cube was a hush, as if the people knew a time had come. The people in masks walking past stopped and stared. At the cube, at two children, on two chairs at a table with two forks. One boy and one girl had mouths and laps messy, from the piece of chocolate cake that had disappeared from the plate. The little girl and the little boy clinked forks smiling. Staring at each other as the world outside the cube held its breath.

“More?”, asked the girl.