My wife and I were making fruitcake today for the holidays since I love fruitcake. I asked her what I should write about for this story and she said fruitcake, so here it is.
copyright C E Ayr
Fruitcake
“It’s art,” Peter told his mother. He was ten and meticulously arranging boiled eggs around a raccoon carcass while a friend played D flat on the piano every 6.7 seconds.
“What does it mean?” she asked, but her expression said she thought he was a fruitcake.
“What does it mean?” a policeman asked ten years later, after Peter had put a woman’s shoe in every drain in New York.
“It’s art.”
“You’re a fruitcake, you know?”
Finally, he made a piece of artwork that captured national attention.
“100-foot statue made entirely of fruitcake!” the headlines screamed. “What could it mean?”
The Green-Walled Tower 
November 22nd, 2015 at 11:54 pm
good one! nice kid!
November 23rd, 2015 at 6:21 am
It seems not many people like fruitcake if it lasted long enough to be critiqued. This sounds like some of the ultra-modern art we hear about these days. Good story, David. Well done. 🙂 — Suzanne
November 23rd, 2015 at 10:23 pm
I am surprised that so many people don’t seem to like it. I love it, personally.
November 23rd, 2015 at 11:20 am
You’re hilarious, David. I worried be surprised if someone hasn’t already tried to tackle the 100-foot fruitcake statue. You’re always so original. Fun read. Enjoy that fruitcake! Hope you have a nice Thanksgiving, too.
November 23rd, 2015 at 10:22 pm
Thanks Amy. We let the fruitcake age a month, so I have to wait until Christmas for it. Luckily, I’m okay with delayed gratification. As for the fruitcake statue, I’d hate to think of what the birds would do to it.
November 23rd, 2015 at 8:16 pm
Inspiration comes from the strangest places.
November 23rd, 2015 at 10:19 pm
Yes, I’ve definitely found that to be true. That’s why we need to keep our eyes open, right?
November 24th, 2015 at 6:12 am
Dear David,
There’s a statue that will last forever. I always look forward to your imaginative, out of the box, stories. This one is no exception. Peter’s not a fruitcake, he’s eccentric. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
December 4th, 2015 at 11:25 pm
Hmm, so you think that even the pigeons wouldn’t touch it? 😉 We have hordes of squirrels around here who are already pretty fat from an autumn of gorging. I wonder what they would do with a statue of fruitcake. Glad you like it, Rochelle.
November 29th, 2015 at 3:41 am
It has always troubled me that fruit cake is so named yet does not contain a wide variety of fruits. I feel the name of the cake could be more specific.
I still eat it, regardless.
December 4th, 2015 at 11:14 pm
It is a very specific type of fruit-ish stuff and probably is very misleading to anyone who has never tried it. In Korea, they have cakes with lots of fresh fruit on them, so I tend to call those fruit cakes too, albeit very different ones.
November 29th, 2015 at 3:48 pm
Well done. I like the idea of the shoe art…. It would make headlines in our town.
December 4th, 2015 at 11:12 pm
I’m sure, although the street sweepers would probably be annoyed. 🙂