Cake Around the Corner

2021. Norfolk, Virginia
A document recovered in a Virginia fire details the story of Mr. Kaler and the eventual end of those who worked, went and loved Cake Shops and Pops, a business owned by Jeremy E. Ralphine. Mr. Kaler interviewed an employee in 2013 and when he arrived to join the crew, hoping to make his future child happy, he discovered that there is nothing more terrifying than not being able to. Here, he details his relationship with each event in hopes to note down each little fragment Ralphine may have left behind.
Mr. Kaler may have gotten an ending, but is it the one he wanted?

This psychological fiction novel is written in the style of a document, and reads as such. Jacob Kaler, an employee at the fictional Pops and Shops Jr. finds himself staggering at the decision to call the police when he finds out that his manager is a murderer, fearful of being investigated and misconscrewed like in a previous incident. Jacob chooses to see out his plan to put an end to it himself, but he soon realizes that it is too late to run, and that he must carry forward. No matter what traumatizes him, no matter what looks like his end, there will always be a better ending somewhere.