5 Pies (Cherry)
::The Piemaker was never one for festive cheer. April Fool's Day frightened him. New Year's Eve made him cranky and tired and troubled about the upcoming year. Halloween gave him acid reflux.
Celebrating Christmas was something forced upon him by friends and employees, and had always left the Piemaker stubborn and irritable about being coerced into candy and fun. But now, with no old friends or employees to force him into having a festive occasion, the Piemaker found himself missing the holiday cheer. So he'd crept into the Dollar Store in town and brought back to the train tiny birthday candles, which he then arranged into a nine-cupcake menorah, and lit them in the dining room.
He wasn't Jewish. He didn't even know when Hanukkah started. However, the love of his life and long-time secret girlfriend Chuck was Jewish, and lighting a make-shift menorah that was both ceremonious and delicious made him feel that much closer to her, however many miles or worlds separated them.
His Christmas shopping done, the Piemaker leaned back and observed the scrap of paper in his hand. Santa Claus wasn't the only one who had made out a list this year, and it comforted the Piemaker to know that he, too, could be a part of the celebration for once. Checking off names of the people he had found gifts for, he came to the one name on his list he had yet to buy for, and arguably the most important; his roommate and gift-exchange, Kukaku Shiba.
Watching the cheap, nickle candles burn their waxy remains into the cupcake frosting of the menorah, the Piemaker leaned forward and began to scribble his ingenious idea onto a bit of napkin, turning the creative gears in his head from pie-making to fireworks-making::
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piemakers_touch) wrote,
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