the two hundred and sixty fourth story

Recipes by Kest:
How to make chai-
Place several "red hot" candies in the teacup
Pour hot earl grey to brim
wait for candy to dissolve
Enjoy

two hundred and sixty third story

Recipes by Kest:
How to make white tea
Eat all the snowman candies
Great, now you have nothing delicious with white dye
Pour hot earl grey into teacup, anyway
Enjoy

Two Hundred and Sixty Second Story

Recipes by Kest;
How to make roibus (red) tea.
First, place red christmastree shaped candy in the teacup.
Pour hot earl grey over candy, fill to top of cup
Wait for candy to dissolve
Enjoy

The Two Hundred and Sixty First Story

Recipes by Kest;
How to make green tea.
First, place green christmastree shaped candy in the teacup.
Pour hot earl grey over candy, fill to top of cup
Wait for candy to dissolve
Enjoy

The Two Hundred and Sixtieth Story

"the Antartic Man ballooms were always the most popular part of the parade"

the two hundred and fifty ninth story

 

 

The Commuter

Velma's singing voice had been the talk of five counties out in Ohio, but since arriving in the city, she hadn't gotten a single callback, no matter how many auditions she went to. For the moment, she's put her musichall dreams on the back burner & she has a pretty good job in the typing pool at a 5^th avenue ad company. She can't afford an apartment anywhere nearby, which might not SOUND like such a big deal in a city with such great public transit, but she can't fit through the subway gates. She says she enjoys the five mile walk & that the air does her good & the exercise reminds her body of her youth working on the farm. She still goes to at least one audition per week & I have high hopes for her, regardless of whether she ever gets to be the star she dreamed of as a little hatchling. She's good at landing on her feet, & all her eyes are looking at the future.

The Two Hundred and Fifty Eighth Story

 

 

I bought Baba Yaga's old house at a bankruptcy auction. She was several centuries behind in tax payments & the bureaucracy of arranging a payment plan with all the various districts... it was just beyond her. The price I agreed on was initially pretty high, but I was able to persuade the courts that with the moving about & the size(small) it didn't legally count as a house or property. That got me out of almost 80% of what was owed on the thing. I felt pretty bad for the previous owner, so I used some of that savings to buy her a VW camper in exchange for a few driving lessons in my new home. She & I still exchange letters, sometimes, but most of them get lost in the mail.