Baker-954 and the Holiday Cookies (short story)
Baker-954 and the Holiday Cookies was a Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids short story written by Lupan Evezan, the third of the Homeworld Holiday Vignettes.
Contents
Plot
Celebration-665 charges Baker-954, of the Department of Baked Goods, with making some holiday cookies for his pseudo-Christmas celebration, giving him a list of shapes to cut them into. When he comes back later that day, however, he is rather put-out to find that the oblivious Baker has shaped the tree cookies like willow trees, the deer ones like realistic (and angry) deer, the gingerbread-man ones like realistic human men, and the stars as perfect spheres. However, he doesn't find the heart to scold Baker and ends up accepting the cookies as they are.
Worldbuilding
Universes
- The story takes place in the Cupid Homeworld.
Continuity
- The Cupids' discovery of Christmas traditions sets itself within the framework established by PROSE: The Frost King's Treasure with the “Festival of Giving” organised by Celebration-665.
- Baker-954 would go on to appear in the very next Homeworld Holiday Vignette, PROSE: Larrikin and the Christmas Pudding, and later in PROSE: Rifts Crisis Officially Over!.
Behind the scenes
Read online
The story can be read for free on the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids website.
