The Icing Wars

Created and Curated by Ken Holm

Burdock Falls, Vermont, turns two hundred on Saturday. The select board has ordered the town's two rival bakers to make one cake together, in one kitchen, either side of one strip of blue tape. By Thursday someone has iced a kitchen sponge.

village comedyNewShort read

~43–44 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

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