Tasty Tales of Transformation

 Artwork - Ittla I’m Santa’s grumpy Elf. Why am I grumpy? Well because our whole operation has had a candy cane thrown into it! It is absolute chaos here at the North Pole and who knows if next Christmas will even come. It is a well-frosted process delivering all those presents in one night, we elves often joke he does it in the Saint Nick of Time. There’s just one little problem, he doesn’t do it alone! It’s another Santa Secret, please don’t tell! But yes, you heard that right that he doesn’t do it alone. In fact there are many Santas, lookalike helpers employed under the jolly fella himself. They work in pairs, flying by reindeer to every corner of the globe in one night to deliver a present to every house. Even that is a fib though, as there are some places we are told to avoid. These are places where devilish magic and hearts hold domain. They are not meant for us, and yet last year Santa surprisingly received a Christmas letter addressed to him from one such place, the plains of

  Artwork - Sakimichan Attraction can smack one upside the head sometimes, out of nowhere. What comes from it can be quite good and memorable, other times a disappointing punch back to reality. Though there is an odd occurrence where someone’s presence will make a man or woman dizzy and weak in the knees enough to want to jump their bones. It’s not always looks, but an electrical charge in the air when they interact that could be considered quite amazing. It is also rare. There are some individuals it comes natural to though—possessing a natural charm both physically and ethereally that is something entirely different. There exists two friends d e s p e r a t e  for such a thing. The day and night dreams that seem well out of reach taunt them, both men thirsting for an existence beyond their office walls, breakfast, lunch, and late night taco stops, beyond what they had become and what they always were. Unfashionable, boringly studious, and unprepossessing in a way that most of their c