Storytime

Once upon a time, there was a jelly doughnut.

It was a happy little doughnut, because it wasn't little at all, really.

It was actually quite huge.

And it was very proud.

It had powdered sugar all over, but not too thick...

It was just the right coating.

And it was filled with sticky sweet strawberry jam, which was just runny enough to give the jelly doughnut a proper squish, but not so runny as to leak out the jelly belly button.

This jelly doughnut lived a happy life. It came out of an oven one Friday morning, put its perfect coat of powdered sugar on, and sat in the bakery pastry case waiting for its person to come along.

And then suddenly, the shop bell rang.

What a happy day!

A tall, heavyset man had come to give the doughnut a home.

The doughnut smiled.

It was going to make someone very happy.

And very full.

So it sat in its little cardboard box with some other jelly doughnuts, and some cinnamon rolls, and one peppy little blueberry muffin with crumbles on top.

One by one, the jelly doughnut's friends started to disappear.

First one cinnamon roll was taken out by a very smiley admin.

Next, the peppy little blueberry muffin with the crumbles on top went to an EngineerFriend.

And then one of the other jelly doughnuts ascended to the heavens, aided by the hand of a hungry manager.

The jelly doughnut just smiled and waited, knowing that its time would soon be nigh.

Quietly it sat there, unassuming and unafraid as EngineerFriend after EngineerFriend strolled past to grab their morning swill from the coffeepot.

And then, it's moment came!

"Ooh, a doughnut!" heard the jelly doughnut.

And it puffed up its pastry and readjusted its coat for optimum deliciosity.

It wanted to make its hungry human very happy.

And very full.

But then...

OH THE HORROR!

Something sharp and pokey sliced nonchalantly through its puffy pastry, scattering powdered sugar all over the counter.

But that wasn't it.

No, more horrors were to come...

Although the jelly doughnut didn't know what they might be.

The jelly doughnut tried to be brave, and maintain its puffy pastriness and it's powdery goodness and its sticky sweetness...

But then came the worst part.

THE NINNY ONLY TOOK HALF OF THE JELLY DOUGHNUT.

Seriously. Who does that?

And the sticky sweet strawberry goo leaked everywhere.

And the powdered sugar got all soggy.

And the puffy pastry gave up the fight and went flop.

And so ends the tale of The Jelly Doughnut.