Angela's Christmas Crackers Copyright Oggbashan November 2019 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. This is a work of fiction. The events described here are imaginary; the settings and characters are fictitious and are not intended to represent specific places or living persons. "What do you want those for?" I as...
Are you alone and lonely for the holidays? Don't you wish that Ronco would invent something to make you feel not so alone and sell it on TV for, oh, I don't know, $19.99 and if you called right now, you'd get a second one for free? Yeah, well, go fish, life doesn't work that way. A friend in need is a friend indeed doesn't always go along with you sow what...
"Ok, that's it for today. Remember guys..." "We know Mrs. G! You've told us a hundred thousand times" called one of the exasperated students. "More like a million" murmured another under his breath. "Have fun! Be safe! And take care of your library books!" chorused the class in a loud, sing-song voice. "All right you wise guys, I get it. But I don't want...
Little One stepped out of the tub and pulled a towel from the bar. The smell of food cooking suddenly made her feel hungry. It was Christmas eve and Daddy was home early. He was now in the kitchen, preparing a Christmas Eve feast for two and filling the house with wonderful smells. Little One dried quickly and pulled on her terry cloth robe. It was a littl...
Walking the downtown streets of Chicago during the holidays is magical. The lights twinkle and sway in the brisk winter breeze. Christmas music wafts on the evening air. People and families are shopping. Laughter and smiles abound this time of year. Tugging my coat a little tighter to fend off the brisk cold, my stride quickens to find my destination. The...
Marion sat upright on the bus seat, knees together, shoulder bag on her lap. She watched the dark streets pass by through her reflection in the window. Christmas lights shot their electric streams of coloured energy through the blackness, creating islands of cheer in the gloom. Some streets the bus passed through were more affluent, with lots of competing di...
"Well, if you really need someone, I suppose I could do that—if you really need me." Clara tried to make her reluctance quite clear, but Elizabeth was having none of that. She just cheerily plowed along, working on getting Clara on the road to fill in for no-shows among the volunteers at the soup kitchen where Elizabeth was working that evening. Nothing had...
So Christmas is around the corner, and you don’t have much planned. Your mom and sisters are all off to a big Christmas Party at your Aunt’s while your Dad’s off to get wasted with some coworkers at a strip joint. You’ve made it no secret that you’re not as big on Christmas as everyone else, and have blown off many invitations from friends and family alike j...
"Please Mommy! Can't we go see Santa?" cried the twin girls. Victoria Kramer was wishing she was anywhere but the mall right this moment, but here she was, and of all days, she was there on Christmas Eve. She was here because her mother called her in a panic asking -- no begging -- her to pick up those special cheese nut balls that only Hickory Farms sold i...
I think I was five or six when the magic of Christmas began to be destroyed for me. Before that, it was all sitting on Santa's lap, parades, Christmas village at the mall. Small, penny candy canes were for the asking and there was always a tree. Never the greatest tree but we generally didn't have a Charlie Brown tree either, so yeah, it was a Merry Christma...