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" The Shopping Mall santa And the
Little Girl With Red Hair and Freckles " A 1500
WORD STORY
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" The Faces of Christmas " ~ Short Story A woman who works at the Union Gospel Mission in her home town is beginning to hate the season and all of
its demands. But she learns a poignant lesson about ‘The Reason for the Season” when through the eyes of achild
as innocent as the Babe born in the stable at Bethlehem!
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" Tom's Turkeys " ~ Short Story From the "
The Twelve Faces of Christmas " Prose Collection. Four stories dealing with the December Holidays in America in
ascending order of the number of pages. 1-2-3-9 where each of the four stories is interrelated. Tom Andrews is deeply offended
when his son's National Guard Unit is reassigned an extra six months in Afghanistan after he'd counted on having Danny home
for the holidays. This is forcing him to hire extra help from the Mission to care for the extra pullets he bought, expecting
to share the time and get reacquainted with his son, whose fearing PTSD is creeping up on him. It takes the special night
at the Mission to help to see that caring for the rights of others is the best way to keep oneself intact!
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" The Second Christmas Angel " ~ Short Story Regrettably, in attempting to blend two families. the traditions that held so
much value before the marriage broke break-up have to be re-woven or exchanged for a new shared reality. Like a beloved Christmas
ornament that can only go with ONE SIDE of the divorce, where a second and equally meaningful symbol has to be shaped
and allowed to takes its place, in its own right!
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