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More Christmas Elf than Grinch

Christmas seems to come earlier each year and then sweeps in at the last minute like a velveteen cloak smelling of cinnamon, roast potatoes and … pine toilet cleaner. I’m not prepared for the Christmas decoration aisle in August, and I don’t like pine toilet cleaner.

To get me feeling more Christmas Elf than Grinch, I penned two flash fiction pieces for Friday Flash Fiction’s Christmas competition who this year, insisted we include the terms ‘peace’ and ‘goodwill’ in our stories.

So, I hope you enjoy my small scribblings of Mirror Mirror and The Elf Effect, and although I wasn’t picked to win the prize of $50, I had fun writing them. By the way, no mirrors or partridges were hurt in the writing of these whimsical yarns.

Merry Christmas, and hope you have one free of pine toilet cleaner.


                                                     (Photo © Paula Gilfillan. All Rights Reserved)  


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