#Free Short Story

For the past several years, the authors on The Roses of Prose blogsite have shared short stories with their readers. A holiday gift to the readers. I've been a member of this group for less than two years. A year ago while plans were made for last year's anthology, I quickly agreed even though I hadn't written a short story since high school. I write novels that I "force" myself to keep close to 400 hundred pages (100,000 words). How could I write anything as short as 7,000 words? I managed and "Christmas in Space" appeared last December in two installments.

This year I was better prepared. We all had a hand in deciding on a first line with which our stories would open. "She'd never seen a Santa suit used in quite that way." Thus was born THE SANTA SUIT CHRONICLES. My contribution--in three installments--is "The Santa Tradition."

My story began yesterday and concludes tomorrow. If you haven't already, hop on over to The Rose of Prose blog for my gift to you.

Post Thanksgiving

How did you all survive Thanksgiving and Black Friday? As I posted on The Roses of Prose yesterday, I don't go shopping the day after Thanksgiving. Normally. This year, Hubs wanted to check out a hobby store that carried model trains. Daughter-in-law graciously drove us to not one but two stores. At the second, he picked out his Christmas presents--at my urging, by the way. We have so few surprises anymore. He's learned not to buy me clothes and I've run out of ideas for the woodworker/model train enthusiast. I used to think it odd that my father-in-law would say "Your mother picked out her Christmas present today." Now I understand. Anyway, back to Black Friday--we got quite a deal on the trains he wanted and I think we relieved the owner's boredom. We were the only ones in his shop for about an hour.

Speaking of deals. How would you like to read some holiday short stories? Free holiday stories. Once again The Roses of Prose are featuring an anthology of stories during December, starting today. Our stories center around a Santa suit, hence the title THE SANTA SUIT CHRONICLES. Hop on over to The Roses of Prose blog and start reading.