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| Christmas Is In the Air |
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Matt's Christmas Angel A short story in THE ANTHOLOGY A STONE MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS https://www.amazon.com/Stone-
Best friends fall in love while doing their Christmas good deeds. They've been doing their own version of the 12 days of Christmas since they were kids. Now they are adults and she's his Christmas Angel.
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Sleep captured
Gwen in its gentle arms and eased her into her fondest memory. She was three
years old and playing in her sandbox, the one mama said had been hers once upon
a time. A child she’d never seen walked up to her sandbox and stood, staring at
her.
“You Gwen?”
The boy's face puckered up in a frown.
Gwen nodded
slowly. “Uh huh. Who are you?”
The boy looked
bigger than she was and real skinny. His glasses made him look like an owl. He
carried a pail and a shovel. He had light, short hair.
“Matthew Henry
Simmons,” he said. He must be serious about the long name, because he wasn’t
smiling.
“This is my
sandbox. Wanna play?”
“Sure.” He
still didn’t smile.
Gwen grinned when she thought about his red
plastic bucket and shovel. She remembered the gentleness of five-year old Matt.
He had been her playmate ever since. That Christmas he had told her about the Twelve
Days of Christmas song he’d learned in kindergarten. He’d also taught her
to count to one hundred.
The Christmas Promise
The Christmas Promise is a short story about a woman whose husband was abusive. She and her college-aged kids must face their first Christmas together since she charged their father with assault and had him arrested. What will Christmas have in store for them?
Christmas's Best Bet, Humble Pie
When Brock, a wealthy lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, loses a bet with his partners, he must take up the challenge to get a job in a Waffle House and work there after office hours in their law firm for a month.
He has never worked so hard or learned so much about people. During that month he learns humility and caring and paying it forward
This novella has loads of southern flavor.
BIO.
I’m a story-holic. Yep, I have loved to read
since the first grade. I has been a storyteller for as long as I can remember. The
stories I made up for the other children and the details I created the details for their “play like” or
“let’s pretend” games. Sometimes the details were so real they scared me
I taught language arts for 15 years, perfect
for my BA in English. My M.Ed in Counseling served me well during my
years as a school counselor and as a teacher later.
Now I tutor, teach writers,
and edit. My inner English teacher loves the editing part. My daughter doesn’t
read my books (something about TMI.) I have a 43 year old daughter and I live
north of Atlanta, Georgia. I have
published 6 novels, three, novellas and seven short stories.
MARY MARVELLA
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Good morning! Thanks for inviting me,Penny!
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Thanks, Stacy! I hope you enjoy!
ReplyDeleteLol. I love the title, The Best Christmas bet, Humble Pie. It drew me right in. Congrats on all the releases. Now to check them out.
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DeleteWoW! I'm impressed. Super congrats on these books. Wishing you many sales.
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