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Twelve Christmas Stories by North Carolina Writers Down Home Press Ever get told as a kid that if you didn't do this or didn't do that, Santa wouldn't come to see you? Or if he did, he'd leave you only a stocking filled with switches or ashes? And whether you've been good or bad, you also can enjoy the next best thing to Santa coming—this collection of short stories, essays, poems, and novel excerpts about Christmas by two dozen of North Carolina's finest writers. Collected by Albemarle short story writer Ruth Moose, these selections are certain to make you laugh, touch your heart, and leave you with a warm feeling inside—just as Christmas does. Lee Smith writes about those awful and wonderful Christmas letters that so many people exchange at the holiday time, which led her to write a best-selling book. Marianne Gingher tells of a young bride's Christmas in a faraway place where no Christmas trees were available and passion fruit had to make do for one vital element of the season. In Sue Ellen Bridgers' story, "Lost and Found," Uncle Willard sits on the Christmas coconut cake, but it doesn't take away from the flavor. And poet Michael McFee writes about a yule log that was good enough to eat. Kate Pickens Day was 86 when she sat down to write a novel in long-hand. In it she reminisced about the wonderful—and sometimes exasperating—aspect of the season, the family coming together for the holidays, which later was published as a short story, "Home for Christmas." This book is one you'll want to make part of your own family, so you can bring it out every Christmas and read it over again.
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