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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?
"Well, baloney,"
says Charlotte novelist and screenwriter Robert Inman in his story,
"Santa's Coming, Regardless." Santa's going to come whether
you've been good or bad. That's the whole point of Santa Claus.
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.
about the author and
illustrator
Ruth Moose, a native of Stanly County, is the author of two short
story collections and four books of poetry. She teaches writing at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She and her husband
Talmadge live in Albemarle and Pittsboro.
Talmadge Moose has received
many awards for his paintings and drawings. His works hang in many
museums and private collections and he is listed in Who's Who in
American Art and the International Directory of Art.
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