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Thank you!

Thank you! Santa does some wonderful things especially when he has a little help from the rest of us.

It can't hurt to try!

Thanks. Parents are not always the "bad guy" even though they don't always understand us.

Thanks. It's somethings hard for parents to understand their kids but I think most of our parents just want us to be happy.

Thanks! Santa didn't get me anything that exiting either, but I can't complain... I didn't get a lump of coal.

Where can I get some of these elves? They would be so useful. Great story!

What a nice story! Thank you for sharing it.

To me Christmas is a time to love and hope. We meet with loved ones and miss the ones who can't be with us. We express our love in gift and/or prayers. We dare to hope for a better future. Christmas comes a few days after the longest colder night of the year in the Northern hemisphere. Since ancient times this was the time of year when people started looking forward to spring when life would return to all the frozen dormant plants and animals. Now we hope for gifts and we hope that others will like our gifts. We hope to mend relationships and start new ones. Because it means so much to many of us, Christmas can be very joyous or very painful. Unfortunately, we would not know what joy is if we never experienced pain. We have to be ready to feel a little bit of both.

I love your characters. I really enjoyed this.

Great story! I especially love your description of Santa.

Merry Christmas!!!

It was Christmas Eve and Dan was standing on the landing of his parents' house looking down into the living room. He and his siblings had all grown up and moved away but every Christmas they returned and took up residence in their old rooms. Dan's nieces and nephews filled the guest room and the den and the house became a noisy festive wonderland. Presently most of the family was still in the dining room finishing desert. Dan had excused himself and was going to retrieve some presents from

When a family gets together for the holidays a mother makes a Christmas wish for her son. When the wish is granted the result is not at all what she expected. Will she like what Santa brought her?

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm spending the day with my parents and my dog. We're doing the classic turkey and mashed potatoes with sides.

This year I was stuck at home because of my old and spoiled pet dog. I know not everyone celebrated this strange holiday but I hope some of you did something fun. What did you do for Halloween?

Since you asked here is my story. Depression: I have never had it diagnosed but I can honestly say that I have had some miserable times in my life. I have not been the victim of anything particularly tragic but when everything in your life seems to be unraveling all at once the little things can add up. Suicide: I did contemplate it at one point in the early 90's. I did not see any other way out of my problems so I began to plan my death. I would have hung myself. It seemed quite fool proof as opposed to poison or cutting my wrists which could go wrong in many ways. Obviously I did not die. Some aspects of my life started to get better and I abandoned the plan. At this point I have no interest in killing myself. I can see the tree I would have hung my self from the window and no matter what is going wrong I know the worst is behind me. Social Anxiety: I am not the most outgoing person but I would not say that I have this condition. One thing I would like to add to this discussion is that not all doctors are equally good. If at some point you find that whatever treatment you are receiving is not working or your doctor seems too busy, preoccupied with other things, uninformed, uninterested, etc. change doctors. Here is the US, doctors are under pressure to solve problems quickly and that can lead to some poor results. Doctors can burn out, get overwhelmed by paperwork, or make mistakes because they are tired and rushed. Sometimes you have to go to a few doctors before you find one who can help you. If you are struggling with medical issues, don't give up.

I might as well admit it. There is no "experience" on my resume either. That's probably more or less my fate too, but I will be planting cacti in my yard.

That sounds like the basis of an encryption scheme...interesting.

I'd love to see your pics. if you don't mind sharing.

In my area there is a place called Devil's Gate Dam. Supposedly one of the founders of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab released some evil entity into the dam. The weather channel recently did a story on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gYlFc8s9A4

Just to be clear, I was referring to stories people have completely given up on. If the author is still interested in working on the story it would be much better for the original author to finish his/her story even if we have to wait a few years.

Thanks!

If someone is completely sick and tired of a story and wants nothing more to do with it, why not let a reader finish it? Readers often have an idea of how they want the story to end anyway. Why not let them write it down?

The Marble Mayfield is not a remarkable place. Its one noteworthy feature stands in an old cemetery on the outskirts of the town. Amidst the ordinary tombstones is a beautifully sculpted marble angel over the grave of a boy who died at the age of fourteen. The angel has a determined but kind expression on his face as he looks off into the distance. His hands are strangely cupped as if he were trying to catch something. Only the oldest Mayfield residents know that the angel was actually rel