christmas - Stories

Charlie, Kip, Rick, Adrian, and Uncle Bob are invited by Frit and Pip to spend a different sort of Christmas Eve on the other side of the portal between worlds. And different is exactly what they get!

Winifred Barrett is good. She was brought in to help meld two corporate identities into one, and winds up taking on more and more responsibilities. Could a career woman back then have it all? One would think not….

Through a series of her letters and journal entries, we learn the answer.

I looked at the envelope. I knew what it was by the Company Secret Santa sticker on it. So, why was I nervous to open it. It was probably just a gift card, no one knew me well enough to get me anything personal.

But, then why was it my favorite shade of purple????

Everyone knows what Christmas is about. Jesus, of course, some say. Excessive consumerism, others reply. But is that really all there is to it? Two young teens learn that it might be more than that.
A short story for reflection.

Josh Matheson decides to take a holiday cruise to get away from his family. With a mix-up in luggage, his whole world is opened to a load of unexpected gifts.

Dating your boss can be complicated, even more so when your relationship can hardly be called conventional. But Lance seems determined to give Keenan a Christmas gift he won't soon forget, and who is Keenan to complain?

Becoming a vampire is nothing like they tell you in those books. Frankly, it sucks. Especially when you're a failure, your master rejects you and you want nothing more than to fade away from your miserable existence, even if it's Christmas Eve.

While the holiday is past, we’d like to take a moment and tell you about a Christmas miracle that happened in our own backyard While the Christmas Eve blizzard will certainly make the record books for the thirty-two inches of unexpected snowfall, this is the story of a small community reaching out to help those less fortunate and in need.

Emmett is a Canadian polar bear who loves his job, gets on great with his panda room mate, and gets to have excellent sex with his new boyfriend. So when the panda's cousin moves in with them, it shouldn't bother him, but Emmett isn't so much in control of his imagination as he used to be.

Freck and Kyle are both seniors and they’re out and proud. They’re also protégées, as Kyle just turned eleven and Freck is about to turn thirteen, on the day after Christmas. Kyle wants to get his boyfriend something special, but the watch Freck likes is way out of Kyle’s price range. Maybe with help from friends and family, and with a lot of self-sacrifice, he can swing it, but they’ll both learn the greatest gift is one they already share - the love of family.