“Live free or die hard.”
Benjamin Franklin* #quote
Today family and did the last bit of house cleaning for all of
Christmas whew! Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The One Who Never Gets A Present
“Maybe if I was Jewish I would get a present,” Santa mumbled to
himself. The elves are presents. And the cookies from children aren't
much of a gift either. The elves are employees who really don't care
much for him to know anything beyond getting him a new red hat. Mrs.
Claus gives him those hats, coats and wonderful meals anyway all
through the year. Her “present” every year is a healthy meal to
go with all those cookies he could eat through the night.
Although the biggest problem is that Santa could never get a present
like he would give. The biggest misconception is that Santa's Elves
makes the gifts. His elves make Christmas magic for all the gifts
that Santa puts on all gifts Christmas night. If the gift is a worthy
gift the child will be filled with even more love for it than they
would on any other day. Each holiday of giving has a being for this,
he lamented that if he could be Jewish then he could receive gift
magic during Hanukkah. Being Santa he could never get gift magic
given to him.
Santa did his work on Christmas, and a few days after a very curious
thing happened. A package arrived at his door. This was a rare, rare
occurrence. He looked at it and saw a package labeled “From Santa”
then under that, “Return to Sender”. Apparently this was how
someone managed to mail something to him.
Inside the package was a massive book titled “Nearly A Million
Puzzles To Fill Your Time” and a note.
“Santa, I loved this book you gave me last year. I never wrote any
of the answers inside to keep it like new, Dad told me to do that
when I first got it. I thought that since nobody probably ever got
you any presents besides Mrs. Claus or whoever lives in the North
Pole I thought you should have this.”
Santa smiled. He could feel the gift magic coming from the book. The
child, even though not being one of the gift giving spirits, managed
to impart some magic onto it.
Old Saint Nick did every puzzle with joy.
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