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Monday, December 23, 2013

Today's #flashfiction #TheOneWhoNeverGetsAPresent

“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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