Download or read book Gritty Southern Christmas Anthology A Collection of Short Stories written by Laura Hunter and published by Gritty South. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of Christmas stories set in the South. Stories filled with heartache, hard truths, and real people trying to make it through the holidays. Written by true Southerners who know firsthand the pain of life in the South and the love that keeps everything together.
Download or read book Christmas Stories from the South s Best Writers written by Charline R. McCord and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories by Olympia Vernon, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Ward Brown, and more that look at Christmas from unexpected angles. While Christmas stories are traditionally sweet, not every holiday memory generates a feeling of ease, merriment, and plenty. In the capable hands of twelve of the best writers in the South, Christmas is a season not only of traditions and family, but of sacrifice and endurance, loneliness and faith. The stories in this anthology embrace the rich and varied aspects of the Christmas season, upholding family, forgiveness, and love as virtues of redemption. A divorcee finds strength in an artifact from her childhood in “Queen Elizabeth Running Free,” while an elderly couple struggles to find comfort in “The Cold Giraffe.” From Elizabeth Spencer’s “Carrollton Christmas in Olden Days,” recalling warm family memories of a particularly cold holiday, to Mark Richard’s “The Birds for Christmas,” wherein a bleak and difficult Christmas is endured by two boys in an orphanage, the stories in this anthology exemplify the best that Southern fiction has to offer.
Download or read book Deck the Halls Y all written by Charles Fail and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Southern Christmas short stories that reflect the awe, wonder, and joy of this special time of the year.
Download or read book A Very Scary Christmas written by Kyra Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of Christmas short stories with a horror or supernatural angle.
Download or read book A Dixie Christmas written by Charline R. McCord and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assortment of Christmas stories, essays, and illustrations celebrates Southern authors, including tales by Bailey White, Rick Bass, Ellen Gilchrist, Marianne Gingher, George Singleton, Michael Parker, Steve Yarbrough, Lynne Barrett, Bret Anthony Johnston, Stephen Marion, and Aaron Gwyn.
Download or read book A Very Southern Christmas written by Charline R. McCord and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the spirit of a southern Christmas in a collection of short fiction by some of the region's contemporary fiction writers.
Download or read book Christmas Tapestry Anthology written by Christian Writers of the West and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Writers of the West, the southwestern division of American Christian Fiction Writers, proudly presents a collection of Christmas-themed short stories to warm your hearts throughout the season. Each writer is gifted with a unique writing style, accounting for the wide variety included in this collection.
Download or read book High Cotton Christmas written by Cappy Rearick and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Southern Christmas stories written by award winning author, Cappy Hall Rearick.
Download or read book Southern Christmas written by Judy Long and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas has always captured the hearts of southern writers. Here in the volume are twenty-eight classic stories and memories of the holidays.
Download or read book I ll Be Home for Christmas written by Zane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ll Be Home for Christmas is a moving story that reminds us of the true meaning of Christmas. Noelle Mitchell never explained why she abruptly ran away from home at the age of fifteen. All anyone knew was that her boyfriend, Reno, convinced her to abandon her family. But when she shows up at the family house on Christmas thirteen years later to make things right, what’s revealed about her absence will either tear her family further apart or bring them closer together. But one thing is clear: she will not run away again.
Download or read book Nancy s Christmas Eve Visitor written by The Purple Pen and published by . This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paying the Piper his Dues" is a true story told through the eyes of a major hustler who left the game in his prime. I was faced with a dilemma which was play the hand I was dealt or give up and fall prey to the streets. As a youngster I saw the local hustlers getting money and all of the girls this only fueled my fire. As a result I became fascinated with the game, I thought this would be my ticket to the American dream and my way out of the hood. Nobody told me glitter and glim ain't what it seem and everything you get from the game the price you must pay in return is too high. I was expelled from High School, went to jail and labeled. Thank God for my mother, and the Hank-Lady I finished High School and went on to graduate from Alabama State University. Nobody told me the life I chose would be easy, but nobody told it would be this hard. Thanks to my street teachers Shoe Strang, and Mike I was able to take the game by a storm. I lost a lot to the game for example, my first love, my homeboys, and most of all my childhood. It was hard for me for me to leave the game not because of the money but because I was concern about the people who dependent on me to feeding their families. I thank God I was able to leave the game. To all my youngster steer clear of the game because in the end the price is too high to pay take it from me.
Download or read book For the Love of Christmas written by Mary Marvella and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains four stories about Christmas and giving. "Christmas' Best Bet" is about three lawyers who learn about giving. "Matt's Christmas Angel" tells about friends who find their relationship changing at Christmas time as they follow their version of the twelve days of good deeds. "The Christmas Promise" shows how a woman and her children deal with domestic violence at Christmas. "A Very Bella Thanksgiving" starts at Thanksgiving when a mother takes her small daughter to see her grandparents. The small daughter gets the best Christmas gift ever. Each story is different and each has a positive message.
Download or read book Miscellany Volume III written by Word Addicts and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third anthology from Word Addicts
Download or read book Deadly Night written by K. B. Everly and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEADLY NIGHT: A TWISTED CHRISTMAS ANTHOLOGYNot in the mood for your run-of-the-mill holiday romance? Maybe you don't want a Christmas story with a happy ending? Or maybe you just like things to be a little darker?Look no further!Grab your hot cocoa, crawl under the blankets, and switch on your flashlight as you dive into 20 holiday themed short stories and poems that will give you a taste for the darker side of Christmas.Some might be scary. Some might be sexy. But one thing's for sure, they're all definitely twisted...Featuring:Stacy JonesK.B. EverlyShae Banks Jenee Robinson & Evelyn BelleK.B. WheelockC.A. StormNova BlakeTabitha BarretCB MorriganLA Kirk Lyn ForesterRinna FordJoely Sue BurkhartJaliza A. BurwellRichard AmosTL ReeveMichele RyanSharon StevensonLacey Carter AndersenPetra J. KnoxM.E. TurnbaughDebbie Cassidy- USA Today Bestselling AuthorCece Rose- International Bestselling AuthorE.M. Moore- USA Today Bestselling AuthorAngelique Armae- National Bestselling Author*Warning: This anthology contains material some readers may find sensitive
Download or read book Once Upon a Christmas written by Richard J. Smith Ph. D and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS is a collection of short stories, all with Christmas settings, plots, and sentimentality. The author writes of his own boyhood Christmases, eighty-some years ago, and the Christmases of characters drawn from his imagination. He prepares us for each story with a commentary about the background for it. The stories are intended to activate our memories, provoke thought and elicit a smile, a frown, a laugh, or a tear. To paraphrase Francis Bacon [1561 - 1626], they are to be tasted, perhaps chewed; some are to be swallowed and digested. All are to be enjoyed and read in the spirit of Christmas.
Download or read book American Christmas Stories written by Connie Willis and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book ** Library of America and Connie Willis present 150 years of diverse, ingenious, and uniquely American Christmas stories Christmas took on its modern cast in America, and over the last 150 years the most magical time of the year has inspired scores of astonishingly diverse and ingenious stories. Library of America joins with acclaimed author Connie Willis to present a unparalleled collection of American stories about Christmas, literary gems that showcase how the holiday became one of the signature aspects of our culture. Spanning from the origins of the American tradition of holiday storytelling in the wake of the Civil War to today, this is the biggest and best anthology of American Christmas stories ever assembled. From ghost stories to the genres of crime, science fiction, fantasy, westerns, humor, and horror, stories of Christmas morning, gifts, wise men, nativities, family, commercialism, and dinners from New York to Texas to outer space, this anthology reveals the evolution of Christmas in America--as well as the surprising ways in which it has remained the same.
Download or read book Christmas in Georgia written by Celestine Sibley and published by Peachtree Junior. This book was released on 1985 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories here take place on Southern soil. But their themes and their characters are as universal as Christmas itself. They're the kinds of stories that families and friends will cherish and read aloud to one another every holiday season - year after year. One of the joys of Celestine Sibley's writing is the people she tells us about. That's because "Celestine's People," whether fictitious or otherwise, are always real - the kind of individuals you'd like to sit down with and have a long conversation. This has never been truer than with the characters who populate Christmas In Georgia. Take for example, sightless Mrs. Tippen: "She was a funny looking old thing in her bunchy black clothes, hopping about on the doorstep like a tame crow, but she was good." And there is Mrs. Tippen's friend, ten-year-old Sukey Hart, who knew how to do almost everything - from spinning and weaving to speaking perfect Cherokee - except how to keep her young heart from listening when she heard a wounded Tory soldier tell about his Christmases back in England before the Revolutionary War. There's no one you'll remember more than Henry Grady Huckaby, who, out of love for his sick brother, accidentally saved Christmas for his entire family. Or take cranky, rheumatoid-ridden Gramp Stanton, who makes Christmas come, even to Snout Island. Or get to know adolescent Araminta Morley, who, though "just the age to be cynical, even at Christmastime," will touch your heart and fill you with the holiday spirit. The stories here take place on Southern soil. But their themes and their characters are as universal as Christmas itself. They're the kinds of stories that families and friends will cherish and read aloud to one another every holiday season - year after year.
