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Stockings of red and green
And a shining evergreen awaits for
Nine reindeer to
Tiptoe on the roof
All the world has slowed

Cause Santa is here
Lovingly he places gifts under the tree
All children he loves the good and bad
Up the chimney he goes. Hand
Swept magic to
Everything that is right in the world.

Ahh yes the last day of November. Hello all and good day to you. That means only 24 shopping days until Christmas. I haven’t started yet but I did some pre-shopping. Me and the boyfriend look around and see what we want to get her. Then we buy it later since we can’t shop together.

I am going to my parent’s house for the weekend. So I don’t know how much blogging I will be doing. Hopefully some but I am not making any promises. Also, I am in the process of doing some work on my blog but it will change nothing visibly. I just need to tweak a few things. This is a pretty big project so it might take awhile.

I will be back here Sunday definitely. Till then…

Happy December!

Hello all. Early this morning, I posted the next edition of Weekly Shorts called Quest for Patty Poops a Lot.This a humor story featuring a man named Grumpy Shorts. I did have some trouble with this story because like I said before what I think is funny may not be funny to others. Nonetheless, the story came together when I was thinking about Black Friday. So you can probably imagine the basics of the story. I do think it is somewhat humourous I suppose. Final word count 842.

I have been doing pretty well with keeping the word limit around 1000. So what is coming up? Two science fiction stories featuring non human chracters and another fantasy and that is it? So how can you keep Weekly Shorts going? Easy as pie submit your idea to Weekly Shorts and let’s have some fun!

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When it comes to someone dying, I have a hard time talking about it but writing it, that I can do. Since last week I have been thinking a lot about my grandmother who passed away on Tuesday. You always think you should never be taken for granted that someone would be there forever but they aren’t.

Everything happened so quick and what it boils down to is I can’t believe that she is gone. I have a whole lifetime of memories of my grandmother and I am thankful for that because some people don’t have that opportunity. I spent a couple of weeks during the summer at my grandparents house. She took me to work, and McDonald’s. This one time I was writing on her couch when I fell off the couch and got stuck between the couch and table. She had to come and move the table. That is just one memory I have. Still I will miss her.

It is times like these that we have to believe in life after death. I simply can not believe that when you die you are done. Whether it be heaven, summerlands, ghosts, or reincarnation, the soul has to live. It just has to. I hope where the soul goes when the body dies it is in the same place as my grandfather because I could never accept that she is gone completely.

Looking at his watch for the fifth time since he arrived, Grumpy discovered it was 4 am, only one more hour until the store opened. This was not how he wanted to spend his morning, standing in a line in sub zero temperatures. He had much better things to do such as sleeping, making pancakes, subsequently eating a man sized stack of pancakes, and topping the day off with a marathon of Laverne and Shirley.

Today was supposed to be his special relax day nut the wife conned him into buying the Patty Poops A Lot doll for Maggie, his granddaughter. Of course, he has a soft spot for Maggie. The wife promised him a pot roast dinner with all fixings and that sealed the deal. How could he possibly pass up beef for Laverne and Shirley?

When asked why the wife couldn’t go, she told she had to be somewhere else. Patty Poops A Lot was only on sale at one store. He looked at the swelling line. Grumpy planned on getting there earlier but he needed coffee and it’s a rule one must have doughnuts with coffee. A white haired woman talked to her friend about the Patty doll.

Thinking of Maggie’s smile when she opened the doll, made him determined to get that doll. Although he was more of a bah-hum bug type, Maggie lit his world. When she learned to talk she tried calling him Grampy but it came out Grumpy and it stuck.

The store lights flickered on. People started pushing forward to the door. Grump couldn’t understand how his wife did this insanity. It didn’t matter; he would be successful in buying the doll and eating a roast beef dinner. The doors opened. Floods of people raced into the store. Shopping carts were snatched up like hot brownies out of the oven. People ran in one direction- toys.

Damn Grumpy thought. He hadn’t really run in maybe 15 years but he had to. Even we he had to relieve himself, he never hurried. Catching sight of the granny that stood in front of him, she dashed wildly to the doll section. Oh hell Grumpy thought I can take her.

Then it hit like a punch in the gut, he had to go, the coffee was coming through. Granny saw him coming and shoved him. This angered Grumpy. He forgot about his aching bladder, catching up with Granny and pushed her to the floor, laughing as he ran.

“Hey you could have broken my hip!” she yelled.

Up ahead he saw the Patty Poops A Lot. There was one left and he had to get it. Grumpy didn’t care who stood in his way he knocked or pushed them over. Success! He grabbed the package.

“That’s my doll, old man,” said the white haired granny.

“No, I got it fair and square,” Grumpy told her.

She reached for it; he swung around feeling his back crack and took off through the myriad of people. Rapidly, Granny caught up to him. Up ahead sat a bin of large stuffed animals, he grabbed a huge bear and threw it at her. It whacked her in the face.

“Give me that doll!” she shouted. He bought himself an extra minute. Remembering his bladder, he considered his options. No, he had to buy the doll and get the hell out of the store.

Grumpy weaved through aisles. Finding himself in the bed linen aisle, he tossed the neat packages of sheets on the floor. But she tricked him and came up the other end. She got in one good smack and grabbed the doll, cackling as she took off.

Grumpy followed her; she didn’t go to the checkout. “Not so smart,” he said to himself. He stayed close. Apparently, her plumbing needed to be drained. She went to the bathroom. Her friend stood guard. Someone she knew approached her and the gab fest began. Grumpy made his move, snatching the doll. The friend made a commotion. He dashed to the cash registers.

He heard granny yelling. The lines were too long so he paid each person $10 to let him go in front of them. He was next in line.

The tired cashier rang up the toy. He handed her his MasterCard. Since granny didn’t pay anyone they wouldn’t let her cut in line.

“Mr. Shorts,” the cashier said, “our machine is down, do you have another way to pay?”

Somehow granny closed the gap. He looked in his wallet and had a $100 bill. “Give me my doll, old man,” granny said. Giving the cashier the hundred, he grabbed the bad and rushed out the door. He heard the cashier call for him to come back. It didn’t matter. Still in super speed, he drove off.

A few minutes later he pulled out and relieved himself. Hot toy of the season on sale for $30, $240 is the price he paid to retain the doll; Maggie’s joy, priceless. Of course, Grumpy could have bought the doll at full price and save a lot more.

He looked at his watch. He had plenty of time for a nap, pancakes, the Laverne and Shirley marathon and juicy pot roast. His day wasn’t ruined after all.

A special thanks to I am a Lover of Children’s Literature at My 2 Cents 4 the Day for help with this story!!

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I must say Johnny Depp has come a long way but I think his niche are men a little off balanced. It is a great thing to tell you, that Johnny Depp is starring a new a movie, Sweeny Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. This is pretty cool and I think he is perfect for the part of Sweeny Todd. For those who have never seen the hit Broadway musical, Sweeny Todd is a story of revenge, plain and simple sweet revenge. Visit the official Sweeney Todd movie site for more information.

The fun doesn’t stop there. Have you ever committed revenge on someone, have the insane urge to confess your deepest darkest secrets, then confess to the demon barber . It is cathartic. I will tell you my story… Is it diabolical, is it revengeful? That is for you to decide.

I think everyone can agree that little brothers are the most annoying creatures on the planet. My brother is no different. He used to drive me crazy and my step sisters as well. This one day during summer vacation, he was getting under our skin, constantly nagging us and threatening on tattling on something or another. We concocted the perfect plan. We stuffed my brother in the computer room and shut the door. We took a piece of rope tying one end to the door knob. Then we pulled the rope tight and went out the back door and tied the other end to the chain link fence. He tried to get out but he couldn’t. Too bad for us, he had a phone in their and called my mom. She made us release him. I feel so much better getting that off my chest.

Still craving more stuff about Sweeny Todd then visit Sweeny Todd on Myspace . I checked out the movie trailer and I am excited to see this movie. It looks like it be just as good as Sleepy Hollow. If you haven’t seen the trailer, you can view it at the official Sweeney Todd movie site This movie is set to release Christmas Day.

Hello all. I checked out feedburner yesterday and I discovered on weird thing and had an idea for another. First the weird thing, I noticed I had 2 people come from this site to my story called “The Fisherman’s Daughter” ( a weekly shorts story by the way) anyway I check the site out myself. The page my story was found was about fishing. All sorts of fishing news and of the like. Well the anchor text for my link was something really strange. I can’t remember what it is now but it had nothing to do with my story. Then underneath was a little snippet of my story. Now I could see if this was a feed but it wasn’t since the snippet was towards the end of the story. When did the mouse over the link, it did come to me. Just weird in my opinion. On one hand it is saying that my stuff id good enough to appear on other places, it is kind of like a compliment!

Then I kept browsing my stats and I came upon a Google search for ” acrostic Santa Clause” I don’t have one written but I thought to myself, why not? It never dawned on me before to write for Santa. I think it would fit nicely with my children’s poems. Possibly later tonight or sometime this week, I will write the Santa poem and post it. Hopefully the person comes back again.

Speaking of posting… I will be posting the next edition of weekly shorts in the nearest future. Perhaps, if I get off line I will accomplish this.

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Hello all. Someone left a comment on my blog a while ago and said I should try ezines. I looked some up the other day and I am definitely interested in sending some stories away. They don’t pay much, the one ezine I looked at payed $15. Not too bad for starting out. This might just be the route I should go to get my feet wet.

The problem is, I can’t submit my Weekly Shorts stories because they are already published on my blog and many of them say they can’t be previously published including electronic format. I have one story that is considered flash fiction and I can easily delete that from here and from my writing profile. I just don’t want to delete the Weekly Shorts only because they belong here. Poetry is different, I can easily delete it and try publishing.

If anyone knows of some great ezines to submit to let me know. There is so much information when you search for something, I can be looking all day.

Okay have a nice day!