Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Christmas Tale
    A Christmas Tale
    A Christmas Tale
    Ebook31 pages28 minutes

    A Christmas Tale

    By Travis Hill

    5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    He knows if you've been bad or good...

    The three Devlin boys are in trouble, and this year they might make it onto Santa's 'naughty' list.

    6,535 word short story

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTravis Hill
    Release dateMay 27, 2013
    ISBN9781301729593
    A Christmas Tale
    Author

    Travis Hill

    I'm an author in the Pacific Northwest. I live with my five completely worthless but awesome cats. I write stories I want to read that no one else is writing. My mailing list: https://www.angrygames.com Writes: Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror / Adult Fiction / Drama / Humor

    Read more from Travis Hill

    Related authors

    Related to A Christmas Tale

    Related ebooks

    Horror Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      How Wrong I Was…

      Aug 17, 2023

      How Wrong I Was…
      6 min read

    • Article

      My Word

      Jan 1, 2022

      My Word
      4 min read

    • Article

      Searching For Tommy And Rosie

      Mar 1, 2022

      Searching For Tommy And Rosie
      22 min read

    • Article

      Child’s Play

      Mar 10, 2023

      The blackmail began in the boys’ locker room. It started with Travis Downing’s least favorite person, Rory Paxton, cackling like a hyena behind his iPhone camera. Rory loved taking photos of boys while they were changing, making sure to capture just

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Bigger Person

      Jan 15, 2023

      The Bigger Person
      4 min read

    • Article

      On Making Friends With Raina Telgemeier

      Aug 26, 2019

      Our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles says the cartoonist Raina Telgemeier is almost like a personal friend to her own children, who fight over tattered copies of Telgemeier's graphic novels.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Dawn Neesom Mind Of My Own

      Nov 23, 2021

      Dawn Neesom Mind Of My Own
      3 min read

    • Article

      ‘The Trojan War Museum’: Featured Fiction from Ayse Papatya Bucak

      Aug 20, 2019

      An excerpt from O. Henry and Pushcart Prize winner Ayse Papatya Bucak’s debut collection. The post ‘The Trojan War Museum’: Featured Fiction from Ayse Papatya Bucak appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Hell Is A City in Texas

      Jun 14, 2021

      Hell Is A City in Texas
      10 min read

    • Article

      Mr. Rain Jacket

      May 20, 2019

      Mr. Rain Jacket
      10 min read

    • Article

      Who Is Generationz?

      Jul 27, 2021

      Wearing your hair in a side parting? Updating Facebook? If you’re still doing this, then it’s official, you’re old. Well, at least according to Generation Z, you are. Born between 1996 and 2009, they know everything there is to know about the interne

      4 min read

    • Article

      Elephants In The Zoom

      Mar 25, 2021

      Elephants In The Zoom
      2 min read

    • Article

      A Boy, A Sword, Then Carnage

      Oct 7, 2022

      A Boy, A Sword, Then Carnage
      9 min read

    • Article

      Cultural Prescription

      Nov 26, 2021

      Family misfortunes From David Lynch to Jonathan Franzen to Charles Ray, Guardian critics offer suggestions of culture that can mess you up at least as much as your mum and dad “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own w

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Ladies Book Club

      Apr 10, 2024

      “Our brains are shaped with the capability to care deeply but also to kill. This deep ambivalence is potentially problematic. A society filled with people who are inherently very compassionate and very violent might prove unstable.”1 1Emile Bruneau,

      25 min read

    • Article

      Cleaning Up Crime

      Aug 5, 2019

      YOU CAN’T CLEAN PEOPLE UP. YOU CAN’T ORGANIZE them or kiss them goodbye, thanking them for their service when they no longer spark joy in your heart. There are these nagging, inconvenient things called feelings attached to people that you can’t bundl

      2 min read

    • Article

      The MEN we LOVED and LOST

      Oct 30, 2019

      The MEN we LOVED and LOST
      8 min read

    • Article

      The End of Learning

      Mar 10, 2024

      A bullet ended Paul Channeler’s childhood at age six when it passed through his abdomen and into the brain of his best friend, Myra. He had assumed he would marry her one day; his mom and dad were best friends; it made perfect sense. He knew nothing

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Millions Least Anticipated: Post-Coronavirus Fiction

      Apr 8, 2020

      For nearly four weeks now, I’ve been practicing social distancing. When I’m not homeschooling or making beans or wiping up dog urine, I’ve thought a lot about what kind of fiction will come out of this crisis. It won’t all be good. The post The Mill

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Redacted

      Mar 31, 2020

      The Redacted
      11 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Christmas Tale

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Christmas Tale - Travis Hill

      A Christmas Tale

      By Travis Hill

      Copyright 2013

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Cover Art by Dawn Smith @ Dark Dawn Creations

      Chapter 1

      Paul’s three children sat on the rug in the living room watching him pace about in front of the fire. They’d seen their father angry before, but never so mad that he’d refused to yell or even speak to them for this long. The smell of burned foam and possibly toxic chemicals still lingered in their noses.

      Donny glanced over at the couch. His frightened eyes took in the large scorch marks that covered one of the arms, as well as the huge hole that had burned into the cushion next to the arm. He looked up at the ceiling to see the black soot that radiated out in a dark sunburst pattern above the couch. Mikey sat on the floor with his head down, silently crying. Terry, the ringleader of the group, watched with fear as his father paced back and forth.

      Your mother will be home in about ten minutes, Paul informed them as he stopped pacing and towered over them.

      Donny, at five years old, was too young to understand the lack of anger in his father’s voice, and had started to smile at this news until his dad shifted The Frown to him. Mikey, seven years old and the quietest of the three, had enough experience at his young age to understand that when his father didn’t yell at them when they were in trouble, it meant that the storm had not yet arrived. Terry tried to be brave and even defiant, but when The Frown settled on the nine year old boy, he shriveled under its power quickly and put his head down.

      "So, for the next ten minutes, you three will stand up and put your noses together. There will be no talking, no crying, nothing. You will think about what you’ve done, and what your mother is going to do when she sees your

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1