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    We Wish You a Merry Christmas
    We Wish You a Merry Christmas
    We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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    We Wish You a Merry Christmas

    By Linda Jordan

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    Milena’s alone, broke and working at a soul sucking retail job during the Christmas season. Then she meets Maggie, who has ideas about how to help. But who’s helping whom?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateDec 20, 2014
    ISBN9781311877222
    We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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    Linda Jordan

    Linda Jordan writes fascinating characters, visionary worlds, and imaginative fiction. She creates both long and short fiction, serious and silly. She believes in the power of healing and transformation, and many of her stories follow those themes.In a previous lifetime, Linda coordinated the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop as well as the Reading Series. She spent four years as Chair of the Board of Directors during Clarion West’s formative period. She’s also worked as a travel agent, a baker, and a pond plant/fish sales person, you know, the sort of things one does as a writer.Currently, she’s the Programming Director for the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest.Linda now lives in the rainy wilds of Washington state with her husband, daughter, four cats, a cluster of Koi and an infinite number of slugs and snails.

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      We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Linda Jordan

      We Wish You a Merry Christmas

      by

      Linda Jordan

      Contents

      ~We Wish You a Merry Christmas

      ~About the Author

      ~Copyright Information

      We Wish You a Merry Christmas

      Milena Alexander didn’t know how she was going to deal with Christmas again. She sat in the bustling coffee shop at a tiny table by herself, sipping a skinny latte with rice milk sprinkled with cinnamon and nutmeg. She’d added too much cinnamon. It almost made her sneeze.

      The woman at the next table had two squirming children, one young enough to have a diaper top poking out the top of her pants. The other not much older. The woman was texting on her phone oblivious to her two kids arguing over a teddy bear and sipping their drinks; hot chocolate from the look of the rings around their mouths.

      The sound system blared the latest version of ‘We Wish You a Merry Christmas’, sung by some pop star whose voice was familiar, but she couldn’t put a name or face to. Milena was tired of hearing Christmas music. It had been nearly a month since work had started playing them. Every single day, every single minute. She could hardly wait till January.

      The coffee shop was filled with people carrying huge bags of Christmas presents. All the nearby stores were having sales. Milena had thought that coming here might cheer her up, get her into the spirit of things. All she could do was look at everyone who had money to buy gifts and be content with her splurge of a latte. Christmas was miserable when there was no one to share it with. She didn’t even have enough money to buy herself out of a funk.

      Christmas used to be magical for her. When had that ended? Why had she lost that?

      She didn’t have to think hard about that. She’d lost the magic when Mom and Dad died on Christmas Eve.

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