Charlie Fisher

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“2023 Gots ‘n’ Gaves.” by Charlie Fisher

Submitted to Contest #230

Veteran of 17 family Christmas get-togethers since first becoming a burden on the university system, Alan Blaneford, lecturer in IT, hobby designer of crossword-solving software tools and sometime walking magazine contributor, completes the annual accounting of gifts given and gifts received. It’s another ruse to pass the time during the four days together with the extended family – it feels like many more – of what might be the very last Christmas of this sort, given the condition of both parents. It’s both a rolling evaluation, and a start...

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