M. Dupré

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“A Christmas to Remember” by M. Dupré

Submitted to Contest #73

Stacy had drawn the short straw on Christmas Eve. Fate was holding her hand when she drew it.Nearly all the staff at Woodrow Hill Elder Care were sick or quarantined with COVID-19. Stacy wasn’t among them. She had already tested positive a week after Thanksgiving. Fourteen days and a couple of negative tests later, she returned to work - just in time to cover the schedules of her stricken colleagues.The thirty-year-old health care worker felt tired and lonely. She just wanted to forget the Christmas of 2020.Stacy checked her mask before open...

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I'm currently working on "The Blue" - a first-contact novel set in the near future. It's taking a while because my typing is atrocious.