Write a short story about an inn-keeper wondering whether this will be their last holiday season in business.

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“Keeper of hopes” by Adnan Ferizović

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When I opened this place, I had high hopes. Father was always against it, repeating the same old saying that "I will become treasurer of other people secrets, and grow too old for listening to them" and mother didn't really help with her vision of "dirty people" vomiting all around her Damask roses in the garden next to my pub, that was, oh what a coincidence, in my backyard. Looking at that from today's perspective, they were actually right, but parents will be parents. If you don't resist them you cease to exist as a person, and if I, by a...

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“The Christmas Coins ” by Averi Carlson

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Cold snow pelted Alberto Oste’s back as he trudged through a foot of solid ice. The weather had been harsher for months and it was growing worse in the days leading up to the holidays. Mr. Oste was making his way back to his inn from picking up a new shipment of potatoes and beans. An old but wiry man, Mr. Oste was hardworking and never took a day off. He had short graying hair he was short, shorter than most, but he had grown strong from lifting boxes for his business. He set down the box he had been carrying and pulled his weathered j...

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“Christmas at The Inn” by Jen Ponig

Submitted to Contest #21

‘Tis the season to be jolly, but we are not, not in the least. Our country has been pulled inside out. Wages have been cut in half. Businesses like mine suffer. Many people have locked their shops and restaurants because there are no patrons, or from fear of thieves. The banks have closed their cold doors. The hospitals and orphanages are too full to open theirs. Beggar children have multiplied in the streets during the day. Gangs of thugs patrol them at night. The spirit of Christmas is obscured by the hunger in our bellies. The Inn si...

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Write a short story about an inn-keeper wondering whether this will be their last holiday season in business.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 33 stories

“Keeper of hopes” by Adnan Ferizović

“The Christmas Coins ” by Averi Carlson

“Christmas at The Inn” by Jen Ponig

🌟 Similar prompts

You live in a neighborhood where lots of people go out of town for the holidays. But lately, this has been resulting in an increased number of break-ins.

Just before Valentine's Day, a long-lost relative you've never heard of enters your life.

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You are a bartender working a night shift when a group of people come in on a Valentine's Day pub crawl.

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