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Submitted by writers on Reedsy Prompts to our weekly writing contest. Grab your stocking and set out the milk and cookies! These Christmas short stories will warm your heart and have you whistling Christmas carols before you know it.

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Christmas Curse

Submitted to Contest #73

Christmas Curse                  Once upon a time, there was a pretty girl who named Angelique in town of Quebec. Everyone loved her since she was born. They said she had the eyes of an angel and skin was so pure and clear like a crystal snow. She had the people who hated her the most. The people were her closed relatives by her uncle of mother’s family. The aunt and her daughters hated her all the time because her looks and characteristics were different fr...

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True Love's Proposal

Submitted to Contest #73

"God, I've had a crazy week," Madeline sighed, taking another sip of her hot chocolate and curling up in the corner of the couch under a furry blanket.  "Oh, come on," Carol flopped onto the couch next to her best friend. "I nearly got fired. Remember my evil coworker, Danielle? She totally threw me under the bus at our work’s Christmas party. She spilled wine all over our boss’s white dress, then blamed it all on me.” “I just came back from my parents’. I spent last night there, but something really weird happened this morning. They’...

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My Little Christmas Angel

Submitted to Contest #73

Night falls over the mysterious forest of silver moon. Inside the forest, there is a peaceful town called Lunaria. Houses are built with woods, filled with unknown flowers, and the people are turning in for the night.The town is protected by a deep powerful elvish spell to avoid being seen by outsiders who will threaten this land. But today, the worry about intruders invading is under the sod… for now.“…*sigh! * …Luthiel, how many times do I have to tell you don’t stay up so late?”Luthiel’s mother name is Rina, she’s a beautiful elven woman ...

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Three French Hens

Submitted to Contest #73

Three French Hens  From January to December was nothing more than one heartache after another. I began to lose all hope for the New Year. All I could hear from within myself was, “Don’t lose your joy, don’t lose your spirit. Easier said than done.  On December 17th 2020 imagine you’ve received the date for your final divorce hearing in the mail! you feel all the loving feelings are vanished and the flicker of hope has been blown out! You tried with every ounce of you to stay calm and not to allow ...

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Five Golden Rings

Shortlisted for Contest #73 ⭐️

I took two more steps on the snowy sidewalk and somehow felt like I hadn’t moved at all. I’d been in line for at least fifteen minutes. I was out of time. I craned my neck and glared down the line at the bright windows of the chocolate shop. Christmas lights glittered behind the glass. The long line of people ahead of me, all spaced six feet apart, were transfixed, at the chocolate delights under the twinkling glow. I glanced down at my phone. Less than fifteen minutes. I wasn’t even at the bus stop yet. I looked up, groaned, and stepped ou...

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Of Songs and Feathers

Submitted to Contest #73

The air was cold and crisp, the scent of pine and roasted chestnuts lingering in the air as Sari stumbled down the sidewalk, her shopping bags piled precariously high in her arms. Somehow every year Sari's To-Do List grew longer and the weeks leading up to Christmas disappeared like melted snow. The Christmas Calendar in Dreamer's Square indicated only 7 days left until Christmas. People from all over Wisconsin flocked to Dreamer's Haven for the week long Christmas festival and the International Birds Show. It was bright, colorful, noisy...

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On the Fifth Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me…

Submitted to Contest #73

           The first time a guy got down on one knee and asked me to marry him, I was five years old. He was six. Max Wade, with his cherub dimples, encyclopedic knowledge of Saturday morning cartoons, and a slight lisp from an ironically missing set of two front teeth. He lived next door. Our families had been friends forever: backyard barbeques every summer, tandem camping trips or sledding excursions, and yes, and annual Christmas Eve party.        ...

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Love Hexagon

Submitted to Contest #73

It was Christmas Eve. I had been so caught up in my work that I forgot all about. Little did I know, that would be the day I met him. Or should I say.. them?1 : MatthewI ran across the road rushing across the sidewalk with a list of things I needed to buy from multiple stores. My long brown locks tumbled in the freezing wind. As I walked into the first store with my head down looking at my list, I ran into someone. Someone tall, and blonde. This was so embarrassing, I felt like I wanted to die right then and there. The man I ran into helped ...

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Styx 'n Stones

Submitted to Contest #73

Shoulder to shoulder, musicians mingled. Tuxedoed waiters served drinks and escorted people to their reserved tables. White elephant gifts, large and small, stacked high under the tree, waited to be opened. Those participating in the exchange eyed the gifts as people added to the growing pile. The anticipation of the opening and fighting over preferred gifts occupied the minds of one and all. Christmas music drifted in soft tones as the guests conversed before the Christmas concert this evening on the delta. The restaurant overlooking the wa...

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A Christmas Crow: The Heartwarming Tale of a Murder

Submitted to Contest #73

“Looking back, it was one of the most surreal places to sit two days before Christmas. The man in the grey suit and the holly printed tie was a far cry from the visit with Santa I had been looking forward to. But Momma had coaxed me into my new Sunday dress, filling me with promises of gifts from Great-Grandma Zelma. My memories of my great-grandma are few and sporadic. She had been eccentric, a bit too eccentric for much of our family. I now realize how shocked my parents must have been to receive an invitation to the reading of her last...

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Alana & Kane

Submitted to Contest #73

KANE:Alana and I met seven years ago on Christmas Eve. My coworker had just broken up with his girlfriend and was throwing a sort of anti-love Christmas party. My parents live in another state so I didn’t really have any other plans. That’s how this all started. I wore the ugliest Christmas sweater I could find at target which featured 3 cats of different colors wearing ugly sweater of their own. I arrived a little after 9 to way more people than I expected. Were we all this cynical? I found the drinks table and faded into a corner with a wh...

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Dear Celia

Submitted to Contest #73

Dear Celia, This may take some time to read, so get comfortable. Make yourself a cup of coffee and get your soft blanket and relax on the couch. I know I’ve never written a letter for you before, but maybe this is the perfect way to start. Celia, we have been together since the simple days of high school sports games, going to the movies every weekend, having the most romantic first kiss at senior prom. Now look at us, we work so hard and yet still manage to make time for each other. You’re my world, Celia. You make me happier and happier ea...

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Engagement Forest

Submitted to Contest #73

Engagement Forest1034 wordsAh, my favorite night of the year, Christmas Eve. The snow dances in the air lazily, melting as it lands upon my face. It’s dark and glittery outside and the trees surrounding us wear the snowflakes like a formal gown, such an idyllic scene. I sit and let my five senses run free, always unnoticed as couples pass my hiding spot. The news named the vast, barely touched patch of land “Engagement Forest” but the real name is Theodore Roberts Park, after one of our local founders of the same name. It’s the perfect ...

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What my Knees Knew (even if I didn’t)

Submitted to Contest #73

It was Christmas Eve. Not that it mattered at Laster and Holt. My coworkers grumbled, Scrooge, under their breath. We were counting the minutes to five o’clock. With any luck, this would be my last holiday at the law firm. I was waiting for a call from Hensley, Harper and Barren. Did they want me? I had to quit soon or I’d go crazy. “Lauren? Mr. Laster wants to see you at 4:30,” his executive secretary informed me as she passed my office around three. I saw her lips turn into a smirk before she left. Shoot. No way would I be out of her...

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The Merry Christmas Bird

Submitted to Contest #73

The Merry Christmas Bird Suzanne Marsh "You're going to give her a what for Christmas? Vic, she is six years old! Do you seriously think she can take care of a parakeet? Vic, gave me one of his cockeyed grins: "Lori, we can call the parakeet Merry Christmas, Ali will enjoy the bird, maybe she can teach it to talk." Lori looked him right in the eye; "Look Vic, I have already flushed enough fish down the toilet to stock Lake Michigan. Remember the frog, when it got loose, who was it that had to catch it again...it sure wasn't you, it was me!...

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