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[READ: December 23, 2023] “Holiday”
This year my wife ordered me The Short Story Advent Calendar. This is my sixth time reading the Calendar–it’s a holiday tradition! Here’s what H&O says about the calendar this year.
The 2023 Short Story Advent Calendar is a deluxe box set of individual short stories from some of the best writers in North America and beyond. Now in its ninth year, the SSAC is back to once again bring readers a deluxe, peppermint-fresh collection of 25 short stories from some of the best writers in North America and beyond.
The author of this story was David Ryan. Each day has an online component with the author with a brief interview.
It’s December 23. David Ryan, author of Animals in Motion, would like to open a chequing account.
I happened to be listening to an audio book about a family of grifters–something that I feel like I don’t hear about all that often. And yet here was a random short story in this collection that is also about a grifter.
Jeremy and Sophia are in bed together. They have been a couple for a short time, and Sophia has just told him the Lost in the Bank story (her parents lost her in a bank). Jeremy: Were they high? Sophia: Probably. (more…)
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