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Seven-year old Henry Burrows is anxious to know whether Santa Claus is real. In the face of his father’s lay-off and his mother’s fears that Christmas might not come this year, it grows harder to believe. It would take a miracle for his family to celebrate Christmas now. The kind of miracle that only the real Santa could provide. If the old man in the Sears & Roebuck store can somehow grant Henry’s wish ...
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Randall Allen Dunn
Randall Allen Dunn was raised on a steady diet of James Bond, Batman, Star Trek and Indiana Jones. His study of stage acting in high school and college helped him learn how to create vivid, compelling characters. He now shares his love of action, adventure and infinite possibilities through novels and short stories, the writing classes he conducts, and his website, Character Entertainment, dedicated to Building Character Through Fiction, at www.CharacterEnt.com. You can find Randall Allen Dunn’s ebooks at Smashwords and wherever online books are sold, and you can follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads. Please send comments or feedback to: Randall@CharacterEnt.com
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Santa's Chair - Randall Allen Dunn
Santa’s Chair
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Randall Allen Dunn
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Santa’s Chair
Henry couldn’t see any bright lights or sparkling Christmas decorations from his level. Nothing but a noisy blur of dark coats and mittens rushing and jostling back and forth. It seemed every other kid and their dog had jammed themselves into the Sears and Roebuck department store. All pushing, shoving, and lunging to get past Henry and his parents. He could barely hear Bing Crosby singing Christmas is a’comin’
through the store’s PA system. The rich smell of gingerbread cookies filled his nose from an unseen bakery somewhere nearby, for a few delicious moments before it faded away.
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Henry’s Pa grumped at a small woman in a woolen trenchcoat as she bumped past him without apology. The gray-haired lady hurried on past Walt Burrows, her head darting this way and that like a frantic chicken, probably searching for something she still needed to buy. Grown-ups were like that, always busy with things
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