Friday, 29 August 2025

Tales Of Ye Olde Christmas

I was having  a bit of a clear out of my computer and i found some things which i thought i had long deleted or just plain forgot about such as some half written blog posts, pictures and a folder within a folder within a folder of part written Christmas stories.
Back in 2020, during the lock-down i was asked if i wanted to contribute to a Christmas Short Story Anthology and i said why not and began scribbling down some ideas and even began writing a few but then time kind of got away from me so i missed the deadline and then they lay forgotten in that Folder, until today.
I threw down a lot of ideas and narrowed my final submission ideas down to either:

1) A story about a time traveller who goes back to witness the first Christmas and accidentally makes a few changes to it
2) Santa’s elves going on strike and forcing him to recruit famous Christmas icons to help
3) A Hedgehog who tries to stay awake during hibernation to see Christmas
4) Survivors of a future post-apocalyptic world trying to recreate Christmas
5) Christmas decorations comes to life to cheer up a recently widowed wife
6) A Snowman who comes back each winter but who wants to experience the rest of the year as well
7) A toy in a second hand shop which looks for a new child to love it
8) Aliens experiencing and observing Christmas on Earth,
9) The visits of the ghosts to Scrooge as witnessed by his neighbours
10) A single snowflake with the power to change even the hardest heart
11) A mildly horror one based loosely on the song Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Most are just skeletons of stories waiting to be fleshed out and some are just a few lines waiting to be completely written but i would like to have a go at completing them if i get around to it and putting them on here in December and if someone who is a far better story writer than me (i tend to write too much and lose the flow of the story in the editing stage) who wants to pick them up and improve them, then feel free.

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