Laurie Boris is a freelance writer and
copyeditor. At one time, she was a magician’s assistant, although she was very
bad at it. She has been writing fiction for over twenty-five years and is the
award-winning author of six novels including her latest, A Sudden Gust of Gravity. When not hanging out with the universe of
imaginary people in her head, she enjoys baseball, reading, and avoiding
housework.
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How Mrs. Claus Got Her Groove Back
Emma Claus looked from the crackling log in the fireplace to
the cheerful cards on the mantel and the string of twinkling lights she’d woven
among them. But the yuletide trappings still left her cold. She’d tried
everything to awaken her Christmas spirit: hitting the Black Friday sales
online, reading letters from the children, baking tray after tray of cookies.
Even the sappiest of holiday movies failed to lift her mood. Even the ones with
Colin Firth.
Just to make sure she’d given Hollywood a fair shake, she
clicked the remote to the Hallmark Channel, which was showing the same
snowed-in romance brewing at the same over-decorated country inn. Emma merely
clucked her tongue. “Fools,” she said. “Do those innkeepers ever sleep? All
that work! Cooking and cleaning! Sweeping up pine needles, drizzling everything
with tinsel just so, tending the fires in every room and dusting twice a day
from all the ash…what kind of life is that?”
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