I was half way down a bottle – sorry; er, glass of port the other day, when it occurred to me that nothing sells like an Irish writer’s horrible Christmas. The bleaker the better. These are not “but we were happy” stories; these are stories where nobody is safe. Endings are sour. And nostalgia exists merely to be rammed…
Tag: Christmas stories
A whole host of Guest Posts for December. Christmas stories from around the world…
I’m guesting today over on Annmarie Miles’ fiction blog, with a little piece for Christmas. Annmarie had the mighty idea of advent-calendaring her blog, posting one piece of short-short fiction from all over the world every day from now until December 24th. I’m very proud to be first up, for December 1st, with a flash…
Tara Sparling writes 