Dear Santa (A Love Wish)

By Leenna Naidoo

Does Santa still have the magic to help her find the right man? Nothing short of a letter or two will tell.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Learning To Surf Publishing
• Release date: Sep 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310651014

Leenna Naidoo

About LeennaLeenna writes cross-genre suspense, romance, and dabbles in sci-fi/fantasy. She also reads the tarot. Her most recent attempts to channel Terry Pratchett-style fiction can be found in Quest For The Wholly Pale, published by FV Press. When not writing, she often tries her hand at anything vaguely artistic.Leenna’s most unnerving experiences include: looking a red kangaroo in the eye, flipping pancakes for the first time ever in front of her class, interviewing Alan Dean Foster (even though it was email), and teaching a hellhound how to share a biscuit. Sometimes she writes about these and other less nerve-wracking things; sometimes she doesn’t.She blogs and shares updates on www.leennanaidoo.wordpress.com and www.leennascreativebox.wordpress.com. Her tarot resources and videos are shared on her Patreon and her YouTube channel as Writerstarot With Leenna.Otherwise, she wanders aimlessly down rabbit-holes on Facebook and occassionally other social media sites looking for her next story idea.

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Dear Santa

By Leenna Naidoo

Copyright 2011/2014 Leenna Naidoo

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Contents

Dear Reader

Dear Santa

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Excerpt from Settle Down Now

Dear Reader

I can't quite remember if I wrote this story in December 2010 or around April 2011. What I do remember is the events leading up to the kernel of this story. It was the Christmas of 2010, one of my most perfect Christmas's ever.

I was teaching English in Yulin, China. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, we sang Christmas songs off-tune (yes, with mumbled words) while I played Santa's secretary (a grammar policewoman); as well as being a part-time elf along with my other elf colleagues. Decorations were like that of my childhood – the best homemade. Everyone (ok, mostly me) wished that it would snow. I had never had a white Christmas before and Yulin is famous for its winter snow-covered dunes. Despite being in the heart of Shaanxi Province, far from most Western influences, the homely, warm spirit of Christmas was everywhere. We had our hugely successful school Christmas party under brilliantly clear night skies, then got ready to go to school on Christmas and Boxing Day as these aren't holidays in Shaanxi Province. And that, I thought, was the end of Christmas.

Christmas morning brought something miraculous. I was grinning, crunching my way to breakfast through overnight snow, one of the first people out that morning. It