Shotgun Christmas
By Steve Vernon
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DON'T let the scary cover fool you. This story is heart-warming.
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There is a big old sledding hill not more than two or three good snowballs’ worth of distance from our home, just behind Hank Macabee’s house. That hill was waiting for me and my brand new toboggan. It’s one of those sneak-up kind of hills with a long slow ride down that picks up speed as it goes with a bump-hump at the end that you never see coming.
I didn’t see what was coming next, either.
The Christmas tree crashed through Hank Macabee’s bay window. The tree stand clattered behind it and bounced with a clank on Hank’s half-frozen front lawn. Hank came through the door, shotgun in hand. He wore a Nova Scotia plaid bathrobe and a pair of fuzzy blue Smurf slippers. He pumped and blasted the Christmas tree, shattering the decorations that escaped the initial picture window caber toss.
He continued pumping and blasting until his shotgun ran dry...
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Shotgun Christmas - Steve Vernon
STEVE VERNON
SHOTGUN
CHRISTMAS
TWO
CHRISTMAS
TALES
Table of Contents
Title Page
Shotgun Christmas
Shotgun Christmas
Scalping Santa
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Shotgun Christmas – Two Christmas Tales
By Steve Vernon
Cover Art: Erin Lark
ISBN-13: 9780988097278
First Printing – December 4, 2012
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DEDICATION
To My Brother Dan – Many toboggan rides ago.
Shotgun Christmas
There is a big old sledding hill not more than two or three good snowballs’ worth of distance from our home, just behind Hank Macabee’s house. That hill was waiting for me and my brand new toboggan. It’s one of