Calling Christmas: Romance Video Game

By Chrissy Wissler

Megan, a recent hire and the newest video game programmer, slouches behind her double-wide computer screen. Hiding, her face hot, pressing the phone tight against her ear. Somehow, the shrieks of her mother still echoing around the office.

Miss Thanksgiving? Christmas?

And now everyone knows...

Including her boss, Kyle.

A story about a young woman who sets out on her own and builds a new life for herself... even if that means not coming home for the holidays. Thankfully, holidays and magic and new possibilities often go hand-in-hand. "Calling Christmas," another story set in the heartwarming Romance Video Game series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blue Cedar Publishing
• Release date: Feb 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386618720

Chrissy Wissler

Chrissy’s short fiction has appeared in the anthologies: Fiction River: Risk-Takers, Fiction River Presents: Legacies, Fiction River Presents: Readers' Choice, Deep Magic, and When Dreams Come True (writing as Christen Anne Kelley). She writes fantasy and science fiction, as well as a softball, contemporary series for both romance and young adult (Little League Series and Home Run). Before turning to fiction, Chrissy also wrote many nonfiction articles for publications such as Montana Outdoors, Women in the Outdoors, and Jakes Magazine. In 2009, Inside Kung Fu magazine awarded her with their ‘Writer of the Year’ award. Follow her blog on being a parent-writer at Parents and Prose.

Book preview

Calling Christmas

Calling Christmas

A Romance Video Game Story

Chrissy Wissler

Blue Cedar Publishing

Contents

Calling Christmas

Open your Heart. Make a Wish.

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About the Author

Calling Christmas

Megan slouched further into her cubicle, hiding behind her two wide, computer screens and pressed her cell to her ear. It was no use.

Her mother's shrieking still escaped.

The quiet floor seemed to get even quieter and the only thing Megan heard was her mother's snappy, shrilling temper. Her face heated.

Fantastic. The gossipers were probably circulating that the new programmer canceled her holiday plans and her psycho mother was ripping her a new one.

Nice. Good first impression and all.

She should never have answered the call. Not after the email she sent, canceling both her holiday trips. She knew better. Just like she'd known better when she'd packed up her Explorer and promised her mom she would come down for the holidays.

She'd known better because she knew exactly what her savings account looked like and her relocating to a whole other state had taken a serious dive into that nest egg.

So why did she answer the phone?

Because she was lonely. Because as much as she hated to admit it, she missed her family and with all the Christmas decorations in stores (they hadn't bothered to wait for Thanksgiving to pass), she couldn't help but miss them more.

But she couldn't go down. She couldn't afford it and she wouldn't ask for the money. Not after how hard she worked to show her parents she could live on her own, that she was a success.

Are you listening to me, Megan Anne?

Megan sighed. Yes, mother.

Good. Then you will go online tonight and book yourself a ticket. I won't take no for answer. I simply won't have my youngest daughter by herself for the holidays -

Mom, Megan cut in.

She watched as Kyle, her boss and the Lead Programmer, left the conference room, followed by the Creative Director and owner, Mark Ashe behind him. They both paused, clearly hearing her mother's displeasure, and Mark merely tipped his