Feelgood Original Christmas Stories

By Justin Sanebridge

A dryad protects her tree against becoming a Christmas tree, a snowman
changes a little boy's life, and more funny, emotional, feelgood
Christmas stories from the mind of Justin Sanebridge.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leg Iron Books
• Release date: Jul 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005712822

Justin Sanebridge

Justin Sanebridge is a retired barrister, now living in Indonesia.

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Feelgood

Original

Christmas

Stories

Justin Sanebridge

Copyright Notice and Disclaimer

SMASHWORDS EDITION

© 2021 Justin Sanebridge. All Rights Reserved.

Cover image © 2021 H. K. Hillman

First published in 2021 by Leg Iron Books

The characters and situations in this book are entirely imaginary and bear no relation to any real person or actual happenings.

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Contents

Copyright notice

Introduction by Leg Iron Books

Santa and the Taliban

The Unique Christmas Tree

Christmas with Balls

The Last Writer

The Christmas Present from Rasputin

The Christmas Bomb

The Dead Man’s Gift

The Christmas Dinner

The Snowman who Changed his Life

About the Author

Leg Iron Books

Introduction

H.K. Hillman for Leg Iron Books

Justin Sanebridge was one of the very first authors to publish with Leg Iron Books. His novel, ‘The Goddess of Protruding Ears’ was later rewritten by him in Dutch as ‘De Godin van de Flaporen’ and is an entertaining read.

Later, he entered short stories for the Underdog Anthologies, the first Leg Iron Books author to have a novel published before Underdog Anthology stories, and so far the only one to have done that (I don’t count my previous work because it was published before Leg Iron Books existed and took it over).

Justin is, so far, in four of the Underdog Anthologies. These stories are from two of them (yes, nine stories in two anthologies!) because this collection is Christmas themed. He has another four in the other two anthologies.

Based in Bali, Indonesia but originally European (he prefers not to be too specific) he is fluent in English, Dutch, German, French, Indonesian and Antwerpian.

This is a short collection, but we all hope to see much more of his work in the future. I’ve said enough – I’ll let Justin continue with his stories from here.

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Santa and the Taliban

Philip sipped the eggnog from his cup and surveyed the young women sitting attentively on the sofa. Do you know the story of Santa and the Taliban? he asked them, dropping them a conspiratorial wink.

The young women laughed and smiled back at him, tucking their legs up beneath them which Philip took as a sign to continue with his Christmas tale. He took another sip of eggnog and began.

Santa was about to leave for his annual trip to Earth when one of his elves reminded him that he had to visit Afghanistan. What? Afghanistan? Santa said. Do you mean that Muslim country where women walk around dressed in tents? Who could possibly want me there?

We’ve received a letter from two little girls, the elf replied. "They’re twins called Aisha and Afifa. They’re eight years old and all they want is to go to