A Scottish Christmas

By Karen Lesley

A Victorian Christmas ghost short story set in the Scottish Highlands, meant to be read while the mince pies are cooking and the mulled wine is mulling.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Karen Lesley
• Release date: Dec 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005414146

Karen Lesley

karen lesley is 51 years old and loves trees. She also enjoys 19 century Russian literature, detective novels and running hard core hills.She has written five full length novels and two collection of short stories and is interested in the darker aspects of human history.

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A Scottish Christmas

by Karen Lesley

Copyright 2021 Karen Lesley

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It was Christmas 1895 – all the awfulness ahead of us – unknown- and I was a young man.

I looked at Milly and we caught each other’s eyes.

The fire roared and cracked, spinning and dancing with red hot life, and chestnuts began to pop and burst and Elizabeth – the young always know best – grabbed one, opened her hand, immediately dropping it, blowing, and exclaiming, onto her hand.

I hadn’t met your mother yet – that was the next thing to come.

Teddy, Winifred, and James – grown with children of their own, husband