Cornucopia by Melanie Jackson

Author:Melanie Jackson [Jackson, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 1479394459
Amazon: B009GT0I1W
Publisher: Brian Jackson
Published: 2012-09-24T23:00:00+00:00

A Christmas Without Carol

Blue.

My Aunt Carol was dead, to begin with. Nothing else could have convinced me to spend my Christmas Eve driving into the mountains to spend Christmas Day with my Uncle Albert. You see, Uncle Albert was a notorious humbug when it came to Christmas, he always had been and most likely always would be. I could see no reason to ruin my holiday trying to bring joy to the joyless.

“This will be the first Christmas that my brother Albert will spend without Carol,” my mother had argued. “I’m determined that he will spend it with family.”

And so Alex and I were drafted to be part of the family assigned to getting Uncle Albert through his first Christmas alone. Alex had even been so unlucky as to win the honor of driving, owing to the fact that he owned the nicest car.

Don’t get me wrong, I had great sympathy for Uncle Albert’s plight. He and his wife had been very close, Carol being his best and possibly only friend. And Aunt Carol had been a very sweet lady. I had memories from my early years of spending time with Aunt Carol, helping her to bake cookies in the kitchen while Uncle Albert worked out in his shed out back. You see, Uncle Albert was never particularly fond of kids and having me around only tended to make him nervous and upset.

Aunt Carol’s passing had not been an easy one. After several months spent suffering from colon cancer she had ultimately succumbed to the debilitating disease one night while Uncle Albert held her hand. I heard of this afterward from a visiting nurse since my uncle refused to say a word about her death. Though it didn’t seem possible, Uncle Albert had become even more morose and withdrawn after Aunt Carol was gone. He now seemed to do nothing but work and even argued that we should stay away for Christmas because he might be out working on a plumbing job. But my mother had insisted and she can be as stubborn as a pit bull worrying at a bone when she gets a plan in mind.

“So, remind me one more time why we’re spending our Christmas with a man who would rather we didn’t come and would even more rather that Christmas was never invented?” I asked, turning in my seat to address my mother.

“You know perfectly well why we’re doing this, Ms. Chloe Boston,” my mother replied. I always knew that I was in trouble when she used my full name. “We’re Albert’s family and this is what family does when one of its members is in trouble.”

“And what trouble is Uncle Albert in exactly? He seems perfectly happy working and keeping the holiday in his own way.”

“But he doesn’t keep the holiday, that’s the point. So, we’re showing up on his doorstep for Christmas to save his immortal soul before it’s too late. You should view it as your good deed for the season. Don’t you

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