12/23/2016 0 Comments 7 Must-Read Holiday Blogs #7When invited to contribute to the 7 Blogs series, I considered memories, humorous anecdotes, and any number of other ideas. What came to me instead was a passage from the novel I’m currently writing. As Christmas Eve is nearly upon us, it seems especially apropos. I hope it touches you. "He reached down to the bottom of the bed and felt around in the darkness until he encountered the filled stocking he knew his father had left there. Then he reached over to his brother's side of the bed and located his stocking, reassuring himself that one was no bigger than the other. He knew what was in there. The sole bulged with the inevitable apple and orange. In the heel he could make out the unmistakable shape of a pink sugar mouse, that little jaw breaker which only seemed to appear in the shops at this time of year. There would be a handkerchief, or something equally useless, then something that felt like a pencil case, or perhaps one of the packets of Edinburgh rock his mother had brought with her on her last trip home from the hospital. At the top of the stocking would be the usual chocolate hollow Santa Claus. Individually there wasn't a lot there on which to base the special magic of Christmas Eve… Bestselling Author Bob Atkinson writes time-travel/alternate reality novels set in the magical Scottish Highlands he calls home. His first two books, The Last Sunset and its sequel Red Sky in the Morning, predict a very different America, had the Scots beaten off the English in a great deciding battle. Contact Bob: Goodreads Website This concludes the 7 Must-Read Holiday Blogs tour. We hope you have enjoyed our stories, personal memories, deep concerns, and general musings. All of our books may be found on Amazon or wherever fine books are sold. Thanks you for travelling this journey with us. We wish you a Merry Christmas or Happy Holiday! If you missed any blogs or would like to start from the beginning, please click the button below.
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