Santa's Shorts

This collection includes three short stories and several poems all about Christmas. Included in this collection is a sonnet, two acrostic poems, one free verse, and one linked haiku poem. The stories are "He Gave Them Christmas" this story takes place during the Great Depression and a boy gives the children he lives with at an orphanage a Christmas they will never forget. "Holly and Ivy" a tale of twin sisters who meet at Thanksgiving and finally spend Christmas together and learning the meaning of family. "Christmas with Gramma" Gina lives with her grandmother who suffers from Alzheimer's. Gramma wants Christmas with the family and Gins is determined to give it to her, even if Gina has to pay her cousins to visit.