“Best gift I never got.”
Written By:
Tony Bender | ×
The trio boarded at Atlantic Avenue. Nick. Twitch. Morph.
“Trouble,” the businessman thought, quickly shifting his gaze back to his newspaper so as not to provoke them. Twitch stared anyway.
“Gangbangers,” the young mother internalized, her hand instinctively clutching Doris’ left hand. In her daughter’s right palm, a small gift.
“Jewelry,” Morph thought. “Earrings. Or a ring,” and judging from the elegant gold wrapping, more than costume jewelry.
Yes. Earrings. For Grandma.
Then Twitch spied the old woman. Frida’s chunky legs were crossed beneath the seat, just one handle of a cloth shopping bag in her hand, so it was splayed open, everything inside visible. She snored softly, then snorted. Twitch snickered.
Bah, humbug! Nobody wanted COVID for Christmas
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Bye, humbug. We’re determined to find the holiday spirit during a COVID Christmas. | Commentary
Orlando Sentinel 12/23/2020 Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel
I’ve always loved Christmastime.
And one of the things I used to most enjoy before COVID came along and put all our favorite holiday traditions through a nutcracker was staging surprises; running from my office to the store on my lunch break, buying a bunch of presents and then trying to sneak all of them into the house.
Unfortunately, those days are long gone.
For starters, I don’t even have a bloody office anymore. Every outing starts and ends at home, where every member of my family is located … every … single … minute … of the day.