As noted above, I sometimes write in school. Not only do I put pen to paper in English class and occasionally History, but a few weeks ago I was able to craft a tale in my Art class. Mr. H was trying to get the class to spend more time on our weekly journal entries (sketch books) so he came up with the idea of us writing a one page story one week and drawing an illistration of the said story the next week.
My story wound up being three pages, but what can ya do? When I start, I can't stop.
Important: This did not happen. This is fiction. I wrote this for a school assignment.
So, here it is: Christmas Get-Ups starring Stasia Porter, M.R. Sellars , Kristin Madden and Dorothy Morrison :
It was nearly a year ago when my tale took place. There was snow on the ground, CHristmas music playing, and a line of people, nearly two blocks long, waiting for their chance to meet Santa Clause.
I was not in that line. Instead, me, Dorothy and Kristin were back stage with the "Santa" who was, in fact, our friend; a paranormal thriller fiction writer, Murv Sellars. Picture him; a man with dimples when he overly smiled and long black hair... which he had pulled back into a bun, in order to fit the wig, so he could play the part of the white bearded Christmas character.
He'd adorned in a red jumper, coat and hat and the three of us girls were laughing joyfully at him. It wasn't that he didn't look like a convincing Santa Clause, it was just... he's Murv. He writes fiction novels about crazy killers for a living.
But, Murv has a big heart. He is a very kind man and that is why he'd agreed to do this gig.... well that and some prodding from Dorothy and his wife EK.
That's right folks, you heard right. Murv is in this situation because of me. I needed a Santa and he seemed perfect for the part. *grin* after all, I'd always wanted to meet M.R. Sellars and this seemed like the perfect opportunity.
When Murv went out to the kids, Dorothy, Kristin and I watched from the doorway. That's when I noticed an evil grin playing across Kristin's face. She then turned to Dorothy and I, and told us her master plan. Naturally, Dorothy and I were all for it.
Murv was reading to the kids in the large library. Beside his throne type chair was a sleigh that he was using to store his books. What made Kristin's idea perfect was that he wasn't sitting by the sleigh. Everyone knows that when M.R. is talking he can't sit still. He has to walk around, pace, and make all kinds of gestures.
Our plan is simple: steal the sleigh.
That way, when Murv got through the first book and went to grab the next one, he'd be forced to make up a story on the fly. Lots of laughs are always produced when Murv makes up stories on the fly... let us all remember the shoe box spell from his famous "Legend of the Bobblehead Lady" adventure.
But, our plan turned sour when we pulled the sleigh into the back room. We then noticed that books weren't the only things being stored in the sleigh. Not only did we have the souces of entertainment, but we also had the kids' gifts!!!!!
Starting to sweat, we had no idea what to do. Going back to the doorway, we saw that we couldn't pull the sleigh back. We'd be caught by not only Murv and the kids, but the photographers... lots of photographers...
We could never let our evil plan be unmasked like that.
So... we went back into the dressing room and there I found Kristin starting at a chair full of material with another evil grin dancing across her face.
We did the only thing we could do. We dressed ourselves up as Santa's Elves and presented the sleigh full of presents in style *grin*
The End
I hope you enjoyed that. Please visit Murv's, Dorothy's and Kristin's sites. They are awesome people with great stories to tell!
Until next time,
Stasia Porter
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