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Weekly Contest #283
SANTA CLAUS CAME TO TOWNAl Griffin It was Christmas Day, and Tom had been sitting in the hard, folding chair for hours. At his age, the chair became both blessing and curse. Tom had volunteered at this Christmas event every year since Mildred passed in the spring of ‘09. Before that year, before that stage in her disease, they had attended this gala without fail for the last 18 of their 64 years together. Mildred remained strong until the end. For that he was grateful. He couldn’t stand the idea of watching her suffer endlessly.That first y...
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