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    You'll Be Home For Christmas: The Committed Series, #2
    You'll Be Home For Christmas: The Committed Series, #2
    You'll Be Home For Christmas: The Committed Series, #2
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    You'll Be Home For Christmas: The Committed Series, #2

    By Michael W Griffith

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    Sometimes life conspires to keep us from the ones we love. While always painful, it can hurt more at Christmas than any other time of the year. Having recently lost his parents, Peter Taylor is especially grateful he’ll be able to spend one final Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in his childhood home, and then Christmas Day with his girlfriend Christine. When everything goes wrong, he still tries to find a way to make this Christmas his best ever.


    You’ll Be Home For Christmas picks up where the novel Committed left off and suggests that those we love never truly leave us. It considers the difference between what we might wish for and what matters most and shows that true love can overcome almost anything. 

    Please note that this is a short story of just over 10,000 words.​

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael W Griffith
    Release dateDec 14, 2015
    ISBN9781519938473
    You'll Be Home For Christmas: The Committed Series, #2

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      You'll Be Home For Christmas - Michael W Griffith

      You'll Be Home For Christmas

      You'll Be Home For Christmas

      A Short Story

      Michael W. Griffith

      For anyone who feels lonely or can’t be with the ones they love on Christmas.

      Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.

      Douglas Coupland

      Description from the Back Cover

      Sometimes life conspires to keep us from the ones we love. While always painful, it can hurt more at Christmas than any other time of the year. Having recently lost his parents, Peter Taylor is especially grateful he’ll be able to spend one final Christmas Eve and Christmas morning in his childhood home, and then Christmas Day with his girlfriend Christine. When everything goes wrong, he still tries to find a way to make this Christmas his best ever.

      You’ll Be Home For Christmas picks up where the novel Committed left off and suggests that those we love never truly leave us. It considers the difference between what we might wish for and what matters most and shows that true love can overcome almost anything.

      Please note that this is a short story of just over 10,000 words.

      You’ll Be Home For Christmas

      Peter stood in front of the television in the family room, cellphone to his ear, waiting for the weatherman to explain how much snow would fall. All week they’d been calling for heavy snow starting late Christmas Eve and continuing into the day on Christmas. Models over the last twenty-four hours suggested the heaviest bands of snow would shift south and St. Louis would get a dusting to maybe an inch or two at the most.

      Peter talked into his cellphone. See? It’s going to miss us. Again.

      Christine said, And you’re counting on the weatherman to be right?

      Peter exhaled but said nothing.

      If it snows, you’re not going anywhere in that sports car. Just drive here to my mom’s house tonight. You can stay in the third bedroom and it won’t matter if it snows or not.

      She was right. The snow hadn’t even started falling yet. He could pack a few things, drive on dry pavement, and be with Christine in less than forty-five minutes. It was the safe thing to do. Why take the risk?

      He wasn’t looking forward to meeting her mother for the first time, or the awkwardness that went with it. Or the assorted friends and family that would visit on Christmas Day. If there was a Hell for introverted writer-types, it would be a crowded room full of strangers on Christmas and being forced to learn and remember everyone’s name and life story one-by-one. And they would want to know about him. So, what do you do for a living, Peter? A writer? What have you published? Nothing? Oh. Do you think the baseball team should trade for a new pitcher next year?

      I guess I need to be here one last time.

      Memories from his childhood flashed through his mind. Christmas cookies and egg nog left on the coffee table for Santa. Holding his mother’s hand in the hallway while waiting for his father to walk ahead so he could get video of his expression when Peter and his mother turned the corner and saw what was under the tree. His father lifting him to hang Christmas ornaments high on the tree.

      Now, because of a car accident his parents were gone forever. Because of the deal he made with the bank to surrender the home at the end of March, this would be the last Christmas he’d ever have in his childhood home. Next Christmas, he’d be somewhere else. Some new family would celebrate their first Christmas here.

      I feel like I have to.

      Without hesitation, Christine said, Do you want me to come there?

      Still recovering from his parents’ funerals just a few weeks earlier he hadn’t been able to muster the desire to decorate or even put up a

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