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Of Love and A Christmas Tree

G. Lynn Brown·December 23, 2023

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Of Love and A Christmas Tree

written by: G. Lynn Brown

@GLBrown_Writer

It was just an artificial tree. Four feet of grayish-green plastic needles meant to replicate a Balsam Pine, dotted with bright red holly berries placed just so around perfectly shaped pinecones, and flocked with faux snow. But not too much flocking that it looked spray painted on, and not so little that it appeared unfinished, but just enough, done well enough, to bring him to mind.

She shook her head and laughed.

Bring him to mind?

Why would this particular tree, amid the other fifteen on store display, bring him to mind? Why would any Christmas tree remind her of him?

They never shared a Christmas together. She didn’t even know his favorite holiday song or which version of “A Christmas Carol” he preferred. She didn’t know much about him at all, except she wanted to know him better.

She stood in front of the faux pine and touched it’s needles, felt the texture of its glittery flocking. Still, there was something about it she found so sweet, so charming and, despite being covered in snow, so warm. The longer she looked at it, the more it felt like home.

She admired it a few moments longer, hoping to realize what it was about it that reminded her of him, but, try as she might, she just couldn’t make the connection. All she knew was that she simply fell in love with it at first sight.

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G. Lynn Brown

G. Lynn Brown, originally from New Jersey, now living in Tennessee, is a published writer and poet, whose work can be found in various literary journals, including Fictionette (where her short story, "The Reason Caramels Make Me Cry," won the Star Prize Entry Award, April '23), Monday Microfiction Magazine, Paragraph Planet, Rejection-Letters and others. Her story, "Passing the Torch," made the Australian Writers Centre Furious Fiction Contest longlist (June '23), and in November 2024, she will have her microfiction, "Submerged," published in Vine Leaves Press's "50 Give or Take Anthology." She is a contributing author at Friday Flash Fiction, where her 100-word tale, "Her Best Bud," was recently chosen Editor's Choice. G. Lynn has a passion for creativity that has bubbled within her since childhood and, in adulthood, her writing is more than a hobby, but serves as a form of therapy, allowing her to escape the stresses of day-to-day life. She appreciates all those who read her stories and poems, and hopes they enjoy reading them as much as she does writing them.

Lou Storey

A textbook example of nominative determinism, Lou Storey has always been a storyteller, a fact well illustrated in his art and in his writing. His careers have reflected that as well, first as a creator of idea-based exhibitions for museums, and later as a psychotherapist employing narrative therapies. His art and his writing share qualities of rich texture and detail, examining our capacity to be absurd while allowing a measure of forgiveness for our foibles. Storey and his husband Steve retired in 2021 and moved from New Jersey to Savannah Georgia. “We love everything about Savannah, it is like a city that looks like a park and thinks it’s a small town. Best of all, we can grow bananas in the backyard!”

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Creepy cackles from tall, looming trees
startle their jumpy heartbeats as they walk.
Shadows discreetly follow the echoes
while they timidly proceed down the block.

Young voices repeat with conviction,
“It’s just a night for entertainment.”
There’s no need for goosebumps and fear
as their eyes focus on the cracked pavement.

Undeniably sensing they’re not alone,
many follow in their hesitant footsteps,
eager to reach doors and push doorbells
but afraid of frightening special effects....

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