The Great Christmas Eve Bakery Heist

The Great Christmas Eve Bakery Heist

written by: G. Lynn Brown

“Merry Christmas!” Clive hollered from the back in response to the clanging jingle bells on the front door.

He walked from the kitchen, a tray of freshly made figgy pudding in his hand. “How can I help–” The rest of his sentence stuck in his throat, and he nearly dropped the tray when a portly man wearing a black knit hat, a black leather jacket, and a scar from his mouth to his ear pointed a gun to his face.

“Please, don’t hurt me,” Clive pleaded and slowly set the tray on the counter, then threw up his arms in surrender. “T-t-take whatever you want.” He pressed no sale on the cash register. “Th-there! It’s all yours, just please don’t hurt me.”

“What’s taking so long?” A fat face with a newsboy cap pulled low over its brow, and a cigarette dangling off its bottom lip poked in through the door. “C’mon, there’s a flatfoot headed this way.”

“It’s okay, I got dis, Boss.” Scarface pulled a red velour Santa sack from the inside pocket of his jacket and pointed the gun at the tray on the counter. “I wish you a merry Christmas,” he sang like a canary. “Now give us the figgy pudding!”

The jingle bells jangled, and Clive stared at the empty tray.

The infamous Bahumbug Boys struck again.

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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.

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