The Last Noel
“Skyler O’Boyle took a moment to listen to a woman with a high, clear voice who was singing, “Sleigh bells ring, are you lis’nin’…”Then, even over the music and from her place in the kitchen, she heard the yelling.“I said hold it. Hold the tree!”Skyler winced.Christmas. Home for the holidays, merry, merry, ho, ho, ho, family love, world peace.In her family? Yeah, right.The expected answer came, and the voice was just as loud. “I am holding it,” her eldest son insisted.“Straight, dammit, Frazier.... Hold it straight,” her husband, David, snapped irritably.In her mind’s eye, Skyler could see them, David on the floor, trying to wedge the tree into the stand, and Frazier, standing, trying to hold the tree straight. That was what happened when you decided “home for the holidays” meant everyone gathering in the old family house out in the country. It meant throwing everything together at the last possible moment, because everyone had to juggle their school and work schedules with their holiday vacation.“The frigging needles are poking my eyes.MoreLess
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