Story Links: Noel & All I Want For Christmas

Hello! Quick schedule update. I forgot that I have the high school drama tonight (several of my students are involved and I’m excited to see them perform!) so I’m doing Flash Fiction tomorrow night.  BUT I was going to launch a holiday thing tomorrow so I’m just switching. 

Happy Holidays from Crimson Glass! Over the last 22 years I’ve written countless stories set in and around the holidays, but there are some that I wrote specifically for the holiday or added an epilogue/sequel after first publication. Each Sunday (Saturday this week!) I’ll post 1-2 stories, closing out the new year. I’m not planning any new additions this year, but then I also didn’t plan to write an entire Mad World novella last year, lol.

Week 1: Noel & All I Want For Christmas

Noel was a challenge response I wrote TWENTY years ago. What if Jason, who had lost his memory, was visited by the three ghosts from A Christmas Carol? It was only my second story back after a year’s hiatus, and it was a lot of fun. I’d write it differently now, of course, but it’s fun to revisit.  One of my favorite things about archiving nearly every single story I’ve written for 22 years is seeing my journey as a writer. I’ve learned so much over the last twenty years.

All I Want For Christmas was written my first year back to writing. As the OG fans might know, I wrote in bursts from 2002-04, Late 2005-08, and then disappeared between 2009-2013. I didn’t really watch GH much at this point. I’d gone back to college and was just so incredibly busy and GH was just so terrible at this point that it seemed pointless. I returned to the show in 2012, and writing in 2014.

I relaunched Crimson Glass in January 2014, wrote a few new pieces (Shadows & A Few Words Too Many) and finished the year with this alternate universe Christmas story. Hard to believe I’ve been writing consistently again for 11 years! And it’s great to see how far I’ve come in that second decade of writing. This story was also the first time I did a holiday epilogue — there’s a second epilogue added a year later.  I think if I wrote this today, it’d be longer for sure, but I still love it.

Happy Holidays from me to all of you, and I can’t wait to see where this holiday season takes us! See you tomorrow for Flash Fiction and this week for more Chain Reaction!

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