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The Gift: A Short Story Kindle Edition
"The Gift" is a story to warm your heart at the holiday season, or any day of the year. It comes from the author who won the Page Edwards Short Story Award for "Maybe Someday," one of the stories in her collection THE WISDOM OF AGES, which is also available here on Amazon.
REVIEWS FOR THE WISDOM OF AGES
"These three gems will make you think about time and how you use it. Maryann Miller has a rare gift for taking the pulse of ordinary lives and spinning that into extraordinary tales." -- Craig Lancaster, author of 600 Hours of Edward and The Summer Son
"Miller shares her skills as a writer and her humanity in this inspiring glimpse into the realities of aging and the heartbreak of letting go." Paula Stallings Yost Editor/Author, What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest
"Sometimes the best stories come at the end of our lives, and so do the strongest lessons. Read Maryann Miller's poignant vignettes about aging and let them tug at your heart-strings. They capture the very essence of our tender humanity." ~ Dani Greer, author, editor and Special Projects Coordinator for Little Pickle Press,
- Reading age8 - 18 years
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 29, 2015
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Product details
- ASIN : B018RJHPGW
- Publisher : MCM Enterprises (November 29, 2015)
- Publication date : November 29, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 321 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 10 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,113,149 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #10,898 in Holiday Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #19,431 in Holiday Fiction (Books)
- #43,305 in Single Authors Short Stories
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About the author
Maryann Miller, an award-winning author, has been in love with story-telling since she was a child and used to scare her sister with stories of the monsters in the cellar. Those tales were never written down. They were always whispered in the dark, and when Maryann started writing stories, they were different types entirely.
As a young child, she didn't consider that she would grow up to be a writer. She fancied herself quite the singer and thought she would someday sing in front of crowds of thousands. Alas, that proved to be more dream than reality.
At another point in her childhood, she dreamed of being an actress, but it took many years before she was brave enough to give it a try. For fifteen years she was the Theatre Directer at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts where she directed shows for some time before getting brave enough to step on stage. It appears she was more suited to acting than singing, and she has since starred in several productions at various community theatres in East Texas.
A diverse writer of columns, feature stores, short fiction, novels, screenplays and stage plays, Maryann has won numerous awards including being a semi-finalist at the Sundance Institute for her screenplay, A Question Of Honor. She has also received the Page Edwards Short Story Award and the 2015 Best Mystery award for Doubletake.
Miller lives in a small town in NE Texas with one dog, and four cats. The cats rule! She has been writing all her life and plans to die at her computer.
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Stacey had been putting up Christmas decorations and asked her husband to go shopping with her. Ralph simply replied, "What for?"
Trying to help Ralph come out of a depression, she wasn't having too much success...
Many people do not understand that a depressed person cannot just snap out of it. Stacey realized that she needed to step in since her husband wouldn't seek help... You may think that the picture of the cute puppy was the answer, but you'll be wrong.
What really happens is a tiny little miracle that could not have been anticipated... That makes this story all the more heartwarming. Read it and give it to a friend...
GABixlerReviews
The main character, Stacey's generosity reflects the true Christmas spirit. Her generosity presents a unique way to not only help a stranger, but also her own husband, through a difficult time.
Though most of the story flowed fairly well, the ending was very abrupt. The resolution was concluded in one small paragraph at the end, and there were several questions left unanswered. With the ending, it didn’t really make sense with the storyline to have several days of the same routine, but then the next day everything changed. It would have been nice to see what was it that made the change occur.
Overall, this was a sweet story, but needed more depth and a more thorough ending. I would recommend this to those who like short, sweet Christmas stories.
Although a short story, I hungered for more!