Sunday Six: Phineas's Christmas Carol
Dec. 9th, 2013 02:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Each Sunday, post six sentences from a writing project — published, submitted, in progress, for your cat — whatever.
It’s still Sunday in Hawaii. Even though I’m not there.
This week’s Sunday Six is from a Christmas story I wrote in September, which will start going out on Tuesday. It’s A Christmas Carol, starring Phineas as Scrooge.
Yes, I know, it’s a stretch. Run with it.
"Hi, Phineas," Candace said, juggling packages. "Merry Christmas."
"Merry Christmas, Candace," he said grumpily.
"I know you don’t want to come to Mom and Dad’s tomorrow," she said hopefully, "but if you’d like a smaller family Christmas, you’re welcome to come visit us tomorrow morning. Amanda’s visiting with her new husband, and the boys are back from college. We’d all love to see you."
"I’ll think about it," he said hesitantly.
She frowned. “That means no, doesn’t it? We miss you. You’re turning into Scrooge on us.”
"It means I’ll think about it, Candace."
"I suppose that’s the best I could hope for," she said with a sigh. "Hope to see you tomorrow, then," she said, and headed on her way.
Scrooge, eh? Bah, humbug.