Crackling crackers! It is time for Susanna Hill’s 8th Annual Holiday Contest…
The contest: Write a children’s holiday story (children here defined as age 12 and under) about A Holiday Hero! You’re hero’s act of heroism can be on a grand scale or a small one – from saving Christmas to leaving a fresh-baked load of Challah bread for a homeless person to something like Gift of the Magi where two people give up the most important to them to be sure someone they love has a good holiday. Your hero can be obvious or unlikely. Your story may be poetry or prose, silly or serious or sweet, religious or not, based on Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or whatever you celebrate, but it is not to exceed 250 words. Your entry can be posted on your own blog or over on Susanna’s between this very second and Saturday December 8 at 11.59 PM EST. https://susannahill.com/2018/12/06/ho-ho-ho-the-eighth-annual-holiday-contest-is-here/#comments
So without further ado, here is my entry…
The Holiday Show
The children were ready, the show was tonight.
The curtains went up to great gasps of delight.
The bobble-hat reindeers pranced up and down,
when on danced the fairies in tutus and gowns.
The littlest fairy with bells on her wings,
wiggled and jiggled like she was on springs.
A curly-shoed elf with a big voice decreed
“The littlest fairy is busting to wee!”
A teacher rushed over and led her stage right.
Her mum, in first row, hoped that she’d be alright.
The flutter of fairies all froze in a ring…
The littlest fairy was up next to sing!
Crackling crackers!
What are we to do?
The littlest fairy has
gone to the loo!
The fluttering fairies bumped into each other.
An ice-skating polar bear fell on his brother!
Crackling crackers!
Can this get much worse?
The polar bear’s being
propped up by the nurse!
The fairies stopped dancing! The reindeer quit prancing!
The polar bears stared, and the teachers did too,
Then up popped the elf in his curly-toed shoes.
He marched to the flutter of fairies and said
“I know the words, so can I sing instead?”
The music began and Elf’s singing was bright.
The littlest fairy ran on from stage right.
The audience cheered at their Christmas duet,
Tonight, was an evening they’d never forget!
Crackling crackers!
Well, what do you know?
The curly-shoed elf
saved our Holiday show.
Thanks for popping by, and don’t forget to hop over to Susanna’s to read all the other wonderful entries.
Happy Holidays!!
Little Red Story Shed 