Category: THE ADVENT STORIES
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Advent Stories #5 Happiness
Happiness. This is as simple as she can put it. Happiness in its truest form. It shouldn’t feel this real or this beautiful but it does. In two days it does, and it might be a new feeling, but she believes this will last a life time, each feeling better than the last. This happiness…
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Advent Stories #4- Mom Is Going To Kill Her!
‘Mom is going to kill her!’ ‘I cannot get through to her.’ ‘Mom is going to kill her!’ Sloane has her two sisters on the phone, you know the ones who did not elope with some stranger. Those ones, some would call them the good ones, the well behaved ones. Even she, much trouble as…
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Advent Stories #3- Boy Meets Girl
Bella curls up in bed, next to her husband, the sun is just rising and she spent the better part of the morning watching it rise before returning to bed. The conversation she didn’t have with her sisters weighed heavily on her mind. She felt like a coward for doing what she did, dropping the…
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Advent Stories #2- The Rhodes Family
Serena, Beatrix, Bella and Sloane, daughters of Briar and Stephen Rhodes, they grew up in The Village, a small commune in the Cotwolds. Serena, the oldest, is a corporate lawyer at an investment bank in Mayfair. Oxford educated, for both her degree and masters, and a PhD from Cambridge, she is the consummate overachiever. She…
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Advent Stories #1- What Bella Did
‘What are we doing for the holidays?’ ‘I don’t know. What do you want to do?’ Sloane looks at her husband as she gets dressed. He is still in bed, no signs of getting out of it. ‘You’re really not going into the office today?’ ‘Nope. You don’t have to go in too, you know.’…