Reflections on the Twelfth Week of Fall - Visions of Sugar Plums

Visions of Sugar Plums is one of my favorite Christmas stories. I’ve reread the novella multiple times and relished the super eccentric characters.

Mary Alice thinks she’s a horse.

Grandma goes to funerals to pick up stud muffins.

Lulu can’t find a parking place at the mall so nudges another vehicle out of its place and pulls in.

Toymaker Sandy Claws rented a building sight unseen. He didn’t realize it was a day care center. Instead of remodeling, he hires short people.

Stephanie, who tracks down bail jumpers for her boss, endures larger than life catastrophes. because there’s only one bathroom for six people, she slips off the roof when attempting to get her sister out of the locked bathroom. Diesel just materializes in Stephanie’s kitchen one morning. Elves rip apart the Christmas tree Stephanie bought. And an aging superhero loses control of his electric charges and torches the tree Stephanie's dad gave her. Of course the car under the tree goes up in flames too..

The humor in the novella is over-the-top, a laugh-out-loud read to savor.

I look forward to the next Christmas reading of Visions of Sugar Plums.