Peg Herring's Blog - Posts Tagged "plot-twist"
Christmas=Cruel to be Kind
December is a month of lies and deceit. Here are some personal experiences to prove my point.
*My mother once wrapped a .22 rifle in a guitar box so my brother would think he was getting a guitar for Christmas.
*My daughter confessed to me as an adult that by twelve she was an expert at finding the presents I'd wrapped and hidden, opening them to see what she was getting, and returning them to their hiding place, carefully rewrapped.
*My husband, abetted by my father, let my son spend most of Christmas day thinking he'd seen all his presents, saving the snowmobile for when we got to Gram and Grandpa's house for Christmas dinner.
*My mother's annual lie was that Christmas was going to be "smaller this year." (We never fell for that one; my mother loved Christmas and could not keep herself from buying just one more little gift...for everyone.)
Watching Facebook posts and talking with friends, I sense joy and satisfaction already in the gift-buying public. Yes, Christmas is very commercialized. No, we don't need all that stuff. Really, it should be about family and friends getting together.
But isn't it fun when someone you love is completely surprised and thrilled by all the plotting you did to keep that gift a mystery?
By the way, if it's a mystery reader you're buying for, A Lethal Time and Place is on Kindle Countdown this week (Dec. 3-10), starting at 99 cents.
*My mother once wrapped a .22 rifle in a guitar box so my brother would think he was getting a guitar for Christmas.
*My daughter confessed to me as an adult that by twelve she was an expert at finding the presents I'd wrapped and hidden, opening them to see what she was getting, and returning them to their hiding place, carefully rewrapped.
*My husband, abetted by my father, let my son spend most of Christmas day thinking he'd seen all his presents, saving the snowmobile for when we got to Gram and Grandpa's house for Christmas dinner.
*My mother's annual lie was that Christmas was going to be "smaller this year." (We never fell for that one; my mother loved Christmas and could not keep herself from buying just one more little gift...for everyone.)
Watching Facebook posts and talking with friends, I sense joy and satisfaction already in the gift-buying public. Yes, Christmas is very commercialized. No, we don't need all that stuff. Really, it should be about family and friends getting together.
But isn't it fun when someone you love is completely surprised and thrilled by all the plotting you did to keep that gift a mystery?
By the way, if it's a mystery reader you're buying for, A Lethal Time and Place is on Kindle Countdown this week (Dec. 3-10), starting at 99 cents.
