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The Missing Mistletoe
Time travel via Victorian mistletoe.
After her divorce, Anna moves to San Francisco where her sister Emily and her brother-in-law Tom live. Emily, a real estate agent, locates a beautiful Victorian home for Anna. The house’s history dates back to before the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Emily has decorated Anna’s new house with festive decorations she’s purchased and others she found in a box in the attic. The only item she couldn’t find was a mistletoe. When Anna nearly trips on one of the steps to the second floor, she finds a mistletoe hidden in a recess underneath the stair. Hanging it up as her sister holds the ladder, she becomes dizzy and falls. When she awakes, Anna finds herself in 1906 San Francisco the day before the earthquake is scheduled to hit. The occupants of the house cannily resemble her relatives and her ex-husband and his girlfriend. Can she find a way to return to her own time before the earthquake strikes, or should she warn these strangely familiar people of the imminent danger?
After her divorce, Anna moves to San Francisco where her sister Emily and her brother-in-law Tom live. Emily, a real estate agent, locates a beautiful Victorian home for Anna. The house’s history dates back to before the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Emily has decorated Anna’s new house with festive decorations she’s purchased and others she found in a box in the attic. The only item she couldn’t find was a mistletoe. When Anna nearly trips on one of the steps to the second floor, she finds a mistletoe hidden in a recess underneath the stair. Hanging it up as her sister holds the ladder, she becomes dizzy and falls. When she awakes, Anna finds herself in 1906 San Francisco the day before the earthquake is scheduled to hit. The occupants of the house cannily resemble her relatives and her ex-husband and his girlfriend. Can she find a way to return to her own time before the earthquake strikes, or should she warn these strangely familiar people of the imminent danger?
41 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 7, 2018
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Debbie De Louise
88 books597 followersDebbie De Louise is an award-winning author and a reference librarian at a public library on Long Island. She is a member of International Thriller Writers, Sisters-in-Crime, and the Cat Writer’s Association. She has a BA in English and an MLS in Library Science from Long Island University. Her published novels include the 6 books of her Cobble Cove cozy mystery series: A Stone's Throw, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Written in Stone, Love on the Rocks, No Gravestone Unturned, and Sneaky's Supernatural Mystery and Other Cobble Cove Stories, her paranormal romance, Cloudy Rainbow, her mystery thriller Reason to Die, her psychological mystery, Sea Scope, and her time-travel novel, Time's Relative. She also published a romantic comedy novella featuring a jewel heist caper, When Jack Trumps Ace and a cat poetry book, Meows and Purrs. Debbie also has a new series, the Buttercup Bend Mysteries, the first one of which is The Case of the Cat Crazy Lady. Debbie has also written articles and short stories for several anthologies of various genres. She lives on Long Island with her husband, daughter, and two cats.
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January 11, 2018
This was a very sweet short Christmas story that involves time travel, maybe parallel time, or possibly just a dream...I think the author lets us use our imaginations on this. Anna is a writer whose recent breakup with her boyfriend finds her in San Francisco where her realtor sister Emily has found her the perfect old Victorian to live in.
While she's there taking a tour, she thinks she sees a nursery. Then she finds a piece of old mistletoe. Deciding to put up the mistletoe and falling seems to have moved Anna into another time, a crucial time for the history of this old house. Everyone is someone she knows but of course they don't know her. Can she get out of this strange time warp? Or does she even want to after meeting a special someone?
I really loved this short story the first time I read it in an anthology so when it became available by itself, I was happy to get it because I really wanted to just review it by itself. Some of the anthology itself was good (like this story and another) and some was just, meh. I could read this story over and over and probably never get tired of it!
While she's there taking a tour, she thinks she sees a nursery. Then she finds a piece of old mistletoe. Deciding to put up the mistletoe and falling seems to have moved Anna into another time, a crucial time for the history of this old house. Everyone is someone she knows but of course they don't know her. Can she get out of this strange time warp? Or does she even want to after meeting a special someone?
I really loved this short story the first time I read it in an anthology so when it became available by itself, I was happy to get it because I really wanted to just review it by itself. Some of the anthology itself was good (like this story and another) and some was just, meh. I could read this story over and over and probably never get tired of it!
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