So when mall security-guard Rachel’s work partner decides she’s a Christmas Grump, I wanted to point at everything happening around them in the mall and be all, “Of course she is!”Īs the story progresses, Rachel goes from seeing a kid staring longingly at some LEGO and wondering if he’s going to purloin it to realizing said kid is just staring longingly because times are tough, to deciding to make a difference in a small way to the kid-and then nearly getting the kid in real trouble with his mother for doing so. I say this because having done Christmas retail for a couple of decades, I one-hundred percent side with the characters who work in that environment and are therefore so very done with the holidays. Found in a trio of short stories, Love Beneath the Christmas Tree, “The Christmas Grump” is the first of the three and starts in a place I always love reading during the season: Christmas retail.
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