With the
taste of Saint Patrick’s Day dinner fresh in mind and the beginning of plans
for Easter just starting to intrude into my thoughts, it seemed only right that
I took another look at . . . the Holiday Mixer. This prompt has the writer take
two holidays and mix them together to come up with an unusual setting and an
unusual story.
And since
we are smack in the middle of the aforementioned holidays I will work with them
in creating this week’s sample story.
The Egg
Thief
Life is good
in the little farming community of Dun Ibhir Dell; the weather is cool, the
potato harvest is the best in years, and the chickens are laying eggs in record
numbers. And yet, Darby has gathered the fewest eggs of any year he can
remember.
Things
change when he sets a trap and captures a Puka who has been stealing the eggs
as part of a tribute that is paid to giants in a far away land. As any
self-respecting Leprechaun would, Darby decides to see this land of miracles
for himself and maybe even steal a pot of gold that legends say the giants
jealously guard.
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