A Christmas Friend

By William Turner

The book features two little girls, a dog, and a donkey, plus Santa Claus and his "talking reindeer." Mikea lived in the desolate North Land. She had no friends, so she wrote a letter to Santa Claus, asking Santa, instead of toys, to bring her a little girl to play with for one evening. Sydney Hayes had befriended Santa the previous year when he fell off the Hayess roof. Mrs. Claus thought that Sydney would be the perfect friend for Mikea. Santa and the reindeer decided to bring Sydney to meet Mikea. Santa picked Sydney up, and they started for the North Land. Sitting beside Santa in his sleigh while they drifted through the starlit sky was a "magical journey," and a visit by the Christmas Angel added to Sydney's excitement. Although Mikea's parents were in a state of shock upon seeing Santa and the reindeer, the two girls bonded immediately, and they spent the evening visiting like they had known each other forever. Out in the barnyard, Mikea's dog and donkey visited with the reindeer. When Santa announced that it was time to return Sydney to her house, the girls hugged and vowed to be "friends for life."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Nov 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499073270

William Turner

William B. Turner holds a Ph.D. in U.S. history and a J.D. He has published his dissertation as a monograph and a second, edited collection for which he had two co-editors. He wrote the first chapter. He has a total of eight law review articles in print. After living in five other states, he now lives in his hometown, Oklahoma City.

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Copyright © 2014 by William Turner. 670201

ISBN:

Softcover 978-1-4990-7318-8

EBook 978-1-4990-7327-0

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 02/25/2015

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Contents

Dedication

Preface

1997

The Night Santa Fell-off The Roof

1998

Chapter 1

Mikea’s Letter to Santa Claus

Chapter 2

The North Pole

Chapter 3

Journey to the Hayes House

Chapter 4

The Hayes House

Chapter 5

The Trip To The North Land

Chapter 6

Mikea’s Wish Comes True

Chapter 7

Sydney Returns Home

Dedication

This book is dedicated to its hero, Sydney Hayes. When I wrote the story, Sydney was living in Dumfries Virginia with her parents and her sister, Jazzmine.

Sydney’s mother, Selina, was an Australian foreign exchange student in Independence, Missouri. Our family was Selina’s host family while she completed her senior year at William Chrisman High School. Selina, her husband, and four children are now members of our extended family. I am proud to be called grandpa by Sydney and her siblings. Sydney is a junior at Howard University.

Preface

In 1997, I wrote a poem for Sydney’s third Christmas. The next year I followed it with a Christmas story. Since the story refers to events described in the poem, I included it in this book.

I wrote the story to read to Sydney on her fourth Christmas. Other than Sydney, I never intended it to be read by others. When I passed my eighty-third birthday, I decided to submit it for publication—thinking that others might enjoy reading my story. On November 5, 2013, Xlibris published that version of A Christmas Friend.

In this revised edition, I have improved the format to make the story easier for young people to read.

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1997

The Night Santa Fell Off the Roof

Santa and his reindeer were moving fast

Delivering gifts–Christmas was here at last

The sleigh was flying through the night

To place gifts under trees, shining so bright

Santa was busy, going from house to house