Fantastical Christmas Volume 1: 5 Holiday Fantasy Short Stories: Holiday Extravaganza Collections, #4

By Connor Whiteley

Venture forth into the delightful adventures of wizards, witches and magic and more found in the magical worlds of Fantastic Christmas.

Enjoy fantasy adventures, dragons and more creatures to capture the imagination in this first fantasy collection, and stories both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time.

From the Last Dragon Guardian and a dying wizard to a superhero finding an author in trouble, the stories in this volume add a bit of warmth and fantasy to your holiday season.

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Holiday Fantasy Short Stories include:

• Magic That Binds
• One Final Christmas
• Author's Christmas Problems
• Last Winter Dragon Egg
• A Sacrifice For Saturnalia

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• Language: English
• Publisher: CGD Publishing
• Release date: Jul 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798201277536

Connor Whiteley

Hello, I'm Connor Whiteley, I am an 18-year-old who loves to write creatively, and I wrote my Brownsea trilogy when I was 14 years old after I went to Brownsea Island on a scout camp. At the camp, I started to think about how all the broken tiles and pottery got there and somehow a trilogy got created.Moreover, I love writing fantasy and sci-fi novels because you’re only limited by your imagination.In addition, I'm was an Explorer Scout and I love camping, sailing and other outdoor activities as well as cooking.Furthermore, I do quite a bit of charity work as well. For example: in early 2018 I was a part of a youth panel which was involved in creating a report with research to try and get government funding for organised youth groups and through this panel. I was invited to Prince Charles’ 70th birthday party and how some of us got in the royal photograph.Finally, I am going to university and I hope to get my doctorate in clinical psychology in a few years.

Book preview

MAGIC THAT BINDS

It might have started off as a hobby but to Janet making gifts was all part of the holiday season experience. It was amazing, wonderful to make people such wondrous gifts, Janet was known to everyone in Kent, England as the best gift maker because of her ability to infuse even the most hideous objects with her magic and make them stunning.

Janet stood in a smaller isle in a massive craft superstore surrounded by rows upon rows of beads in all their different sizes, textures and colours.

Beads might have been awful, small and annoying to some people, but to Janet they were magical things that were the best material to make gifts from. Their small round size meant it didn’t take much magic to manipulate them into whatever shape she wanted.

And as a part-time teacher at the local sixth form for young magic users, the beads were perfect to allow them to experiment with their magic.

She had stopped using wooden and other large material a long time ago, young inexperienced magic users definitely shouldn’t unleash the magical energy needed to manipulate large pieces of wood until they were ready.

Janet hated to think about all the fires, explosions and other accidents caused by them.

But beads were perfect.

The smell of the little plastic beads wasn’t the best but when mixed together with flowers, natural materials and maybe even a hint of lavender, these beads would smell amazing, and that was what Janet loved about gift making.

The sound of other customers and their children in the other isles reminded Janet of her own love of the different crafts. She loved the bright lively strokes of painting and the wonderful hands-on nature of pottery.

But the containers of bright red, blue and green beads in front of her head were what Janet needed at this point in time. Maybe she could check out the paints and pottery bits later. Perhaps even her husband could buy her a few pieces for Christmas.

Janet placed her hands into the containers of the plastic beads. Their icy coldness felt amazing, their smooth cold texture was a stunning, beautiful contrast to her aged rough hands.

But she needed to find magic sensitive beads.

These types of beads were often made by magic users in the factories and mixed in with the rest of the beads to stop them from being detected (Not everyone was as respectable towards magic users as they should have been), but Janet had detected a strong number of the magical beads in this aisle alone.

That was unusual yet that was the last thing on Janet’s priorities at the moment as her annoying (but wonderfully rich) client had given her an awful deadline to make a gift by the end of the day.

Janet didn’t like to rush gifts. Each one was carefully planned, made and delivered. Each one took at least three days to make so making a wonderful gift in a single day was going to be difficult. Not impossible. Just difficult.

The only solace Janet could take from the impossible request was the amazing contract and payday that came with it. Ten thousand pounds for the gift and the exclusive contract of being the client’s personal gift maker.

Normally that wouldn’t interest Janet, but considering the client was a rich businessman who entertained hundreds of clients every year in London. The pay checks would be like shooting fish in a barrel.

Janet finished searching the containers in front of her head and frowned.