Christmas at Fontaine's: A NovelA mysterious presence transforms the lives of a tyrannical chief executive officer, a nice young woman, a Santa Claus with an unsavory past, an earnest young man, and a spaced-out window decorator on Christmas Eve in Fontaine's department store. |
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... shopping bag in each hand . The music of the stores blared at her from all directions , and the crowds of shoppers ... bags dragging . Old newspapers and other trash protruded from the bags- Aggie's treasure , all that she had scoured ...
... shopping bag in each hand . The music of the stores blared at her from all directions , and the crowds of shoppers ... bags dragging . Old newspapers and other trash protruded from the bags- Aggie's treasure , all that she had scoured ...
Page 36
... bags . The Port Authority building was ahead , buses and commuters streaming into it , as into a great mouth in a ... shopping bags , but never fully open- ing . Somebody might steal them . Her eyes closed ; broken images cascaded over ...
... bags . The Port Authority building was ahead , buses and commuters streaming into it , as into a great mouth in a ... shopping bags , but never fully open- ing . Somebody might steal them . Her eyes closed ; broken images cascaded over ...
Page 64
... shopping bags be- tween her knees , and began eating the sandwich . She felt like a pigeon , scrounging all day , but she had no wings and she couldn't levitate . The pigeons fluttered down to the curbstone , and paraded around her ...
... shopping bags be- tween her knees , and began eating the sandwich . She felt like a pigeon , scrounging all day , but she had no wings and she couldn't levitate . The pigeons fluttered down to the curbstone , and paraded around her ...
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Aggie ahead aisle arms asked bags Beck bird bottle cage child Christmas cigar closed continued counter curtain danced dark Department door dreams dropped empty entered eyes face feel feet figure fingers fire Flash flew floor followed Fontaine Fontaine's forward front gazed give glass going Gomez hand hanging he'd head held inside It's kids kind knees leaned lifted light Locke Locke's looked Louis Fontaine moon morning moved Muhlstock never night nodded nose Officer once opened pair playing pointed raised reached reindeer Santa Claus Sardos seemed shadow showed side silver slowly sound stepped stood street suit sure thing thought took trying turned village voice walked wall watched waved wind window Winifred Wolf woman wondered You're