Writing Challenge
Granny’s Christmas Angel
A Shiny Star Won’t Do
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4 min readDec 19, 2023
In a back street in Chicago,
in a black community
there sits a little Christmas shop.
Lights flicker on the tree.
Everything is found there
that can make a Christmas great,
like gifts, books, and decorations,
and it’s open until late.
One day a girl named Sally,
who was barely eight years old,
passed by this little Christmas store,
and this story now unfolds.
Sally stopped outside the window,
to admire the bright display,
when an angel on the Christmas tree
caught the young girl’s gaze.
The angel was identical
to another she recalled,
upon her grandma’s Christmas tree,
when she was very small.
Sally didn’t have much money,
but she went into the store,
to admire the many festive things
she’d never seen before.
