The Characters In My Anti-Hallmark Holiday Movie

Janie Emaus
Slackjaw
Published in
3 min readDec 23, 2019

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1. An overachieving architect who arrives in her small hometown to acquire her high school sweetheart’s mom and pop antique store. She realizes her ex-boyfriend is still a jerk, proceeds with the deal and uses her huge commission to spend Christmas in the Bahamas.

2. A heroine who can climb a ladder and not lose her balance. A handsome stranger walks into her quirky bookstore asking for a rare book by her favorite author and she climbs down unassisted. They have a normal transaction and never speak to each other again.

3. A café owner who does not believe in the magic of pumpkin spice. She is banned from the Christmas Eve Cookie Crawl.

4. A woman who can’t find the special angel ornament given to her by her late father. She spends the next ten years in therapy.

5. A vegan candy store owner who experiments with her product. She chokes on a clump of frosted kale.

6. A craft store employee who does not Christmas decorate every square inch of her apartment. She loses her cherished position as the light switch flipper at the Christmas Eve tree lighting ceremony.

7. A woman who recovers from her amnesia without falling in love with the understanding doctor taking care of her. She remembers she’s in a twelve-step program and heads for the…

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