The Christmas Burn-Up
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Suddenly single at Christmas? Not so bad. Charlotte could eat all the mince pies she liked without worrying that they'd go straight to her hips, since she never intended to get naked with anyone again. Ever. No sharing the remote control. No need to change out of her pyjamas for three days. No sodding Turkey to cook. It would be as if Dan had never existed. Just one problem.
How to forget him, move on and embrace the single Christmas when your house is still full of his stuff?
Answer: The Christmas Burn-Up.
The Christmas Burn-Up is a fun short story I wrote for Naughty Or Nice? - an anthology of Christmas stories, published by HarperImpulse with the theme Christmas by the fire.
The full anthology of fifteen stories is available to download free here http://smarturl.it/naughtynice
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