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    A Very Grinka Christmas (Fractured Fairies, 5)
    A Very Grinka Christmas (Fractured Fairies, 5)
    A Very Grinka Christmas (Fractured Fairies, 5)
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    A Very Grinka Christmas (Fractured Fairies, 5)

    By Alexa Grave

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    A grouchy sea nymph who fancies herself a modern-day Scrooge. Bah humbug.

    Grinka's main goal for Christmas: survive without celebrating a damned thing. Between playing an elf to her mopey human-sized giant friend’s Santa and contending with the fairy siblings’ holiday revelries, she’s got her work cut out for her.

    When uninvited guests appear on her doorstep, she’s forced to face a party of all the people she ran from when she left the Immortal World. No thanks to that torture!

    Grinka plots to avoid the party, until she meets a handsome tree nymph who agrees to attend. Maybe, just maybe, this year Grinka will have a Merry Christmas.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlexa Grave
    Release dateNov 6, 2016
    ISBN9781370216253
    A Very Grinka Christmas (Fractured Fairies, 5)
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    Alexa Grave

    Alexa Grave loves to tell stories -- it just so happens her characters occasionally take her on an unexpected ride. Most of what she writes is dark fantasy, but she also likes to weave humor and romance into her fantasy as well.

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      A Very Grinka Christmas (Fractured Fairies, 5) - Alexa Grave

      A Very Grinka Christmas

      A VERY GRINKA CHRISTMAS

      FRACTURED FAIRIES

      ALEXA GRAVE

      HAUNTED UNICORN PUBLISHING

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      A grouchy sea nymph who fancies herself a modern-day Scrooge. Bah humbug.

      Grinka's main goal for Christmas: survive without celebrating a damned thing. Between playing an elf to her mopey human-sized giant friend’s Santa and contending with the fairy siblings’ holiday revelries, she’s got her work cut out for her.

      When uninvited guests appear on her doorstep, she’s forced to face a party of all the people she ran from when she left the Immortal World. No thanks to that torture!

      Grinka plots to avoid the party, until she meets a handsome tree nymph who agrees to attend. Maybe, just maybe, this year Grinka will have a Merry Christmas.

      A VERY GRINKA CHRISTMAS

      Copyright © 2016 by Alexa Grave

      Cover Art Green & Red Fairy by algolonline / Wreath by dashadima

      Cover Design and Formatting by Haunted Unicorn Publishing

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. For permission requests, contact Haunted Unicorn Publishing at haunted@hauntedunicorn.com.

      This story is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.

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      A Very Grinka Christmas

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      A VERY GRINKA CHRISTMAS

      H o, ho, ho! Syndago’s bellow echoes all the way to the end of the line of kids and parents.

      Yup, the big boy thought it would be great to play Santa this holiday season at a local department store. I mean, I’m happy he’s doing something more productive than thinking of ways to commit immortal suicide, but I’m not a fan of Christmas.

      Call me Scrooge. Bah, humbug.

      Maybe it’s my bitterness over being an outcast from my own kind, but I don’t see the joy in the holidays. A sea nymph without scales isn’t much of a sea nymph, so I’ve been told thousands of times.

      I just want to survive this season of craziness. Kind of hard with a mopey human-sized giant friend and two nitwit fairies who I can’t get rid of, though.

      See, we don’t have Christmas or anything similar in the Immortal World – celebrating holidays is a human thing. Immortals never need an excuse to party.

      And New York does Christmas big. Okay, New York does everything big. But Christmas stunned us the first year we moved here. All the music, shopping, trees, and lights. That last is dangerous when I’m around.

      Hello, little girl. Syndago pats his lap. A five-year-old blond child squirms her way onto him and clutches his coat. What do you want for Christmas from Santa this year?

      Except the little girl doesn’t tell him. Instead, she stares at me with saucer eyes.

      Syndago leans toward me. Smile, Grinka – you’re scaring her!

      Okay, so I’m not smiling, but that’s not why the child looks like she’s gaping at a train about to slam into her. Some kids can see through my ample-busted illusion – the ones with expansive imaginations, at least. This girl’s probably getting the full view of my tousled aqua hair and the seashells over my small breasts, since real shirts refuse to stay on due to an unexplainable magical whatsit.

      Hey, at least I’m a sea nymph and not a mermaid – then she’d experience a close-up glimpse of what she’ll be growing on her chest

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