14th Annual Holiday Writing Contest!

THE CONTEST: SUSANNA LEONARD HILL's Holiday Writing Contest started on December 6th 2024 this year! The prompt was to create a 250 word holiday themed MYSTERY! The full criteria and the full list of entries can be viewed HERE.

THE WINNERS: Winners were annouced on December 20th 2024. My entry Wet Christmas earned a 1st place win in this competition! My first-ever first place writing win! I chose to recieve a 1 hour zoom picture book manuscript critique with the talented Lou Piccolo as my prize.

The followin is my entry: Wet Christmas

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Wet Christmas

DRIP. DRIP. Slurpy slip.

Hurry through the hall.

Christmas morning’s here at last!

I slide but I don’t fall.

SPLISH. SPLASH. Down I dash.

Water soaks each stair.

Why is everything so wet?

It’s soggy everywhere!

FLIP. FLOP. Soppy sop.

Over to the tree.

I stare at all the presents,

surprised by what I see!

All wet. Yep, you bet.

Every single one!

But I see the mystery

has only just begun!

Oh no! Where’d they go?

All my lovely work!

All the presents that I made

were taken by some jerk!

Where? How? Tell me now!

They were all around!

I search the whole house looking

but not a one is found!

Here, there, Everywhere!

None are in their place!

Three hundred perfect snowballs

now gone without a trace!

Wet Christmas

By Amanda Blaylock

12.05.24

WC: 130