The Storyteller | Mary Vee

Photo Courtesy-Christmas Gift Six Here is gift six of the Christmas Card Mystery. You can read gift one  by clicking here . Gift two  here . Gift three  here . Gift four  here . Gift five  here . The story was posted as separate gifts for you on Mondays and Wednesdays during the advent season.  May your Christmas bring a ray of shining hope and love to you and your family as you celebrate Jesus' Birthday. Merry Christmas, Mary Vee The  Christmas   Card   Mystery By Mary Vee Gift Six Photo Courtesy The hot chocolate warmed Anna's throat. She wanted to rip the seal to see what the next clue would be but had to tease her friends first. "Open it!" Em tapped the red envelope sitting on the counter. "K." She laughed and ran her finger under the flap. A beige card was inside.  "What does it say?" Jessica leaned closer and practically tugged the card out of the envelope for Anna. Anna and ...

Photo Courtesy - Gift Five Here is gift five of the Christmas Card Mystery. You can read gift one  by clicking here . Gift two  here .  Gift three  here . Gift four  here The story is posted as separate gifts for you on Mondays and Wednesdays during the advent season.  May your Christmas bring a ray of shining hope and love to you and your family as you celebrate Jesus' Birthday. Merry Christmas, Mary Vee The  Christmas   Card   Mystery By Mary Vee Gift Five Photo Courtesy-site to buy Wonka Bar The Willy Wonka Chocolate bar foil  ripped  when Anna pulled. "A piece for each of us." She handed Jessica and Em a piece. They savored the treat even though it didn't quite taste as creamy and intense  as Lindt chocolate.  Em pointed to the wrapper. "Is there a clue inside?" Both sides of the the two wrapper parts only had the usual packaging marks. "No." She handed the wrapper to Jess...

Photo Courtesy - Gift Four Here is gift four of the Christmas Card Mystery. You can read gift one  by clicking here . Gift two  here .  Gift three  here The story is posted as separate gifts for you on Mondays and Wednesdays during the advent season.  May your Christmas bring a ray of shining hope and love to you and your family as you celebrate Jesus' Birthday. Merry Christmas, Mary Vee The  Christmas   Card   Mystery By Mary Vee Gift Four Photo by Mary Vee Anna held the card out for Jessica and Em to see. "This is going to be a fun adventure." "I'm driving." Em's car keys jingled when she pulled them from her pocket. "The town is small and the final Christmas card mystery destination can't be that far. Let's walk." Leave it to Jessica, the hometown girl, to suggest a power walk through a foot of snow. Anna and Em eyed each other and shrugged. "Okay," Anna said. The key ring ...

Photo Courtesy - Your Third Gift Here is Part three of the Christmas Card Mystery. You can read part one  by clicking here . Park two here .   The story will be posted as separate gifts for you on the remaining Mondays and Wednesdays during the advent season.  May your Christmas bring a ray of shining hope and love to you and your family as you celebrate Jesus' Birthday. Merry Christmas, Mary Vee The  Christmas   Card   Mystery By Mary Vee Chapter Three The mystery seemed easy to solve at first. Dad planted the card near her suitcase. He gave it away with a wink.  No, wait a minute.  His name remained on the suspect list but was pushed down to number two by her brothers, Tom and Ray. Slipping the card into the woodpecker's hole seemed more their practical joking style.  When Jessica and Em showed up and said they found a card telling them about a meeting at their childhood hideout, the number on...

Photo Courtesy  Your Second Gift Here is Part two of the Christmas Card Mystery. You can read part one  by clicking here . The story will be posted as separate gifts for you on the remaining Mondays and Wednesdays during the advent season.  May your Christmas bring a ray of shining hope and love to you and your family as you celebrate Jesus' Birthday. Merry Christmas, Mary Vee The  Christmas   Card   Mystery By Mary Vee Chapter Two Anna climbed out of her parents' Ford Escape and slid along the icy sidewalk to the front porch of her childhood home. Every outdoor Christmas decoration hung from the same place as the holidays before, and God sprinkled the same amount of snow in the yard. Even the air smelled of memories. Smoke curled out of the chimney from the wood burning stove in the family room. She flung open the screen then pushed the front door open. The usual gorgeous angel sat on top of the tree, silver gar...

Photo Courtesy Last year, my Christmas present to you, readers and friends, was a new story. Several bloggers stopped by and said they loved the idea. Based on the good response, I am giving another new story.  This Christmas tale will be posted in sections on the remaining Mondays and Wednesdays during the advent season and end on Christmas.  May your Christmas bring a ray of shining hope and love to you and your family as you celebrate Jesus' Birthday. Merry Christmas, Mary Vee The  Christmas   Card   Mystery By Mary Vee Chapter One Photo Courtesy Anna's friends told her the train ride home to Graysing would be bumpy, but she didn't expect two blizzards to block the tracks and delay the trip a whole day. She was tired and in desperate need of Mom's hot chocolate and Dad's pocketful of dark chocolates coated in peppermint.  A severe case of procrastination kept her from booking a flight while seats rem...