Welcome to day eleven of the Winter Writing Challenge! Are you ready to get those creative juices flowing? I loved reading all your submissions yesterday. Let’s see what you come up with today!
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Write a short description for this character:
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“Santa’s real!” the five year old child screamed hysterically. It wasn’t an angry scream, a huge smile stretched across his face. I was taking care of him while his mother was in a sea side spa for a few hours. To tell you the truth, I was coming to the end of my ropes.
I realized why the child was yelling this when I reluctantly followed his finger to the very edge of the soft white waves.
Seriously, I thought. I rolled my eyes.
The Santa figure was probably twenty five years old! He had a smile twinkling in his eyes, I couldn’t see his grin because of the huge, very fake white beard. He had a bright red sack with something in it slung over his shoulder, and had his belt wrapped all slanted around his waist to make it so his fit body look a little more fat and jolly. It didn’t work.
What was even worse was that at the end of his baggy, red beach pants there were no shoes! Santa Clause with no shoes! That’s just so wrong!
The white puff ball on the tip of his hat waggled as he lifted his free hand to wave. And to my great disappointment, the man began to stride towards us in the most un-santa-like walk I’ve ever seen.
I gripped the boy’s hand so he couldn’t run from me and stood there waiting the inevitable.
But suddenly the very fake, white beard slid off the young man’s face, and bam, Barefoot Santa stood there looking more sheepish than an elf caught stealing presents. I tried to hold my sarcastic giggles in.
The grip got tighter on my hand as the boy screamed, this time with a frown just as big as his previous grin, “Santa’s not real!”
With Buddy Elf deciding to take Christmas so Santa can rest, Santa looked around for a vacation but unfortunately he got lost and landed on this island