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    Sarah Sues Santa
    Sarah Sues Santa
    Sarah Sues Santa
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    Sarah Sues Santa

    By P.J. Leonard

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    From P.J. Leonard, author of Kickstarter campaign success 'Tick' and 'Kami' comes this delightfully festive and thought-provoking Christmas Tale: 'Sarah Sues Santa'.

    Sarah Pebbleton has been an angel all year, and Santa still didn't bring her exactly what she wanted! This is the final straw. She decides to send one more letter to Santa: to tell him she'll be suing him. What happens next sets Sarah off on a journey to three very different houses where Christmas is celebrated very differently, and she learns the most important lessons of her life about the Christmas spirit and fairness...

    'Sarah Sues Santa' is inspired by P.J. Leonard's love for the season, and is offered for FREE as a Christmas gift to you!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherP.J. Leonard
    Release dateDec 4, 2016
    ISBN9781370107391
    Sarah Sues Santa
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    P.J. Leonard

    P.J. Leonard grew up in Worcester, UK. He moved to Japan in 2010 and has lived there ever since, enjoying the culture, the hiking, and the traditional Japanese sport of tussling for the free seat on the train every morning at rush hour.He first found a love for writing aged nine, when he took what was meant to be a one-page short story assignment and turned it into a 10-page epic, much to the chagrin of his teachers. He's been writing ever since.

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      Sarah Sues Santa - P.J. Leonard

      P.J. Leonard

      Sarah Sues Santa

      Copyright 2016 P.J. Leonard

      Published by P.J. Leonard at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard

      work of this author.

      Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter Seven

      Chapter Eight

      Chapter Nine

      Chapter Ten

      Chapter Eleven

      Chapter Twelve

      Chapter Thirteen

      Chapter Fourteen

      Chapter Fifteen

      Chapter Sixteen

      Chapter Seventeen

      Chapter Eighteen

      Chapter Nineteen

      Chapter Twenty

      Chapter Twenty-One

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      About The Author

      Chapter One

      The Night Before

      It was the smell of the turkey. Yes, that was the reason why she couldn’t sleep. For some reason Sarah could never understand, her parents always started cooking Christmas dinner a whole day before Christmas.

      It’s a big ol’ bird! her Dad had told her in the supermarket when she’d asked, It takes a while to heat up.

      But it don’t look any bigger than a chicken! Sarah had said, peering at the lumpy packaging stacked in the shopping trolley.

      Dad had looked uncomfortable when she’d said that for some reason, rubbing his head and looking a little lost as he stared at the cheese section. Was it something I said?

      Sarah pulled her duvet tighter over her head, and she felt a cold chill shoot up her legs as the warm cover slid off of her feet. She pulled in her legs and shivered – not with cold, but with excitement. Tomorrow is Christmas Day! Finally!

      She twisted and turned, trying every position possible to force herself to sleep, but the smell of turkey seeped through the covers and tickled her nose. At last, with a long sigh, she peeled back the duvet. Weak moonlight danced on her curtains. I can’t sleep. It’s impossible. She drummed her fingers on her pillow, then with a flick of a switch on her bedpost a lightbulb came on. She winced, then as her eyes adjusted to the light she sat up and pulled a little diary from under her pillow. Every single page was yellow and crinkly. It felt strange that she’d never have to use this diary again. She had used it every single day since last New Year, after all. Just one more read…maybe that will help me relax…

      She flicked through the pages, reading her notes scrawled on every single page since January 1st. Cleaned the windows…helped Mum with shopping…pulled out all the weeds in the garden…cooked when Mum and Dad were both ill…on and on the list of chores went, every page packed full of her good deeds big and small. She stopped and smiled on May 8th, which had only one sentence but it was written in big blue letters: SOLD 103 COOKIES FOR CHARITY! That had been a really good one.

      Yes, this year, she’d been a good girl. That had been her mission all year. Sarah would be the first to admit that last year had been very mixed. Some good stuff, sure, but there were still too many tantrums and yelling. Christmas last year had been pretty disappointing as a result. All she’d wanted was the Uberwoman action figure. She’d got a bunch of other toys that year and it had been a lot of fun, but still…no Uberwoman.

      And that’s when it had struck her, as they were sitting down for Christmas dinner and that old Christmas song played from the radio:

      He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, he’s gonna find out who’s naughty or nice…

      She'd nearly dropped her fork. So that’s why. Of course. Santa had thought Sarah hadn’t been good enough to get an Uberwoman. The thought had made Sarah so angry she nearly crushed a cracker in her own hands, but before she could shout at her parents and complain about how unfair Santa was, she stopped herself. How would that help? Santa might be building a report up for next year already.

      And that was the last time she’d come close to getting angry. The silly childish Sarah was gone, and this year she’d become a proper grown up who didn’t sulk like a baby. True, there had been a couple of tricky moments here and there – not getting her pocket money when Dad didn’t get the pay he’d expected one month was tough, and there was the time Sarah did had go a whole month with a ripped shoe because they couldn’t afford a new pair – but she’d done it. Even her parents were suspicious, wondering what on earth had come over their little Sarah this year. But she knew better than to tell: it was between her and the big man in red.

      And when she’d finally written up her wishlist for Christmas this year, she knew she’d been so good that she deserved something special: an Uberwoman Deluxe Edition! With 5 changeable costume sets and glow in the dark hair! Sarah had almost laughed at the look on her parent’s face when they saw her list – they went nearly as white as the snow piling up against the windows! – but she’d held herself back from laughing. That would’ve been rude. Being rude was something that naughty kids did, not nice ones.

      She read on. Did second best in the class on the maths test…cleaned all the autumn leaves off of the driveway…helped set up the Christmas tree…Sarah yawned happily as the completed chores swam by. Yes, she was sure she’d done enough this year. She’d been as angelic as those angels in that other old Christmas song. And angels always got what they wanted.

      With one last look around her bedroom to check it was all neat and tidy, she flicked off the light, pulled her duvet over her eyes and drifted happily off to sleep.

      Chapter Two

      Christmas Day

      The second she awoke Sarah nearly burst out of her bed with excitement, but then curled back under the covers with the duvet wrapped tight around her. It was a cold morning, but more importantly, Christmas morning! She could barely contain herself. All year, even in the summer when she was sweating away in the garden and cutting herself on those thorn bushes trying to clear out the weeds, she would grit her teeth and remind herself…December 25th… and now, here it was. Santa had been to the house in the middle of the night. He must have stood on the roof of this very house and checked the name Sarah Pebbleton off of his ‘nice kids’ list…

      She couldn’t wait any longer. She leapt out of bed and, gasping as the cold wooden floorboards chilled her feet, she scrambled out of her pyjamas and into warmer clothes. She opened her bedroom door a little and peeked out to see if her parents were awake yet. The smell of Christmas dinner wafted over her, and her stomach grumbled. It was the only sound she heard. They’re not awake yet. Why don’t Mum and Dad ever get up early on Christmas Day? Aren’t they excited too? She paced around her room, thinking. It was tradition in

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