White Elephant Holiday Issue

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Written By Rebecca Barnard

From 2015. This holiday season, our writers wrote towards a prompt, and wrote a prompt for someone else. Pass it on.

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A Hipster Devil Christmas, by Tara Campbell
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A Hipster Devil Christmas, by Tara Campbell
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Prompt, by Claire Lombardo: Write about an exquisitely eccentric holiday guest.

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A Loudness of Screechers, by Rion Amilcar Scott
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A Loudness of Screechers, by Rion Amilcar Scott
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Prompt, by Tara Campbell: Banquet of beasts: beasts could be literal/figurative/whatever. And they could be on either side of the table: eating or being eaten. Or they could be underneath the table doing whatever it is beasts do best.

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Conjoined, by Dana Diehl
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Conjoined, by Dana Diehl
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Prompt, by Rion Amilcar Scott: Christmas/Kwanzaa/Hannukkah/Three King's Day after society has ended and civilization is struggling back to life.

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A Very Mario Lopez Christmas, by Megan Giddings
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A Very Mario Lopez Christmas, by Megan Giddings
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Prompt, by Dana Diehl: Write a story with the plot (or could-be plot) of a made-for-TV ABC Family holiday special.

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When You Were Here, by Claire Lombardo
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When You Were Here, by Claire Lombardo
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Prompt, by Megan Giddings: A family wakes up on Christmas morning to find all their chosen holiday gifts are gone. They instead find unwrap weird objects (an old pipe, a sock with a weird stain, etc) and become very, very confused.

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Overwinternight, by Helen McClory
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Overwinternight, by Helen McClory
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Prompt, from Leah Umansky: Write in the second person. Include one or all of the following images: star, snowflake, owl, a famous tv character.

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Shepherds, Why This Jubilee?, by Bryan Furuness
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Shepherds, Why This Jubilee?, by Bryan Furuness
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Prompt, by Helen McClory: Write about the most moving thing you have seen at festive time (can be totally fictional of course).

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Submission Guidelines for Letters to Santa, by Tara Laskowski
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Submission Guidelines for Letters to Santa, by Tara Laskowski
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Prompt, by Bryan Furuness: Submission guidelines for letters to Santa.

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Cold Fire, by Matt Perez
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Cold Fire, by Matt Perez
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Prompt, by Tara Laskowski: Killer Santa on a moving train. Go.

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Elf NYC vs Elf MFA, by Danny Collier
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Elf NYC vs Elf MFA, by Danny Collier
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Prompt, by Matt Perez: Write the two Pushcart poetry nominations from the Peg & Hammer, the number one literary magazine of Santa's (artsiest and perhaps most disgruntled) elves.

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God Rest Ye, by Kevin Fanning
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God Rest Ye, by Kevin Fanning
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Prompt, from Danny Collier: If you're bitten or scratched by a celebrity, you become a celebrity. These are the plague days.

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