《Christmas in the Catskills 》作者：- Michael Libling 【EPUB】

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Christmas in the Catskills Michael Libling Fantasy and Science Fiction December 2004 Michael Liblings efforts lately have been divided between work on a novel and assisting hiswife Pat with her new gluten-free baking enterprise. No comments from Mr. Libling on thesubject of how much work goes into testing the brownies and biscotti but he will admit that helearned hard lessons from his youth when he was a literal kid in a candy store. The author ofsuch stories as quotThe Fourth Kissquot and quotTimmy Gobels Bug Jarquot Michael Libling sets the moodfor the holiday season by reminding us were also entering the darkest time of year. Some Christmas this was shaping up to be. All because of a little chocolate shop in Sturvis. And then to top it off something started eating their car. quotWay to go Livvy. Way to go.quot Of course Rick could just as easily have blamed Bon Appétit where Livvy learned about quotthemost glorious utterly heavenly hand-dipped chocolatesquot in the first place. And though mouthfull he admitted to her they were worth the detour—the dark mounds of caramel marshmallowand cashews were something else—there was no end to his carping. quotHell look at it out there.quot quotTry a chocolate cherryquot Livvy replied. She did not remind him that taking the back roads hadbeen his idea not hers. In summer you could save a good hour by cutting through themountains. In winter you just never knew. Had they driven straight through to Chartersburgstuck with the interstate same as always they might well have avoided the worst of it. There had been flurries off and on since theyd left Manhattan