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Issue 30X: Dec. 2025
Microfiction: 56 words
By Daryl Scroggins

Unidentified Holiday Spirit

 

Deputy Shodler remembered a woman had called in to report a hawk flying off with a string of her solar Christmas lights. And that’s what the sightings turned out to be—a big nest a-top an old growth pine, decorated. All winter, hunters poured into the station, calling for help from the military.

 

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