Wind Chimes: Christmas Story
Collection
Victoria Minks
ebook .99
paperback: 9.99
Anthology of Christmastime
short stories
Christmas is
a day of forgiveness, love, God, and family, no matter where you live or when
you lived. These stories will take you somewhere long ago, and yet much like
today.
With a touch of humor and a family-loving
gentleness, these stories carry all the hope of Christmas.
The Wind Chimes-- Still bitter over a hurtful
mistake a year ago, Martin Roebuck meets the despised doctor on Christmas Eve.
The Two Runaways-- Lost while running away from
home, Albert Russell is taken in by an old man, who seems to also have past
grievances.
On the Fourth Floor-- Though living on the same
floor, George Nolan and Christin Rimmers overlook each other-- until a common
challenge brings them together the night before Christmas Eve.
The Spinster-- Wanting to avoid Christmas
loneliness, Milly Lambert finds herself in the cabin of an old woman who holds
a wise secret.
The Broken Man-- Criminal Arch Fisher attempts
to take advantage of a kindly old settler in the woods, but things go miserably
awry.
Winifred's Adventure-- Elderly couple Amias and
Winifred Hambly--eager for an uncommon life--discover a dying mother the day
before Christmas.
My review:
I learned of this young
author through a review opportunity for her second book titled Jonas and Olivia
http://livingourfaithoutloud.blogspot.com/2016/07/new-fiction-from-victoria-minks.html.
Minks has a lovely sense of story and fluid, mature writing style which can
only grow better the more she practices and grows her craft. I love short
stories and enjoyed each of the six Minks put together for a historical
Christmas anthology. The stories take place in America and England.
The stories are described
well. Each is layered in motivation and ethics, with a sense of moral minority under
skirting each theme. Even though the author will continue to advance in
mechanics, I was awed by the character development in each little bite of
story, the natural dialog and her ability to set place and time. Well done.
Enjoy this book and watch for more work from this author.
About the Author:
Victoria Minks
was born in Oklahoma but moved to Japan as a missionary kid at age 3. Since
then, she has enjoyed the life of a foreigner in four different locations in
Japan and has traveled all across America twice with her family.
She was saved at age 5 and is surrendered to doing
whatever God wants her to do in her life. She is excited about the future,
looking forward to see what God will do.
An avid bookworm ever since she can remember, she
has cultivated a desire for telling stories since a young age, and still has hordes
of old manuscripts from her first 15 years of life that she's too embarrassed
to show anybody but too sentimental to throw out.
When she was 16 she began the first novel she
decided was going to get published, whatever the cost. Since then she has
written multiple more books, all in various stages of the process to
publication. A self-taught Jack-of-all-trades, she takes pleasure in learning
how to web design, format books, create book covers, edit, market, budget, and
finance everything.
Homeschooled by her mum, she enjoys anything
involving history, literature, language, or art.
