A Joyful Noise Unto the Fellowship

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World Cup Barbie Weather in London is turning me into a wilted lettuce, yet fearlessly I have plunged again into the circle of the Yule-fire, and partaken of the Fairfields Wassail first-hand.  At least the beer is good.  Also, all that pot-banging and fiddle-sawing has given one of my characters the inspiration for a Cunning Plan.

760 words: an Atlanta who can hold Heaven because she is no shrugger, and the rare and pleasant challenge of dramatizing profound happiness.