Review of Prudence & The Indelibly Edible Holiday Gift
4 stars
A normal, homely, extended family gathering over Christmas:
plenty of food and lots of leftovers; gift giving, handing out the goodies
under the tree (rather a lot of technological gifts this year-game stations and
laptops, Ipods and more), and just as all are ready to leave to relax their
overstuffed selves at home: lo and behold, each one gets one more gift,
condiments in jars. When they get home and open the jars to eat the preserved
foods, all is not so well, though. I think this will probably be the last
Christmas tide that the extended family gathers at Aunt Sally’s.
Subtle, almost tongue-in-cheek horror suffuses this short
story.
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