Rating: 4🌈
Father F’in’ Christmas: A Minded Story by R.L. Merrill is a short story about loss, grief, and redemption. From the perspective of a deceased firefighter looking back at his life, especially on his grieving wife who’s been struggling since his death.
Merrill’s story is one I wish was longer as it ends just as I want to see more of the characters as they move forward. There’s pain, recognition of one’s own faults and failures, and also the ways in which we have been successful. It’s a human journey full of otherworldly beings and human struggles. And cats. Lots of cats.
I’m definitely heading to read the rest of the Minded stories, more of Louis and Maggie.
A holiday story for those not very fond of the holidays. Put this and the author on your TBR list.
Isn’t that a wonderful cover?
Cover Illustration: Art By Regan Kubecek
Cover Design: Yosbe Designs
Wonder what happens in the afterlife? Follow the adventures of the recently deceased and their Intervention Specialists, Maggie Boudreaux and Louis Sheffield.
Minded series:
Minded: A Haunted Story #1
Blossomed #2
Father F’in’ Christmas #3
A Peculiar Prom Night #4
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Father F’in’ Christmas: A Minded Story
Blurb
Fans of Minded and Blossomed will enjoy seeing one of Louis’s early solo Interventions in this wacky and sweet new tale from the afterlife.
When deceased firefighter Tommy Quintana wakes up in a gymnasium and is told he suffers from Death Denial Syndrome, he knows the one thing he must do in order to move on: mind his wife, Kimberly. Assigned to work with Intervention Specialist Louis Sheffield, he soon learns that he has much more to make up for than he thought as his widow is literally dying of a broken heart. With the help of a 1980s-era punk rocker, a gargoyle, and an alley cat, Tommy will attempt a friggin’ Christmas miracle to save her.
- Publisher: Celie Bay Publications LLC; 1st edition (August 13, 2017)
- Publication date: August 13, 2017
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 