Short Stories

	Never Too Grumpy for the Holiday Spirit The sun rose over the neighbourhood. Like clockwork the young Neopets of all species excitedly jumped out of bed to wake up their parents to see what gifts were under the tree. by surging
	Holidays at the Avinroo Household He sat at the head of the table in front of a set of Kiko Match II cards and flipped over a pair of matching cards. Collab with geneames1 by firefoxtails
	The Shiny Golden Star Terror Mountain was even colder than usual around this time of year, as was all of Neopia. by chouness
	Sir Kaddington and the Petpetpet Search Mildred was sure, nearly 100% and unequivocally sure that the older you get, the less you had to do. by lavo0810
	The Season's Meaning The Month of Giving was especially busy for the runners of Faefast. by the_academy_awards
	Isca and Caylis' Day of Giving The banquet hall in King Kelpbeard’s palace was decorated with seaweed wreaths, coral and crystal in shining reds and greens, and bright bio-luminescent lanterns hanging from the ceiling. by precious_katuch14
	A Song of Winter Starlight A Christmas Carol retelling about someone who’s losing hope instead of someone who’s a jerk. by neoghia
	Christmas With You The air smelt a little sweeter back then, the breeze a little crisper on my skin as I played with you until the sky turned dark. Collab with chihuahua__89 by qeenoneo

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"A Song of Winter Starlight" by neoghia
Toad’s Terrific Petpet Sitting Service was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt about that. The schedule book of TTPSS was empty, every half-hour, every hour, every day, every week. Toad checked it. And, Toad checked it twice, as the old rhymes say. Toad’s Terrific Petpet Sitting Service was dead as a door-nail. He’d been having trouble staying at home so much since he’d lost his job. It seemed like the perfect time to get some writing done but it also felt like he was wasting time not searching for a job more actively. Though, truly, what more can you do but apply, apply, apply and wait, wait, wait? This all to say, he was walking down May Avenue of Neopia Central in order to get out of the house for a bit. Unintentionally, yet predictably, he’d walked a familiar path and found himself face to face with the Planetpoints he worked for just a few months ago. The squat square building was aglow with yellow light through large windows. Toad had been miserable at Planetpoints. He’d spent the better part of ten years there and eventually he got old enough that he’d forgotten the lessons of his youth and impulsively, perhaps foolishly, left the job with little other prospects. This left Toad burning through savings and scrambling through...

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