Hallmark-Christmas-Inspired Flash Fiction

Trust me, this will be amusing, if not refreshing...

I know, I know. Most of us love to hate and hate to love— or just simply hate, albeit with a smirk— those corny Hallmark Christmas movies. They’re kitschy and make us roll our eyes. Every. Single. Time. And they only seem to multiply each year, as there are now hundreds of them, all with the more-or-less identical basic plot.

The plot? Fleeing from corpo…