<p>The author describes how and why he became Santa Claus each year to a number of needy children whose letters to Santa he found in the postal service's dead letter office.</p>

A Christmas Story: A True Story

Children's Books

Frankston, Jay

Literature & Fiction

Whole Loaf Pubns

Original sayings by the author. Some are witty, some profound, and all are thought provoking. This is a coffee table book which never winds up on the shelf.

Seeds: A collection of sayings and things

Whole Loaf Publications

Seeds: A Collection of Sayings and Things

Religion & Spirituality

Worship & Devotion

<p>The poetry of life, both personal and universal at the same time. The scanning of a lifetime of experience in poetry form.</p>

The Girl in the Picture and other poems

"When the Walls are Paper Thin" is a 2015 Scars Publications' cc&d magazine (v259) poetry and short story book by assorted writers and artists. "Children, Churches and Daddies" (AKA cc&d, subtitle "the UN-religious, NON-family oriented literary and art magazine) has been printed in many forms since it's inception in 1993, but since 2014 cc&d is being released every other month as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1068-5154, Internet ISSN# 1555-1555), but also an ISBN#. With ISBN#s for issue/book releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book and the cover design. Writers and artists in this book include writers and artists like Janet Kuypers, MCD, CEE, the HA!Man of South Africa (with art), Doug Draime, G. A. Scheinoha, Eric Bonholtzer (with art), Richard King Perkins II, Uzeyir Lokman CAYCI (with art), Brian Forrest (with art), Michael Ceraolo, Dr. Shmooz (with art), Patrick Fealey, David Russell (with art), Charles Hayes, Cheryl Townsend (with art), R. N. Taber, Jay Frankston, Christopher Davis, Drew Marshall, Aaron Wilder (with art), Bill Yarrow, Eric Allen Yankee, Dean Jones, Liam Spencer, Fritz Hamilton, Charles Hayes, William Jablonsky, Maria Carroll, Kyle Hemmings (with art), Bob Strother, David Michael Jackson (with art), Natasha Cabot, David J. Thompson (with art), Micah White, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowicz (with art), Steve Slavin, and John Amendall.

When the Walls are Paper Thin: cc&d magazine v259 (the November/December 2015 issue)

Kuypers, Janet

Hamilton, Fritz

Yarrow, Bill

Draime, Doug

C E E

Ceraolo, Michael

M C D

Taber, R. N.

Spencer, Liam

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

When Jay Frankston was a child, Christmas felt like a big party he wasn’t invited to. Jay is Jewish, and Christmas was everyone else’s holiday. Jay felt left out: Santa came down his chimney only in dreams, so when Jay grew up and had a family of his own, he decided to give his children what he had longed for. He bought a Christmas tree, loaded it with lights and tinseland topped it with a Star of David! He played Santa for his kids for three years, wearing a rubberized mask and a Santa suit his wife made for him. Yet something was still missing: Jay offered his services to orphanages and children’s hospitals, but they turned him down. Then he was given access to some of the thousands of letters written to Santa Claus by kids, letters that languished on the post office floor every year. This one called out to him:Dear Santa,      I hope you get my letter. I am eleven years old. I have      two brothers and a baby sister. Our father      died last year, and our mother is sick. I know there are      many kids poorer than we are. I want nothing for      myself, but could you send us a blanket to keep Mommy      warm at night?      SusyJay found eight more letters like Susy’s, and sent the kids a telegram&#58: GOT YOUR LETTER. WILL BE AT YOUR HOUSE ON CHRISTMAS DAY. SANTA. Then he went out and spent $150 on gifts. On Christmas he dressed in his Santa costume, and his wife, Monique, drove him to each of the nine destinations. Eventually, some toy manufacturers heard about what Jay was doing; they gave him lots of goodies, and before long he was Santa Claus to 120 youngsters every Christmas.Jay recalls a seven-year-old girl who was visiting a home where he was distributing gifts. She hung back in a corner, and when Jay asked her if she’d ever received anything for Christmas, she said sadly, “No.” When he offered her a doll, she whispered to him, “I’m Jewish.”“I’m Jewish too,” he whispered back, handing her the doll.

A Christmas Story

Holidays & Celebrations

Cypress House

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