Home for the Holidays & Other Calamities
by Chris Radant
22 short stories about real life, family and holidays.
Published 1995, Paperback Books, division of Simon & Schuster

(From the title story, Home for the Holidays)

…The next morning would begin four hellish days spent with my family. Ninety-six hours jam-packed with television, eating and being treated like an idiot…They’ll continue a grueling family tradition I call "the boil and hemorrhoid report", listing every single family member, neighbor and person I’ve never heard of and their respective ailments. They’ll drive me batty…(and yet,) … these folks won $500 in the lottery last Christmas and donated every last cent to a family who’d been burned out of their house. It shouldn’t matter to me that they eat cheese that squirts out of a can. Or that they drone on and on about the obvious. Or that they pronounce croissant "crew-sont". These gripes I could perhaps keep to myself. And what better time than Thanksgiving to give it another try? I can do this. This year I’m pharmaceutically equipped.

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