title: A Kudzu Christmas: Twelve Mysterious Tales
author: Jim Gilbert
description: Featuring original, never-before-published stories by: Carolyn Haines <i>(Judas Burning, Crossed Bones)</i>; Les Standiford <i>(Havana Run, Meet You in Hell)</i>; Daniel Wallace <i>(Big Fish, The Watermelon King)</i>, Patricia Sprinkle <i>(Who Killed the Queen of Clubs?)</i>, Mary Stanton <i>(Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust)</i>, Sarah Shankman <i>(A Confederacy of Crime, Digging Up Mama)</i>, Suzanne Hudson <i>(In a Temple of Trees, In the Dark of the Moon)</i>, Dean James <i>(By a Womans Hand, Posted to Death)</i>, Alix Strauss <i>(The Joy of Funerals)</i>, Michelle Richmond <i>(Dream of the Blue Room)</i>, Shelley Fraser Mickle <i>(The Turning Hour, Replacing Dad)</i>, and Mary Anna Evans <i>(Relics, Artifacts)</i>.
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  # Bruvver Jim's Baby
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Philip Verrill Mighels
  
  
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  CHAPTER I. A MIGHTY LITTLE HUNTER
  
  
  CHAPTER II. JIM MAKES DISCOVERIES
  
  
  CHAPTER III. THE WAY TO MAKE A DOLL
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. PLANNING A NEW CELEBRATION
  
  
  CHAPTER V. VISITORS AT THE CABIN
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. THE BELL FOR CHURCH
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. THE SUNDAY HAPPENINGS
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. OLD JIM DISTRAUGHT
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE GUILTY MISS DOC
  
  
  CHAPTER X. PREPARATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. TROUBLES AND DISCOVERIES
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. THE MAKING OF A CHRISTMAS-TREE
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. THEIR CHRISTMAS-DAY
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. “IF ONLY I HAD THE RESOLUTION”
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. THE GOLD IN BOREALIS
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. ARRIVALS IN CAMP
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. SKEEZUCKS GETS A NAME
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. WHEN THE PARSON DEPARTED
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. OLD JIM'S RESOLUTION
  
  
  CHAPTER XX. IN THE TOILS OF THE BLIZZARD
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI. A BED IN THE SNOW
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII. CLEANING THEIR SLAT