title: Mistletoe and Holly: Classic Christmas Stories
author: Julia Livshin
description: <DIV><B>Julia Livshin</b>&#160;is a staff editor at the&#160;<I>Atlantic Monthly</i>, where she evaluates fiction and nonfiction works submitted for publication. She is a graduate of Duke University and received her MA from Harvard. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</div>
zlib_text: **Sea Holly and Mistletoe Kisses**
  
    
  
  By Laura Briggs
  
  Smashwords Edition
  
  Copyright 2019 Laura Briggs
  
    
  
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  **Cover Image:** “Winter at the Penmarrow.” Original art, "A vector
  illustration of a Man Traveling Near Seaside" by Artisticco Llc, "A woman
  wearing Santa clause dress in red and holding a banner Illustration" by
  One8edegre, “Swirl frame” by sjezica, and “Fashionable young girls” by
  filitova. Used with permission. http://www.dreamstime.com/
  
  Dear Reader,
  
    
  
  Christmas greetings from the hotel Penmarrow, where twinkling trees and
  glittering g