The Great Nutcracker Rescue
Santa’s workshop hummed with excitement. Toys whirred, sang, and chattered as the elves packed them in shiny red and green boxes, prepping for the big night.
Among them stood Nutty, the proud wooden nutcracker soldier with a perfectly painted moustache, a bright red uniform, and a hint of mischief in his wooden eyes.
Nutty was no ordinary nutcracker. While his friends were perfectly content waiting to be delivered to homes, Nutty dreamed of adventure beyond the workshop. Every night, he would gaze out the frosty windows, imagining the vast world outside.
“Just look at those colours, would you?” Nutty said one evening to a teddy bear beside him. He pointed a stiff, painted finger toward the sky, which was swirling with the northern lights, green, purple, and blue dancing together like magic.
“Yeah, yeah, beautiful,” mumbled the teddy bear, too tired to pay much attention.
Nutty huffed. “Can’t you see? It’s calling to me! I’m meant to see more than the inside of this workshop!”
Thanos Kalamidas, a multipublished writer, cartoonist and illustrator; born and grew up in a picturesque neighbourhood on the mountainside of Hymettus in Athens, Greece. Then his life took him to Berlin, Germany and to London, UK for studies. After a brief stay in Yorkshire he moved his life to Paris, France while working in Tokyo, Japan and in Cape Town, South Africa. In the last 25 years he became a permanent Scandinavian resident and recently, in his glorious sixth decade, he moved to a scenic village in the Växjö area.
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