Enter The Contest Read & Rate Entries View Past Winners Free Typing Test Writing Resources Home | Contest | Write A Book | Write Ebooks For Cash | Be A Travel Writer | Write Children's Books Write For Newspapers | Write An Ezine | Write A Blog | Writing Skills & Tips | Novel Writing Software Please take a moment to bookmark this site and join our free hot tips list. Read & Rate Our Writing Contest Entries! See what other people have written, and rate them on a scale of 1 to 5. This is an opportunity to view a wide variety of short stories and see what kind of original material is being submitted to us on a daily basis. After you rate an entry, you will be randomly redirected to another entry to rate. You may read and rate as many entries as you wish! The user-rating system is simply a fun way for writers to receive a public opinion of their work, and does not affect the judging for the cash prizes. If you wish to enter the contest, you may enter for free here. Rate This Contest Entry: Contest: June 30th, 2005 Author: FRANCES HEIDENREICH WAY BACK IN THE BEGINING OF TIME THERE WAS A MAN NAMED NICOLAS CLAUSE AND HIS WIFE SARAH, WHO LIVED FAR NORTH, NOT AT THE NORTH POLE, BUT WAY UP IN THE COLD CLIMATE. NICOLAS AND SARAH, HAD NO CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN BUT WERE VERY KIND AND HELPFUL TO ALL THEIR FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS AND MADE GIFTS FOR THEM AND TOLD THEM WONDERFUL STORIES. GOD KEPT HIS EYE ON THEM AND DECIDED THAT THEY WERE SUCH GOOD PEOPLE, THAT HE WOULD LET THEM LIVE FOR A LONG TIME TO CONTINUE AS GOOD EXAMPLES. GOD WORRIED ABOUT THEM LIVING SO LONG AND DECIDED TO GIVE THEM ETERNAL LIFE, SO HE CAME TO THEM IN A DREAM AND TOLD THEM HE WAS GOING TO HAVE A SON, AND THAT PEOPLE WOULD CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH FOR THE REST OF TIME, HE ASK THEM IF THEY WOULD HELP IN THIS CELEBRATION, BY BEING A SYMBLE BY WHICH PEOPLE COULD TEACH THEIR CHILDREN THE GOOD OF BEING KIND AND THE JOY OF GIVING HAPPINESS. GOD TOLD NICOLAS, THAT HE WOULD MAKE HIM A SAINT AND THAT HE WOULD BE KNOWN AS SANTA CLAUSE, OR ST NICOLAS OR OTHER LIKE NAMES ALL OVER THE WORLD. AT THAT TIME THER WERE ONLY A FEW HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND WITH THE POWER GOD HAD GIVEN HIM, SANTA COULD HANDLE THE CELEBRATION ALL OVER THE WORLD. HE TOLD THEM HE WOULD GIVE THEM A BEAUTIFUL GARDEN AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD, AND THAT THEY SHOULD DRESS BRIGHTLY AND THAT SARAH WAS TO HELP HIM AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD WOULD BE HIS HELPERS AND THAT THE ANIMAL OF THE FOREST WERE TO BE USED. AS THE YEARS WENT BY, THERE WERE MORE AND MORE PEOPLE, IT BECAME VERY HARD FOR SANTA TO REACH ALL THE CHILDREN, SO HE ASK GOD IF HE COULD USE HELPERS, GOD SAID HE COULD, BUT TO ONLY CHOSE GOOD GENTLE PEOPLE SO THE JOB WOULD BE DONE RIGHT. THIS EXPLAINS WHY ALL SANTAS DO NOT LOOK ALIKE. ALSO NOW PEOPLE ARE BEING HIRED TO PRETEND THAT THEY ARE SANTA, SO IT ISN'T LIKE IT WAS INTENDED TO BE. BUT THE IDEA IS THAT SANTA IS TO PROMOTE GOODNESS AND KINDNESS AND THE ENJOYMENT OF GIVING. Rate This Entry! Warning: fopen(/home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3r_data/.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3_rating.php on line 69 Error opening file. Use browser's back button and try again people have rated it so far. Warning: fopen(/home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3r_data/.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3_rating.php on line 69 Error opening file. Use browser's back button and try again is the current average. Warning: fopen(/home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3r_data/.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3_rating.php on line 69 Error opening file. Use browser's back button and try again Warning: fopen(/home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3r_data/.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/writingc/public_html/entries/b3_rating/b3_rating.php on line 69 Error opening file. Use browser's back button and try again Skip to another entry

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