No Room at the Inn but We Survived
★★★★★
We had to make an unscheduled, non-essential-to-us trip to my hometown when the government required a census to get even more of our tax money. The timing of the trip was awful as my fiancée was nine months pregnant, and about to give birth. When we arrived, late at night, I visited every lodge in town. There were no vacancies. The manager of Bethlehem Manger felt sorry for us and put us up in a small garage. His wife, a doula, helped us welcome our healthy infant boy with clean bedding and warm clothes. We enjoyed our stay very much. But, their friends who came to see the baby kind of weirded us out. The scruffy, smelly boys with sheep were kind, and we could handle that. The kicker was their wealthy friends. One gave us lots of gold as a baby gift! Now, who does that? Five stars! Thanks, Bethlehem Manger Management. ~ Joey
The Story Behind the Story
December 2020, I wrote this micro flash fiction story for an “in-house” contest in one of the groups on Scribophile, my online writing community. Members read and voted on the Christmas-time contest submissions, which were “Travel Reviews” similar to those on Yelp, TripAdvisor, Google, and other sites.
I won the contest!
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