My Name Is Markham
Story Four in the Read all the St Mary's Christmas Short Stories before Christmas Day Challenge
Story Four in the Reading Challenge is My Name Is Markham. This is also available in The Long and Short of It Short Story Collection. Please comment below when you've finished it.
It's Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary's Annual Children's Christmas Party - attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow. Discovered practising his illegal reindeer dance and poo-dropping routine, our hero, along with fellow disaster-magnets Peterson and Maxwell, is dispatched to Anglo-Saxon England to discover the truth about Alfred and the cakes. In his own words, our hero reveals Major Guthrie's six-point guide to a successful assignment and the Security Section's true opinion of the History Department. And of historians in general. And of one historian in particular. And, just to be clear, it is time travel, for God's sake. Forget all that pretentious 'investigating major historical events in contemporary time' rubbish. This is history without the capital 'H'. Because this is the way the Security Section rolls!
Get ready for this year’s traditional St Mary’s Christmas Day jump…
The stories in the Christmas Reading Challenge are:
We hope you have enjoyed this St Mary’s Christmas story - please leave a comment to show you have read it and are participating in the challenge.
I had forgotten the reindeer show! Such a fun story. Thank you, Jodi!
"This too shall pass" words to live by when I'm going through a rough patch. I find the hardest thing to accomplish (in allowing 'this' to pass, is the meaning my brain invests in difficult circumstances.... Constant struggle between my knee-jerk neurology meaning machine and myself as an invented being