First sentence prompts to start your holiday stories this year

Try beginning a story with one of the following sentences:

“Santa hates cookies, actually.”

“It was their first Hanukkah together, but she now suspected it would be their last.”

“She’d said she had a surprise planned for Thanksgiving dinner, but he wasn’t expecting the surprise to be inside the turkey.”

“He had it timed perfectly: New Year’s Eve, stroke of midnight, mere seconds after the ball dropped.”