Here is my entry..... Enjoy and I hope you like it!...also upvoted and resteemed.
https://steemit.com/contest/@hndmarshall/when-christmas-comes-calling-stach-short-story-contest-15
)When asked what he wanted for Christmas, my little brother said simply, “a kitten.” Well this seemed simple enough. Until he gave us the specifics. It had to be a female, one blue eye, one yellow eye, and it had to be white. It was like finding a needle in a haystack in a small rural town.
Christmas got closer. We asked again, “Steven what do you want for Christmas? a sled? games?” No, he still wanted the kitten. We traveled from farm to farm and hit the shelters, still no kitten. I did not know what to do, Steven was not the type to ask for extravagant presents even as a nine-year-old and if he wanted a kitten I was determined to find him one.
I then heard about a litter of white kittens in the next town. We just had to go see, the last kitten we looked at was solid white and had one blue eye and one yellow eye? I looked at my mother held my breath and lifted its tail. You would think we just struck gold! Steven's eyes lit up when he found the kitten IN the tree on Christmas morning.
*photo from a kitten wallpaper