This is one of my favourite 75-worders, not just of Christmas, but of any of those that I have written. I was very pleased when this one got picked for publication on the Paragraph Planet website in December 2014 during its seasonal Christmas run of 75-worders.
The attack came from nowhere, the perfect ambush. Biggsy took a head shot and tumbled backwards through the trees and disappeared out of sight as the rest of the patrol dived for cover. For a brief moment Tonky’s world was filled with blinding, stinging shrapnel, but then the thudding impacts stopped. He nodded to the rest, the enemy had not staggered their fire and were now reloading. They broke from cover, snowballs at the ready.