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Semifinalist, 16th Annual Writer's Network Screenwriting Contest

Quarterfinalist, 2008 PAGE Awards International Screenwriting Contest

The average person only has to spend three hours maximum at the mall during the Christmas rush. The mall's employees, however, have to endure eight-hour days, four to five days a week, for the entire rush, and it can burn the holiday spirit right out of them. Greg Mitchell and Aaron Meir, assistant managers of the Boundaries Books franchise at the Avaricia Mall and veterans of the rush, deal with everything that the first day of the season can throw at them, from increasingly difficult customers to the self-righteous posturing of local megachurch preacher Reverend Hezeboaz Simoleon and his flock because one employee just had to go and say "happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."