Christmas Short Story Collection
Christmas is a season of magic. But sometimes the magic finds us when we need it most.
Across eleven moving, mysterious and occasionally humorous short stories, ordinary people discover that Christmas has a peculiar way of opening doors that remain firmly closed for the rest of the year.
A lonely boy encounters an impossible train on Christmas Eve and begins a journey that may lead him back to the family he thought he had lost. A grieving daughter discovers a shop that should not exist, where memories can be captured inside snow globes, but every gift has its price. On a deserted railway platform, Victorian carollers wait more than a century for someone to finish the song they left behind.
Elsewhere, an elderly woman who has kept her house dark for forty Christmases receives an unexpected challenge from a determined seven-year-old neighbour. A father desperate to fulfil his dying daughter's Christmas wish attempts to manufacture a little magic, only to encounter something he cannot explain. An old promise brings a stranger to the door of a widow who has forgotten how to sing, while a treasured snowman, a fading family bakery and three taps through a wartime wall remind others that love can survive in the most unlikely places.
Some of these stories contain ghosts. Others contain miracles. And some contain nothing supernatural at all, unless kindness, memory and the stubborn human refusal to give up on one another count as magic.
These are Christmas stories about people carrying loss, loneliness and regret into a season that insists everyone should be happy. They are also stories about what happens when somebody notices.
Warm without becoming sentimental, magical without forgetting the real world, Christmas Short Story Collection brings together eleven tales of family, friendship, grief, hope, laughter and second chances.
Because Christmas cannot undo what has happened.
But sometimes it can remind us what remains.
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