The Christmas Bauble

by C E Aylett (Contemporary General Fiction)

This story is associated with this month’s blog article about chocolate box writing. If you’d like to read more of my fiction, please subscribe.

Timmy found the Christmas bauble in the dingy back of the hospice shop while his mother scraped the hangers on the musty clothes rails, searching out items in his size.

Or rather, it found him.

Sitting cross-leg…