A Christmas Eve in Exile

"A Christmas Eve in Exile" drops the reader into a Bavarian military hospital on Christmas Eve 1870, where two wounded French infantrymen — Salvette and the gravely ill Bernadou — long for the Provençal traditions of home. Salvette secretly sacrifices their last money, meant for the journey home, to buy wine and a Christmas loaf. As midnight bells toll over a silent ward of suffering men, he sings an old shepherd's carol to his fading friend — and tenderness turns to grief before the song is done.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.