A Christmas in the Forest

"A Christmas in the Forest" by André Theuriet opens on a bitterly frozen Christmas Eve as two friends venture through an ice-lacquered forest to visit a woodworkers' camp. Caught by sudden heavy snowfall, they share a humble supper of hare stew and rough wine around a fire, while the camp's master anxiously awaits a doctor for his ailing wife. The night deepens, distant church bells layer across the dark forest, and the two visitors fall asleep — only to be woken by a cry that transforms the ordinary camp into something unmistakably ancient and luminous.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.