Christmas with the Baron

"Christmas with the Baron" follows the miserly Baron von Schrochslofsleschshoffinger, a tyrant who squeezes his starving tenants dry while blocking his daughter Bertha's romance with a young artist. On Christmas Eve, a plum-pudding-shaped goblin calling himself King Christmas slips into the baron's turret, plies him with magic wine, and drags him on a haunting midnight tour of the suffering he has caused. What the baron sees in Bertha's sleeping face — and in his tenants' hollow, freezing children — cracks something open in him that rage and sausage had long kept sealed.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.