Seasonable Festivities

"Seasonable Festivities" unfolds as a middle-aged narrator, comfortably settled by his Christmas fire, slips into a drowsy reverie that carries him across a lifetime of holiday memories. From dazzling childhood parties with flour-dusted faces and snapdragon flames, through tender recollections of a beloved mother and boisterous schoolboy pranks, to a courtship in a snow-swept French seaside town with the brown-eyed Lucy — and finally to a stark, poorly furnished room where financial ruin shadows a sick child's cough. The story moves with dry wit and sharp irony, tracing how Christmas transforms from pure enchantment into something far more complicated.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.