The Poet’s Christmas Eve

"The Poet's Christmas Eve" opens with a seven-year-old Pedro staying up late for the first time on Christmas Eve, gathered with three generations of family around a roaring fire in an Andalusian village. A grandmother's mournful couplet — "Christmas comes, Christmas goes; but soon we all shall be of those who come back — never!" — cracks the child's heart open with a sudden, devastating awareness of mortality. Fifteen years later, Pedro sits alone in a Madrid café at midnight, haunted by that same song, weighing the cost of ambition against everything warmth and home once meant.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.