The Thin Santa Claus: The Chicken Yard That Was a Christmas Stocking

"The Thin Santa Claus" is a short story about Mrs. Gratz, a placid, good-humoured widow who wakes on a grey Christmas morning to find her chickens stolen and a soggy purse containing nine hundred dollars lying in the mud of her empty chicken yard. Her delight is soon tested when a nervous, thin stranger arrives at her door with a series of increasingly implausible disguises — chicken buyer, tuberculosis inspector, police detective — each time inching closer to asking whether she found anything in the yard. Mrs. Gratz meets every excuse with cheerful, deadpan calm, never once letting on what she knows.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.