A CHRISTMAS STORY - Susan Price
All of us Electric Authors here at Authors Dreaming Central wish our readers a very happy Christmas. It's Christmas Day, so I don't suppose many people are going to read this - apart from the odd one taking a breather from the festivities. But for those who do, here's a short and rather sweet Christmas story, inspired by my own family's Christmas memories.... THE CHRISTMAS TREES 'Oh look! Look! The chimney sweep! Oh, I used to love him!' Jennifer held up a small glass globe which tapered, at the top and bottom, into delicate glass spikes. It was a perfect, pale lavender in colour, neither too red nor too blue. The translucent glass sphere attracted light and held it, like a bubble. Painted round it was a dark-blue silhou...