RE: STACH Short Story Contest #15: 199 words.|Christmas Special, everyone wins.

I walked down memory's lane of yesteryear. How those memories rushed back. For the past 18 years when Christmas comes calling all was fair, well and fun being around the bread winner. I looked at my peers whose life was hell without a bread winner, i knew their luck was dim. I knew such luck shall not betide me. I was a happy boy for the previous 18 Christmas season.

This year, when Christmas came calling, i was not that happy boy of yesteryear. The warmth of our family has become cold as snow. Alas! My father is dead. The fun we had together when Christmas comes calling are now sweet memories found in my mind's diary.

Now i have left that lane of memories into a pathway of unmerited love from Christ planted with roses as Christmas comes calling.