Author’s Name: C
Title of Story: The Gift
Type of Story: Y younger
Hardys
Rating of Story: PG
Characters in story: Fen, L,
F, J
Warnings: None, maybe tissue
warning.
Plot Blurb: Four year old
Joey knows what happens to people who are sick and go
away. He does everything he knows to do to not make that
happen.
Splash page: Joey swallowed
and smiled. Santa didn’t seem that frightening after
all, he guessed. Besides, he had something important to
ask him.
“My name’s Joseph, but you can call me Joey.”
Santa jiggled when he
laughed and Joey could feel himself vibrate from the
heavy baritone, “Ho, ho, ho’s!” Joey giggled cause it
felt funny.
“And what would you like for
Christmas, Joey?”
Joey looked over at Frankie
and saw the happy but tired look on his brother’s face.
“Can I whisper it to you?”
“Sure you can. Must be
important, huh?”
Joey nodded his head
seriously.
The man in the Santa suit
could tell there was a special request coming and so he
bent his head down so the boy could whisper to him.
Joey put his little hand up
to Santa’s ear and began to whisper his request.
“I don’t want any toys this
year. I’ve tried to be good but sometimes it’s really
hard. But I only want one thing, okay?”
The man pulled his head back
to look at those serious blue eyes, knowing this was
an odd request coming from one so young. “Are you sure?
Not even one toy?” But one look into those sad eyes and
he knew there was something very wrong.
Special notes: The boys are
5 and 4. Ethel Radley is only in one part. And doctor
Bates is mentioned.
Introduction
