On the Feast of Stephen

 

 

It's rotten having a birthday just before Christmas. 

Sometimes Toby gets just one present for both his birthday and Christmas. Sometimes people just give him money because they've run out of present ideas.  Then when he comes to spend that money there's hardly anything left in the shops. It’s the same this year. He can't find any Lego bricks he wants. 

An old man who reminds him of his Grandpa Jack is sitting cold and hungry on the street. Toby thinks of another use for his birthday money.  What he does afterwards reminds his Grandpa Jack of a well-known Christmas song.  

On the Feast of Stephen by Gill and Ashleigh James is a feel-good story for early readers. 

 

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The Spruce by Jeanne Davies, illustrated by Harriet Taylor

 

The finery of Christmas only lasts a short while.

The excitement fades and the children lose interest in the little tree.  It now longs for the life it had before.   It realises that being amongst nature even in all sorts of weather was far more rewarding that being stuck indoors.  And it would have had an advantage over the other trees; it would have remained while they lost their leaves in the autumn.

Now, though, the warmth in the house has made it shed most of its needles and it is confined to a dustbin.

Yet there is hope. One of the children finds a way of being kinder to its nature. 

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Magi

 

Magi, in Christian tradition, refers to the noble pilgrims who followed the star from the east to Bethlehem.

Were there three of them or were there twelve? Did they really bring gold, frankincense and myrrh? As well as their wisdom? And other gifts? Did a careless question lead to the slaughter of the innocents?

Our writers however, have found many different interpretations of this word. Some will make you laugh and some may make you cry. They will all make you think.

Magi is the 2025 themed multi-author collection from Bridge House Publishing.

 

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280 x70 by Gill James

 

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What does that first picture that you see each day on social media say? Sometimes it makes you laugh and sometime it fills you with dread, all of which you must express in exactly 280 words. That was the challenge. It’s up to the reader to decide if it’s been met.

These very short stories wander and wonder through multiple aspects of 21st century life, give a nod to the future and a glance back at the past. They pose questions and occasionally offer suggestions.

Gill James offers food for thought in 280 x 70.

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Making Lemonade

 

They knew something was wrong. But no one spoke up.

When something terrible happens to fourteen-year-old Joanne Wilson, it shatters the heart of an ordinary street in an ordinary town. During the following twelve months, the residents of Station Square have their own stories and secrets to tell. Did tea-leaf-reading mystic, Maisie, see it coming? What about Joanne’s close friend, Adrian? Or her family friend, Elizabeth? Each of them faces an excruciating question: Could they have prevented this tragedy?

Making Lemonade is a poignant exploration of community, loss, and the cost of silence.

All profits will be donated to the charity PAPYRUS.

 

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