Tag: the advent calendar ’22
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#18- WHAT HAPPENED TO US?
‘Hello Martin.’ Martin curses under his breath, he needs to change the locks no more unwelcomed visitors in his house, especially children and ex-wives. ‘What are you doing here Gyll? How did you get in?’ ‘I used to live here. Raised five children here.’ Gyll answers, she’d been waiting on her ex-husband to come home.…
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#17- TURN IT UP
‘You better be careful with that arm or you might wreck your average.’ Cliff has been watching Rocco go hard to bat for an hour straight. The man with the golden leftie they call him. Dapo called to let him know their friend was hitting hard balls so they know there is a problem. ‘Nah…
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#16- Little Jiji
It started out like any other morning in the Adamson household except Jorja was staying home from school because she’d come down with a cold and had to be sent home the day before. As usual the child liked to stay in the kitchens with the household staff, looking forward to the flower delivery by…
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#8- Daddy’s Girl
‘You need to refute the story I have just been told.’ Martin says through clenched teeth over the phone to JJ. There was a time JJ would have cowered at that tone of voice from her father, literally hide behind Fenmore shaking. But something about being far away from home and an apprentice in a…
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#4- Mother. Father. Daughter.
‘Careful. Please be gentle.’ JJ watches her trusted workmen delicately carry the flower wall out of the studio to be delivered to their final destination, a blushing bride in Maine. Downstairs the store is a hive of activity for the holidays, last minute orders in person since they closed the online order portal a week…