A Hard Candy Christmas

After a tragic accident Kathy, a woman in her prime, finds herself alone and struggling.  The holidays are meant to be shared with family and friends  yet it seems Kathy has only her old companion, Strudel, to see her through the frigid days of winter and the long lonely nights.

Dear December,

I found you - a thin shawl upon nature's shoulders resting in the final page of my Gregorian calendar.

Celebrations in red, Christmas and Kwanza and the tail end of Hanukah.  Reminding me in stark black letters of bombings and declarations of war. Hitler and Mussolini and Japan…