On the fourth day of Christmas…Carole Bromley

  ‘They came back, all the dolls’   Midnight.They rise from their presentation boxes with hard, painted smiles.   One walks stiff as a great aunt, another lifts her posable arms, the fairy doll rubs at the hole   in her hand, wailing for her wand...

On the first day of Christmas…John Greening

Magi   – I was a charming and respected teacher, an influential man with everything to lose by speaking out. I spoke. Now, who’s for Astro-Psychics class, Messiah Theory, or Further Myth? This crock of frankincense was my sardonic way (I’m famous for those wry asides)...