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2024 Christmas Story: Her Last Gifts
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This short fiction is dedicated to Simon Tay's late wife Siow Jin Hua.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MIEL
Simon Tay
The whole thing was commercial and fake like Santa and snowmen in this warm, humid country, Christopher complained. It was Carol who had loved it all. Especially presents, for surely no one can mind a Christmas gift.
But more. She put up their tree, made a Spotify list of her favourite hymns, and got the whole family to the midnight service so he might take communion, at least once a year.
