The Chocolate Refuge

By Colette Coen

Colette Coen brings together her first collection of five emotionally packed short stories and four well-honed flash fiction pieces.
Mrs Thompson's life is shrinking, but will she notice her carer slowing selling her possessions? A starring moment in the school nativity is threatened by an unusual Baby Jesus and a hostile audience. Friends meet up in the aftermath of a tragedy to celebrate new life at The Chocolate Refuge. An oilman's wife waits patiently for her husband's return, but is growing tired of their unpredictable life. And as George clears out his dead son's flat, sympathy for him shifts.