Natascha is forever falling off the piano and getting sucked up by the vacuum cleaner.
Natascha is the smallest of a set of Russian dolls and envies her bigger sisters as they have more detail on them.
The family acquire a new vacuum cleaner and this time it takes Natascha to another world where she has an amazing adventure. But is it all a dream and related to the story the mummy is reading to young Alfred?
Up to you to decide in Natascha’s intriguing story told by Gill and Ashleigh James.
These stories were written one a day throughout January 2013. They were originally published on a blog called Gill’s January Stones. In fact, they were published in reverse order. The first one you read here, When Physics Got Sick, was the last one to be written and originally published on 31 January 2016.
Sometimes the stories would come right at the beginning of the day. Sometimes they would take a while longer.
Do they have a theme? Not really, though the idea of ‘stones’ is one of turning them over slowly on the beach until we find the right one. It’s not a bad time of year, anyway, right at the beginning in January, as the New Year starts and the days slowly become longer.
There was no strict word count. Each story is as long as it needs to be. It had to be finished, though, by midnight of that day.
Clara will not be daunted. Her life will not end when her beloved husband dies too young. She will become a second mother to the young children who live away from home in order to visit a rather special school. When life becomes desperate for a particular class of disabled children growing up in Nazi Germany she takes a few risks. Is her ultimate faith in the goodness of human beings a fatal flaw that leads to her tragedy, or is her story actually one of hope?
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