The Gift: An Original Short Story

by Kenny Rogers, Kelly Junkerman

the gift was an old Brownie Hawkey camera and a message from a dying "Where there's future. there's hope." Now those words and the mysterious photos from the camera were haunting russell Thompson. What hope could there be? His wife died less than a year ago, Christmas would be here soon, and he had nothing but despair. But Christmas is a time of miracles, wonder, and hope. something that Russell Thompson discovers one frame at a time.

Genres: Christmas

57 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1996

About the author

Kenneth Ray Rogers was an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur. He was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. - Wikipedia

Reviews

[Anne Marie]

A nice short Christmas story. A recent widower, Russell Thompson, meets a homeless man after happening to be in the right place at the right time to help police capture a criminal. Russell gives the man his coat, and the man gives Russell a camera. Russell discovers four pictures in the camera and has them developed. The pictures have Russell on them...the first with the homeless man (who from a news story, has died.) The next picture has Russell helping a woman at a train station, the next giving a little girl a teddy bear, and the last by someone’s bedside. Over the next days, Russell meets the family of the homeless man, makes friends with the newswoman, and enacts the pictures by helping the people he encounters. In other words, “where there’s a future...there’s hope.”

[Sheila]

Russell has no Christmas spirit since his wife died. He finds it by helping others although he does not realize it until later. Good story. Upbeat and full of hope.

[Malika-Liki]

A very quick and nice read. an interesting idea (the photos),a discovery after Kenny Rogers passing .

[Dacia]

Short story book, but I loved it, awesome writing!!!