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The Christmas Throwaway by R.J. Scott
The Christmas Throwaway by R.J. Scott








The Christmas Throwaway by R.J. Scott The Christmas Throwaway by R.J. Scott

Plus Zach is gay like Ben, and Ben’s mom has never once rejected his son, unlike Zach’s parents who threw him out when it was clear he was not cured from homosexuality despite all the reprogramming therapy, the blows and what it hurt more, the completely lack of love. They don’t have much in this small town, but what they have, they share. Place where people care for each other, where the town cop really works for the community.īen is that town cop, when he finds 17 years old Zach sleeping on a bench in a cold winter night, he doesn’t think twice to bring the boy at his mother’s home for Christmas Eve, and then for the following week, and then for the rest of his life.

The Christmas Throwaway by R.J. Scott

This was my feeling reading this story, that Zach ended in a fairy tale place, but the story is not a fantasy and maybe these small towns still exist. Elisa_rolle Hill Valley is like a town without time, like one of those Christmas villages insider a crystal bowl, perfect and beautiful, but tiny and fragile.










The Christmas Throwaway by R.J. Scott