The Christmas Pig: A Fable

Its a Christmas tale only a man called Kinky could tell. King Jonjo Mayo the First is in a bind. Every Christmas he commissions an artist to paint a traditional nativity scene to be dramatically revealed after midnight mass. This year though the date is mere weeks away and he still has not yet found his painter. The king decides to take a chance on a peculiar mute boy whose artistic genius and clairvoyance are rumored throughout the kingdom. He sends three valiant if begrudging knights to seek out the boy in the remote countryside. Finally they find Benjamin -- and he is indeed peculiar. Nobody knows if the child is up to the task but the kings Christmas tradition -- and Benjamin himself -- might just be saved by a Christmas miracle that comes in the form of a very special pig -- who is rather peculiar herself.