The Happening: A Carol for All Seasons

117 pp. "Digby Bell is a struggling young artist who lives on one floor of a condemned tenement with his pregnant girlfriend Blossom, where they take in strays of all kinds--both animals and people. It is just before Christmas, and as Digby trudges home after having a commissioned portrait rejected, he notices a stray cat shivering in front of the orphanage down the street from his house. He firmly resolves not to take in another stray, but, shamed by the accusing stares of the orphans, he finally picks up the cat and takes it home. The next morning he cannot get the haunted stares of the orphans out of his mind."