The Trouble With the Package

Christmas can be perilous.
Did you ever have a Christmas that came off without a hitch? Did you ever suspect the whole Christmas thing was in tilt mode? Or that it was a little like a train that had somehow jumped its tracks and was dancing off through a meadow somewhere? Sure you have, and so did little eight-year-old Benny.

To Benny and his brother and sister, the idea seems simple enough: do something nice for their mother this Christmas. When their gift arrives in the mail, it turns out t...