Malky's Bottle of Christmas

"Malky was a bastard. He wasn't a bad bastard, not really, but he was a tight bastard. He was the kind of guy that if he dropped a two-bob bit he'd be down so fast it'd hit him on the back of his head."

Malky and Raymie are friends, of sorts - but when Malky gets lucky, Raymie gets jealous. A powerful short story from the author of Coffin Dodgers.