Forum: Lost Stories

Hi

This is an unemployed widower(?) with a daughter, he has no money for a Thanksgiving/Christmas turkey and can only buy a small chicken. His daughter asks him to buy a turkey, he tells her he can't afford it, everybody in the store hears it and he's almost crying in humiliation. Then the townspeople help him.

Does anybody remember this story?

https://storiesonline.net/s/52652/its-all-in-the-game-revised
by https://storiesonline.net/a/Stultus
fits your description. It is part of a fun universe.