Dressmaker — Brendan Gerad O'Brien

From the collection Dreamin' Dreams; A humourous story in 5,700 words.
Folks, this story is true. Some names have been changed because I can't remember them.
Moss Scanlon was sitting in his shop when he heard the thud from the room above. A fraction of a second later he was slapped on the head by a lump of plaster the size of a dinner plate and enveloped in a cloud of grey flaky dust ..