What if Santa Claus offered you three wishes on Christmas Eve? What would you wish for? What would you do?
Edmund Schofield III, an American educated in England, needs a Christmas miracle. Despite his expensive boarding school and Cambridge University education, he is a failure in business, a failure in life, and a failure in relationships. Of course, if you're on the naughty list, as Edmund has been consistently year after year, you may want opt for a stocking full of coal instead.
The maxim has never been true than in this strange, Christmas fantasy "Be careful what you wish for; you just may get it."
If holiday horror is your cup of nog, or if yuletide fantasy with a twist gives you a holly jolly Christmas, then this Merry Xmas short read from Shmentov is just for you.
It's the Twilight Zone meets a Claus encounter of the disturbing kind.