A Holiday Story by Neil Gaiman.
Nicholas Was...
...older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but converssed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.
Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leaving one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.
He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyhus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.
Ho.
Ho.
Ho,
Nicholas Was...
...older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die.
The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but converssed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories.
Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leaving one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.
He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyhus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.
Ho.
Ho.
Ho,
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Greetings from Vienna !
Ren