“A Christmas Miracle?”
It
was parents in the Western Pacific who first raised the alarm. They were either doing last minute wrapping,
or their regular routines, when presents just appeared. Soon there were videos that showed – at the
stroke of midnight – presents appearing.
There was no jolly fellow leaving them.
One second there was nothing, the next, simple toys in basic
wrappings.
As
the hours passed, there were thousands upon thousands of such videos. And some even showed crude traps to try to
catch whatever was doing this, all to no avail.
Christmas
Day ended with a million questions, but no answers. For the following year it was the number one
topic of heated debate around the world.
Some even claimed The Event was the cause of several government
collapses.
Would
it be repeated next Christmas? Untold
resources were spent to better record the phenomena. But on the day, no presents showed up. This just raised more questions and more
debate. Decades later, the general
feeling was that our response to the miracle had just got us collectively put
on the Naughty List.
***
For
the last few years, I’ve had wondered how the world would react if Santa became
active. The basic idea being the world
would freak out. It was a fun idea, but
I had assumed it might have to be a novella, and I didn’t have time for
that. But the other day I was thinking about
it and started seeing this ultrashort version.
While this turned out to be about twice as long as I had hoped, it is
still way shorter than I had first imagined.
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