What do you want for Christmas?

This holy season, he wants you to accept that it’s about YOU. The king wants you to know that you, the individual, are holy and precious in his sight. 

It’s about satisfying desire, yours and his. It’s about what you both have been waiting for, what you both deserve. I hope you’ve been good, because if you’ve followed the rules the king set, you will get what you want.

I hope you did as you were told this year. Told by that graying white man.

Someone will pay for that. It won’t be you.

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This is an exactly 100-word flash fiction piece for a tradition of writing ghost stories on Christmas Eve. We acknowledge a sinful and hopeless world, and welcome the dawn in full awareness that Christmas day brings us light.

Advent Ghosts 100 Word Storytelling is put on by Loren Eaton at I Saw Lightning Fall. Read the 2025 stories now, with some new stories appearing through the week.

Search tag “Advent Ghosts” to read all of my 100-word stories for this project over the years on Esse Diem. Then join us!