Gifts for The Wicked: "Christmas Lights", by Jessica McHugh

The Wicked Library

9th Story Studios LLC

Drama, Fiction, Arts, Books

4.7 • 680 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to day eight of Gifts for The Wicked, an Audio Advent Calendar of Dark Christmas Drabbles.

Today we present a tale by Jessica McHugh told by Daniel Foytik with music by Nico Vettese. Art by Jesse Hawke

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0:00.0	9th Story Studios, giving story a voice.
0:12.3	Christmas Lights by Jessica McHugh. Christmas Lights by Jessica McHugh
0:23.6	1.
0:25.6	Twinkle, Twinkle, Christmas Lights.
0:28.0	Keep my present tangled tight.
0:30.7	If he struggles, cinch his throat while I hang the mistletoe.
0:36.0	Twinkle, twinkle, Christmas lights. Santa won't live through the night.
0:41.3	2. Jenna liked white Christmas lights. Daryl preferred multicolored, but they reached a compromise in the end.
0:51.3	White lights decorated the tree, but with Daryl's blood splattered
0:57.0	across the branches, the house glowed with a rosy holiday hue.
1:03.0	Three, one light on the Christmas strand died, and the others couldn't go on without it.
1:10.0	In that darkness, our own bulbs exploded in malice December.
1:15.4	We traded Earth for plastic and adored its empty permanence.
1:19.8	Our tree didn't live that year.
1:22.7	Neither did we.
1:24.3	And the family of dead lights mocked what we'd become.

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