Gifts for The Wicked: "You Better Not Cry", by Meg Hafdahl
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Today we present a tale by Meg Hafdahl 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. |
| 0:12.0 | You better You Better Not Cry by Meg Haftall. |
| 0:27.6 | I wanted the fire. I had stoked it to perfection. But my girls were worried Santa was going to burn his butt on the way down. |
| 0:40.1 | I dragged myself out of my leather recliner, using a poker to suffocate the flames, spread out the ash. |
| 0:48.1 | Then a growl, wet and hungry, came from inside the chimney, echoed against the sooted bricks. Instinct pulled |
| 0:58.1 | me forward into the diffusing smoke. Mucous dribbled onto the logs from above, landing |
| 1:06.4 | with a hiss. I had to look, melled flesh, coal eyes. A serpentine tongue flicking, a red velvet hat with a |
| 1:18.6 | white pom-pom fell from its grotesque, scaly head, blinding me from its advance. |
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