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  1. Mouse_at_Large still immune to Speedmaster attraction Dec 24, 2017

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    Here's a very short tale written by the acclaimed Neil Gaiman (with one tiny, inconsequential alteration). Some say it was composed as a 100 word challenge, others that it was for a Christmas card message.......

    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 conversed 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, leave one of the dwarves' invisible Speedmasters by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.

    He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.

    Ho.

    Ho.

    Ho.


    Merry Xmas to all OF members :)