To continue with the Ho hO Horrific Holidays I present to you...
an adaption of Nicolas Was... by Neil Gaiman:
39 Degrees North: Christmas Card 2010 from 39 Degrees North on Vimeo.
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 very year they forced him, sobbing & protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves’ invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time.
He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher.
Ho.
Ho.
Ho.
Listen to Neil read his poem.
* first spotted this at Fiction State of Mind
