In the spirit of the Victorian tradition of telling spooky Christmas stories, Loren Eaton’s Advent Ghosts challenges participants to write a Christmas themed scary drabble (a story of 100 words).
Click here to check out Loren’s site, where he has links to all the participants stories.
Now, without further ado, my story…
No Time For Christmas
Flint lay in bed while his former business partner, Marlowe, paced across the hotel room.
“Repent of your avaricious ways and avoid the doom that awaits you,” Marlowe moaned.
“You sly dog, faking your death. Tax dodge, I presume?” Flint chuckled.
Marlowe rattled the chains that bound his rotten spectral body. “You will be haunted by three spirits. Expect the first ghost when the bell strikes one.”
Flint slipped on his sleep mask, popped in his noise cancelling earbuds, and dry swallowed a couple of sleeping tablets. He couldn’t afford a disturbed night. He had a meeting in the morning.
Click here to read my Advent Ghosts 2021 story, The Ghosts of Christmas.
Click here to read my Advent Ghosts 2020 story, Last Christmas.
Click here to read my Advent Ghosts 2019 story, Just For Christmas.
Iseult Murphy 
🙂 Love it! Flint might live to regret that decision!! 🙂
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Haha! I think he might. Thank you, Valinora.
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Oh Flint, you’re in a for a nasty surprise! Fun flash, Iseult!
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Hehe he is! Thank you, Priscilla.
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Very good!
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Thank you, Herb
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😊
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I love it. Flint’s hard heartedness just caused him to side step a whole bunch of supernatural intervention and landed him in a world of eternal hurt. Nicely done.
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Exactly! Thank you, Loren.
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Great story! I love the new take on the Christmas Carol. Ha ha. Have a great one, Iseult.
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Thanks, Diana 😁
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I think many of us can relate. When did we, as a whole , forget to just stop and take time, oh precious time, to enjoy the season?
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Very true, Patrick. Thank you.
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Practical mitigation techniques like that are very sensible.
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A solution that can be applied successfully to many situations. Thanks, Joe.
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Absolutely.
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Ah, how hard your heart, Flint. What a great piece.
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Thanks, Ben.
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Excellent work. Too few people grasp that the best way to deal with the supernatural is just to ignore it until it goes away.
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Thank you, Dave. I know, it really is the best way to deal with these things.
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LOL Poor Flint.
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Thanks, Rhonda 😊
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