HCC: High Concept Challenge 41: Christmas, with all its ancient horrors

[Scott Eiler]

On 12/1/2013 5:25 AM, Tom Russell wrote:
> "Christmas with all its ancient horrors is on us again." - Raymond
> Chandler, letter to Hamish Hamilton, December 21, 1951
>
> Those ten words in quotation marks, which I was first hipped to by my
> friend Glenn Kenny over at his blog Some Came Running, are your
> challenge. Seasonal blues, crass commercialism, eldritch abomination,
> or something else? That's up to you to decide.

Heh.  For upwards of twenty years, when I've been confined among 
relatives, I've contemplated an Ellipsis holiday story.  And that was 
when the Polar Express was just becoming cool.  But it wasn't cool 
enough for an *Ellipsis* holiday story.  Beware!

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When you *are* the leader... whatever goes wrong... whether you did it
or not... *you* are held responsible. - Barack Obama

I know. - Archie Andrews

- from Archie #617, March 2011, scripted by Alex Simmons.