Competition: Nightmares Before Christmas

Specifics

What does Raiju want for Christmas? A horror story!

Platform

Fiction, 750 words minimum/no maximum. Feel free to reference Christmas or not.

Details

Horror, "a genre of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, scare or startle viewers/readers by inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie and frightening atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural. Often the central menace of a work of Horror fiction can be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society."

As members of the Dark Side as well as members of Tarentum, we each have experienced our own horror story. Sleep doesn't come to us anymore, because the beings of our terror inhabit them. Share what keeps your character up at night.