12.19.2023 - By Escape Artists, Inc
* Authors : Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt
* Narrator : Rish Outfield
* Host : Matt Dovey
* Audio Producers : Pria Wood and Eric Valdes
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Originally published in A Christmas Chapbook.
Rated G
The Christmas Mummy
by Heather Shaw & Tim Pratt
Trish led Nate from the room, into the hall — their parents’ door was closed — and onto the stairs. She could hear someone moving down there. Trish crept down the carpeted steps. The only light in the living room came from the bright Christmas tree. Even the yule log in the fireplace had burned down.
Two men, dressed in black pajamas with their faces covered, were tying a big red ribbon around a crate that was bigger than the couch.
“Ninjas?” Trish whispered to her brother.
“Christmas ninjas,” Nate said.
One of the ninjas pulled up his mask a little and ate one of the cookies they’d left for Santa. He drank the milk, too, leaving a white mustache on his ninja mask when he pulled it back down over his mouth.
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