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Yuletide Madness 2025
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2025-12-25
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100
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1/1
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6
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6
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Summary:

They tell you about lake monsters. They never tell you that the lake is the monster.

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I knew when I first saw him that he would be my love. Strong and stubborn and solitary, shunning the warmth of the campfires where the other fishermen swapped lies. Proud no doubt, of the skill he had with net and line.

Into his dreams I crept, whispering songs of the depths where the giants swim slowly near the farther shore, and never mentioned that it wasn’t his nets that were ready for new prey.

And now he rows, the shores forever far away. Soon he will dip his hand to the cool water and find mine below.

Waiting.

Excellent.