Being in hospital, Donner had time to catch up on his reruns.
Donner sighed as the Candy Striper polished his hooves. He was in the wild kingdom all right. A wet, medicinal smell jolted him from his daydream.
“Good! You’re awake. We have to talk.” The air around Donner turned blue as curse words flew like coursers.
“I’m sleeping here. Don’t you know I’m scheduled for surgery today? Blast that Bart and his team of terrorists. Does the CIA know about him? There I was getting my harness measured and…KAPOW! Bits of my ass everywhere.” He glared as Dasher refilled his water dish.
“You’ve been out of it for a few days and I wanted to get you up to speed.” Dasher settled into the rocker. “Vixen’s crushing after Santa, Prancer’s crushing after Cupid, Cupid’s in denial, Dancer’s pulling shifts at Skins, Comet’s got something cooking with Jack Frost, and you’re missing an antler.”
Donner perked up. The pain meds were kicking in. “This is some good shit you’re shoveling. As if. I shared a stall with Prancer for years and he never even so much as glanced in my general direction. Sure, we’ve rubbed antlers but what young buck…wait. Back the truck up.”
Dasher reached out and grasped Donner’s shoulder. “It was Bart. He and four Delta elves slipped in last night and changed the name on your chart. To Donor. By the time we got word, it was too late.”
“Just tell me that Bart’s going down.”
“Not down, Donner. Up.”
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BlogFestivus is a seasonal short story writing challenge running from December 11 to 19. Nine days of…well, you can read all about it here. Read what the rest of the joy train riders are up to by clicking on the links below!
Nice one Blogdramedy! We have the reindeer running in every direction.
Well…it is hunting season.
That Bart is an evil soul. To steal a reindeer’s antler when he is down. How low can a Delta elf go?
The is no low…the pit is endless and eternal.
From “Donner” to “Donor” – Ha! Can’t wait to read how this all wraps up!
It could get bloody. Actually, I hope it does. We’ve been far too lenient this year.
This one was brilliant (I have to come up with a new word!). Same as Amy, Donner – Donor, nice piece of work there.
I think brilliant is stretching it but thanks for the support. This challenge is…challenging.
Love this one. Nice work. Very clever.
Thanks. By the time this is over, I’ll need me some of that Reindeer Grog.
I read candy stripper and Polished and then I thought I was taken a journey into something sybaritically libidinous . Love the story
Stripper would have worked. Hard. For the money.
I just made the dramatic dunh-dunh-DUUHHHHHHH sound.
Good. Because I couldn’t figure out how to write that.
I can’t think of a better BlogFestivus story that I’d like to rub antlers with.
I’ll bring the Ben Gay. You bring the wine.