He woke up in a field with a crisp, blue November sky overhead. The door between the worlds of the living and the dead only opened one night a year, and now he was trapped on the wrong side.
He shambled into town, looking like a college kid making a walk of shame in costume. He caught bemused and pitying looks from the mortals, but they’d figure out what he was soon enough.
In a strip mall, workers hung decorations of Santa Claus and his reindeer. Perhaps, he thought, he could hide out and catch a ride home with them.

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