60 Seconds of WIP, 24 August 2023

Today’s reading is from an as-yet-untitled Christmas story. Yes, I write Christmas stories. And I sell them to anthologies.

We go through a lot of coal. The Workshop has geothermal heat, sure, and there’s the big solar farms for the nightless summers, but certain people don’t have real friends—friends who will tell them the truth. You might be one of the richest people on Earth, surrounded by sycophants and lickspittles who cheer your every whim as unquestionable moral excellence, but it doesn’t...