Tyler Alexander Stevens
Bio
Author, Artist, and Athlete
Owner of Strix Publications, LLC
(StrixPublications.com)
1st Book releasing soon!
Stories (1/0)
The Handwriting of Santa
Prologuette I stopped believing in Santa when I was six years old. Life had already begun to disappoint my expectations, so knowledge of this cultural illusion did little to dampen my already soaked spirits. The reason for the spirit-soakage: my parents, in a flash of traumatic brilliance, blindsided my six-year-old reality of familial life with a concept that created a fracture in a seemingly unbreakable bond. This concept has a name, and that name is DIVORCE. The result - as it relates to Santa, anyway - was that Santa would visit both mommy and daddy’s home on the same night. This idea was A-OK to my gift-receiving child brain, even if I didn’t fully understand what divorce implied. The rest of the traumatic rigmarole I compartmentalized into my deep subconscious as if I were choosing to bury a time capsule rigged with atomic explosives. What became interesting, however, was that I discovered Santa’s sophistry when I opened the gifts at my father’s house on Christmas morning. Whatever my powers of perception were at this young age proved adequate enough to notice that Santa’s handwriting had mysteriously changed into that of my father’s. Seeming to already grow used to disappointment, I shrugged nonchalantly to hide my frustration and began opening my presents.
By Tyler Alexander Stevens3 years ago in Families