Santa Went Out of Control

PROMPT: Santa and his reindeer traveled the whole world, giving gifts to all the good children, and giving lumps of coal to the bad. The bad children used the coal to heat their homes, and weren't too mad about it.

So the good children got wind of Santa’s presence and followed him, bringing snow and fire, and catching things that burned. The bad children broke into the good ones, too, and again Santa went out of control.

“What’s he doing? He broke the rules again! He broke a rule, and he’s doing it again.”

Jeffery Horton tried to put a good face on it. But it didn’t look like much.

“You always do that,” said the Professor. “It’s the best way to teach a class. And if he breaks any more rules, you see, all the good children will get wind of his breaking them.”

“That sounds interesting. That sounds …" said Jeffery.

The Professor said, “Come, let us suppose an argument. Let us name the first question, and the rest of the answers. Now. If you break one more rule, I shall go with you. We will suppose that I am alone in the house tonight. I cannot see anybody else, but I think, perhaps, that someone is lying about. So I’ll ask him, and if he lies, I will go with him. Now. Will he tell you, or won’t you tell him?”

“He’ll tell me, right enough,” said Jeffery.

“But if he doesn’t, will you tell him?”

“Sure, sir,” said Jeffery. “He’ll do it.”

“All right. Suppose you go down and tell him.”

“I’ll tell him.”

“That’s all. Good night, Professor,” said the Professor. “I’ll expect you back at dinner. Good night, Jeffery, good night.”

He got up from the door and the light went out and the room was dark again. But by a happy chance, the door was locked, and there was still a glow from the hall lamp set in a long near-the-wall chair. It was just what the Professor wanted.

He went into the dark house, around the hall table and around the room’s two windows, to the back door. He jumped the crack and dropped out of the door and jumped up the other two windows, and then he stood on the door-step, and stepped out into the room.

There was a big red light on, and it was still burning.

[END TRANSMISSION]

Editor’s Notes

Written by AI. Generated with gpt-2 using the settings below, and using the fine-tuned model of fiction I’ve made.

Prompt

Made up the prompt myself. Sounds like a plausible start to a Holiday story, though.

Edits

Changed a person’s name to a new randomly generated name. Deleted five words at the end.

GPT-2 Settings

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