All I Want for Christmas Contest 2024!

Paul marked Ded.

I walk in the door from a relatively light day at work. Kiss my wife, son and daughter, get my usual welcome from the pup who acts like I’ve been gone for decades everyday (I love it), and go upstairs to get dressed for the gym. On my way up the stairs, my wife says, “Alexa, play holiday music.”
I saw my life flash before my eyes. The joy, the laughter, the tears, the highs and the lows. My first kiss with Catherine when I was 9. The day I got my driver’s license at 16. Meeting my wife. The birth of my children…. all as Mariah assassinated me on the stairs of my home. Gone. Kaput. Ded.