A Not So Merry Christmas
A comedic holiday curse-tale that blends Groundhog Day mechanics with Christmas redemption, exploring a grumpy character's forced reckoning with time and meaning through magical repetition.
A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.
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