Ghost Of Christmas Future

While not everyone celebrates Christmas, it’s a holiday that is particularly difficult to ignore. There are countless different ways to celebrate, and there are religious, traditional, cultural and commercial aspects to it.

But what does this look like in the year 2401? Is it still around? What aspects of it still exist, what has changed, what has moved to the foreground and what is all but forgotten?

For this competition, you’re writing a piece of flash fiction (min 250 words, max 1000 words) that features one of your currently active story characters and gives some insight into how they experience the holiday. Perhaps they have never heard of Christmas, and don’t understand what all the fuss is about. Or they make an effort to recreate the holiday for a human companion, and completely misinterpret the “ancient Terran scriptures” about it.

Please don’t use ChatGTP because that would be boring and takes the fun out of it, but please feel free to spell- and grammar check.

Criteria

• Stories should be submitted directly to the BFMS, and your entry should be a link to the published story. Stories should be at least 250 words and no more than 1,000 words.
• Stories will be graded in accordance with the Bravo Fleet Fiction Rubric, which marks on the following criteria: Language, Style, & Mechanics; Adherence to Canon; Perspective; Characterization; Originality; Use of the Prompt.
• This story must be created after this competition opens and before it closes, so there is no reusing of existing stories. This will be judged based on the publication date of the story within the BFMS.
• Your story must be a single-author post, not a jointly written post.
• Using generative AI in this competition is forbidden.