Kurt Vonnegut's "While Mortals Sleep" (short story, Christmas, non-genre)
This is light hearted christmas story of a newspaper editor obsessed with his work & uninterested in fun things like christmas celebrations.
Circumstances put him on a committee that will judge the town's Annual Christmas Outdoor Lighting Contest. So we'll see him turning the job into a news making exercise...
Title comes from a Christmas song in the story (I don't know if the song is real or imaginary):
For Christ is born of Mary,
And gathered all above,
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wondering love.
Rating: B.
Related: Stories of Kurt Vonnegut.
Circumstances put him on a committee that will judge the town's Annual Christmas Outdoor Lighting Contest. So we'll see him turning the job into a news making exercise...
Title comes from a Christmas song in the story (I don't know if the song is real or imaginary):
For Christ is born of Mary,
And gathered all above,
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wondering love.
Fact sheet.
First published: Kurt Vonnegut's "While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction" (2011).Rating: B.
Related: Stories of Kurt Vonnegut.
3 comments:
Hey dude. Am guessing your health is acting up again. Hope you're on the mend.
Sorry. See here.
The song is real; it's a verse to "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
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