The Tales of the Unlucky Yonian by Dammi Denaro

"Congratulations, you made it to Yanta's list" says the letter. It made Tom jump out of excitement. He feels that his series of unfortunate events have finally come to an end.

​Unlucky? Oh yes he is. Even his friends jokingly call him the unfortunate one, the one who catched an ocean during the storm of unluckiness.

Just a couple of weeks before the holidays, he visited the Bureau of Yonian Revenue (BYR). It is a state agency where Yonians must get verified in order for them to qualify for various benefits uncluding making it to Yanta's list. Well of course they'll monitor how much XRP you have and all. The thing is, it was far from his home. He woke up very early, travelled, made it on time, and got in line. When his turn came in, "Sorry sir, the BYR system just suddenly crashed and it would be offline for an indefinite period of time," says the BYR staff. He had no choice but to go home.

With a bit of luck, he eventually got verified on his next attempt. Phew!

Today? Is he still waiting? Yanta said the gifts would arrive on 12am, 24th of December. He looked to the left, to the right, his neighbors' gifts have come. He looked up to the sky, no signs of any present. He tried to wait, and wait, and wait, and zzzzzz, he fell asleep.

The morning breeze have woken him up "Oh it must have arrived by now." He searched left, right, top, bottom, every nook and crany, all he saw was snow. "Was my house skipped? Maybe I'm undeserving? Am I naughty?" he sadly asks himself. Then he realized, "Nah, I'm just simply yet truly the unlucky one."