Joylynn Hardesty

After ten years of service, Agent Jim has just been fired from the Odd Squad.

This short attempts to find not the true meaning of Christmas, but rather, what it has never meant.

A birthday party at Shelby Farms, Tennessee.

With only hazy memories of a time before, a person finds themselves in an empty suburban street enveloped by absolute darkness. The only landmarks are a sign explaining nothing, and a street light providing the only visibility and oppressive warmth. Trying to leave, they discover they cannot exist without the street light's beam. With rising desperation they decide that they must escape past the dark.