The Christmas Samaritan

BY ALEX CHAUDHURI

Just on 11 p.m. and still another thirty minutes to go. Ian cursed his boss for keeping him at the office so late on Christmas Eve. The man was a bloody slave-driver. No wonder his wife and kids wanted nothing to do with him. Talk about Scrooge. He only wished he could summon up the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future to pay him a late-night visit and scare the crap out of him....