My Yearly Ritual
Every year during the winter solstice holiday season, I celebrate my people’s ancient Sacred and Revelatory Restoration of the Crashed Operating System.
This year, as an atheist, I was planning to forgo it as outmoded and irrelevant to this, our modern world of the future.
My people’s gods are angry and petulant, capricious and heedless. I was forced to repeat the primal, days-long ritual.
Finally, on Friday I succeeded to my gods’ satisfaction.
Again I am blessed. For a year.