A Christmas Tale, The Lost History of Michael McDonald

In a small Maine town murder is on the mind of one individual who will do anything to find the money owed to them fifty years ago. So much time has passed in fact that this grudge has become a generational endeavor. Michael McDonald, a generational component of the missing money, lives in denial of this fact. He just doesn’t know it yet. He struggles with his lost memories as a child, memories so terrible that his mind replaced them with a water demon which haunts him in his dreams.
Michael’s infatuation from his school days is also involved in this generational drudge but she isn’t aware of what her father did all those years back never mind his association to this debit. After he died a hero’s death their family fortune disappeared overnight. Since then she has struggled to make a life as normal people do with a day job which includes all the struggles that a commoner’s life can endure. At this point in her life she finally recognizes Michael as the person she should have courted all those years back and seeks to romantically bring him into her life. Neither Michael nor his love interest knows of the past dealings involving this debt.
It is only when a box of sand delivered to Michael’s door that the culmination of this generational grudge comes to an apex. Then there is the neighborhood kid who shovels Michael’s driveway in the winter. He must grow up far too quickly when dragged into the struggle of money and grudges that have stirred for far too long. Bravery should never be pressed onto a child not old enough to drive.
And the box of sand? Well… That’s where is all begins.