It was dark. I couldn’t see a thing as I inched my way home through the snowstorm. It was the coldest storm in decades. I had to make it home or die. Suddenly icy fingers grabbed my left wrist.
“Who is it?” I asked.
There was no answer. I tried to free myself from the grip. “Who is it?” I asked again. Still there was no reply.
I thrashed with my right arm, flaying it about so as to hit the owner of the grip. There seemed to be no one there.
“Please let me go,” I said. “Please let me go.”
The grip was released. My frozen mesh stainless steel watchstrap had fallen off. I made it home.
Weave a Web 
What the … another happy ending?
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I get weak kneed as we approach Christmas.
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Hah!
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Wow. Glad you made it home.
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Yes – in Quebec we used to get minus 40 for three weeks! I must admit, I loved it!
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Wisconsin got close to that, but not quite always.
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So the frozen mesh stainless steel watchstrap…didn’t cause frost bite? You are feeling the Christmas spirit. The three ghosts must have visited you.
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Why not let him survive I say (in the Christmas spirit) and kill him off on Boxing Day.
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Grabby ghosts are annoying! Loved your spooky tale.
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Thank you. Grabby ghosts are a terrible nuisance I find.
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Is home really worth losing a watch over?
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You can always get another Rolex but have only one home.
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Yes, but home insurance.
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Ah! Home insurance can be profitable no doubt.
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No one was there … or was there? But a happy ending!
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Noelle, you should know by now that I specialize in happy endings.
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hmmmph
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That was a cruel watch. The narrator was indeed lucky to have wriggled free of its grip.
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The narrator had to wriggle out of it somehow.
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The sneaky alien watch – it’s a good thing he escaped it!
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If you think an alien watch is scary you should try a night watch.
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I thought you might go with his own hand holding him.
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Clearly it is inspired by the Puccini aria in (I think) “Madam Butterfly: “My tiny hand is frozen”.
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So he was being pursued by one of those street magicians who was pretending to be an icy ghost hand as a misdirection while he removed his watch? Scary.
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