Author's Note/ Disclaimer: I'm ecstatic to release my first true fan fiction I ever created to this site! I made this story more than a year ago for Christmas as an idea for a Nightmare Before Christmas story. For anyone who reads this, I hope that you enjoy poetry, for that is (quite literally), what this story is. I would like to thank my little sister, who has always been my writing consultant and is really the more creative of the two of us. I own none of the characters from: "The Nightmare Before Christmas", nor the plotline of: "The Gift of the Magi". Thank you and enjoy!

The Gift of a Nightmare

A Nightmare Before Christmas Love Story

Part 1

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Twas' a merry Christmas Eve

Christmas cheer was abound

For all of the citizens of Halloween town

For all of the citizens, that is, except one:

The rag doll Sally whose day was undone

She was as sad as could be, alone in her shop

Of fabrics and sewing, for which nobody outside stopped

Nobody would come to a fabric shop today

For today they were shopping for Christmas Day

She sighed as some monsters outside howled, "Scary Christmas to you!"

And she cried as ghouls shrieked in reply, "And to you too!"

"They'll have a merry Christmas," she whispered quietly in her chair,

"But how can I without a penny to spare?

"What am I to do?" she wondered aloud,

"I've had no customers from the Halloween crowd.

"Lately they've been shopping,

"Every ghoul, every ghost,

"At the Inter-Holiday trading post.

"To think the one thing I need,

"Is something I had,

"In this fabric shop, it makes me so sad.

"I'm out of red fabric, gone like a bat in flight,

"However will I make Jack a Sandy Claws hat by tonight?"

Jack had a Santa Claus suit that Sally made for him

Whenever he wore it, he also wore a huge grin

But the one thing he needed to complete his outfit,

Was a Santa Claus hat; that would be the perfect fit!

But without her red fabric, Sally couldn't sew it

And without any money, there'd be no way to show it

To Jack the next day, but then Sally said:

"I hate that trading post! I hate it so…wait a minute…

"THAT'S IT!"