Holidays on Ice

by David Sedaris

  “Say what?” the turkey said.

  “I said, whose name did you get? Who’s supposed to receive your secret Santa present?”

  The turkey answered a thin, “You’ll see,” his voice a little song that hung in the air long after he’d disappeared.

  David Sedaris’s half-dozen books have been translated into twenty-five languages, including Estonian, Greek, and Bahasa. His essays appear frequently in The New Yorker and are heard on Public Radio International’s This American Life.