{"id":46991,"date":"2024-12-18T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T22:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/?p=46991"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T21:57:11","slug":"choose-your-hats-carefully-at-krismas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2024\/12\/18\/choose-your-hats-carefully-at-krismas\/","title":{"rendered":"Choose your hats carefully at Krismas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46992\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Holiday Whore Hat by Kris P. Kreme\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover-768x1099.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover-1074x1536.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover-750x1073.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Holiday Whore Hat by Kris P. Kreme<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Megan is a tired girl finishing up the late shift at T-mart on the night before Christmas Eve. She and Zeke are the only ones to close up for the night, and she&#8217;s too tired to care much about his obvious interest and tendency for lame attempts at charm.<\/p>\n<p>But a decision she makes to snag one of the Santa hats at the service desk, her mother wanting her to dress festive while picking up the grandparents the next day, may energize Megan with all new ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>After Zeke points out the red of her lipstick, lipstick she never put on, Megan is finding herself changing more and more, and both of them may discover the reason too late to stop&#8230; The Holiday Whore Hat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/1665542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find it on Smashwords now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DQY5V4W9\" target=\"_blank\">Now On Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s closing time the night before Christmas Eve at T-mart, and Megan couldn&#8217;t be more ready to leave. She&#8217;s even too tired to roll her eyes at fellow employee Zeke&#8217;s lame attempt to hit on her, as he frequently does. But missing her lunch break may cause Megan to make a quick decision with lasting consequences&#8230; even if those consequences do have her earning far more than her T-mart wages.<\/p>\n<p>Tired and ready to head home, Megan asks if Zeke can clear out the registers and lock up for her. She just needs to get some sleep since her Mom mentioned they will need an early start on Christmas Eve to pick up Megan&#8217;s grandparents. She also stops by the service desk and asks Zeke whether he thinks it okay if she takes one of the Santa hats there.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is a pile, Megan figures T-mart certainly won&#8217;t miss one&#8230; and she slips it onto her head, even though the awkwardly puppy love-afflicted Zeke mentions that those hats are the irregulars&#8230; that something is wrong with them.<\/p>\n<p>Too tired to think much about it, or care, since a hat is a hat, Megan is already ready to go back, clock out, take her smock off, and leave. But a comment from Zeke after she slips the hat on may start Megan&#8217;s descent into a place she never imagined.<\/p>\n<p>He simply points out that the red of the hat matches the red of her lipstick, only Megan never put on any lipstick. It&#8217;s even an employee policy, no makeup. But sure enough when she stops to prove her point by standing in front of a mirror in housewares, Megan sees what Zeke sees, bold red lipstick.<\/p>\n<p>Even worse, and less explainable, she feels strange all over, Zeke eventually suggesting she might need a bigger smock as they make their way to the back of the store. Something is somehow making her breasts plump up, and sending her innocent virginal mind swirling with increasingly unsettling thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>But will they realize it&#8217;s the hat in time? Will the label on the back of the hat offer the answer to what is somehow happening to Megan? And if they can&#8217;t get the hat off her head to stop it, will Megan&#8217;s mind be last to change and send her into a whole new whorish career&#8230; one she is more than happy to start right there with her first paying customer, Zeke?<\/p>\n<p>Find out as The 12 Days of Krismas proves that some last minute gifts are definitely worth the cash, especially when those gifts are inspired by The Holiday Whore Hat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/view\/1665542\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Find it on Smashwords now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0DQY5V4W9\" target=\"_blank\">Now On Amazon!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming Next&#8230;  Krismas can be Draining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan is a tired girl finishing up the late shift at T-mart on the night before Christmas Eve. She and Zeke are the only ones to close up for the night, and she&#8217;s too tired to care much about his obvious interest and tendency for lame attempts at charm. But a decision she makes to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2024\/12\/18\/choose-your-hats-carefully-at-krismas\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[295,4,93],"tags":[296,63,94],"class_list":["post-46991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12-days-of-krismas-2024","category-tales-from-the-kreme","category-trance-tory-takeover","tag-12-days-of-krismas-2024","tag-tales-from-the-kreme","tag-trance-tory-takeover","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/TheHolidayWhoreHat-cover.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2iXk7-cdV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45157,"url":"https:\/\/www.talesfromthekreme.com\/tales\/2022\/12\/15\/theres-time-for-a-trance-at-krismas\/","url_meta":{"origin":46991,"position":0},"title":"There&#8217;s time for a Trance at Krismas","author":"Kris P. 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