A bonus: A free story from my already very-reasonably priced (just $0.99!) collection "Some Xmas Stories" which would make excellent reading for you and your family tonight around the tree! This story isn't "Other Snowmen," which is my personal favorite among them all, but it's a good one:
Xmas Monsters
We all got monsters for Xmas, monsters so beautifully
amazing, so fun to look at, nobody even minded when they started destroying
everything.
They made the destruction beautiful! They sung hymns through
their fangs as they tore down skyscrapers or collapsed bridges full of cars full
of people coming home from midnight Mass. Things exploded like fireworks or
glowed like stars. We survivors followed them through the decimated city,
enthralled as electricity arced against ivory claws, as the screams of the
dying harmonized with the monsters’ choir.
They tore apart May’s gramma’s house while they sang We Three Kings and May thought that was
extra-special because it was her gramma’s favorite carol.
When everything was destroyed, they retreated into the
wilderness. We huddled around a burning
pile of cars, watching the sparks fly off into the sky, where the northern
lights were visible above the glowing wreckage of city. It was beautiful. Stephen said “We should do this every year.”
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Remember, you can buy that collection of short stories right here for less than a buck! It would make me very happy for Xmas if I sold, like, a million copies. And that's what Xmas is all about, right?
A smattering of pix:
Remember, you can buy that collection of short stories right here for less than a buck! It would make me very happy for Xmas if I sold, like, a million copies. And that's what Xmas is all about, right?
A smattering of pix:
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