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Short Story: The Advent Calendar (2024)

For our festive-themed Kick-About No. 120, I got stuck into writing a new short story but was unable to complete it for the submission deadline. I’ve finished it since and am sharing it here to continue the tradition of cutting the schmaltz and sentimentality with a soupçon of spook. You can read The Advent Calendar…

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For our festive-themed Kick-About No. 120, I got stuck into writing a new short story but was unable to complete it for the submission deadline. I’ve finished it since and am sharing it here to continue the tradition of cutting the schmaltz and sentimentality with a soupçon of spook.

You can read The Advent Calendar here.

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    […] yesterday, I posted about a new short story, The Advent Calendar—written for The Kick-About and shared here in the knowledge that, really, no one likes to read […]

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    […] at Christmas, and this year is no exception. This time last year it was a dark little tale about a boy and his advent calendar, and the year before that, a creepy number about Santa himself. Back in 2021, it was a story about […]

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