WHOA!  Christmas time!  Santa’s invited me on his gift-giving rounds!  We’re chatting, laughing, drinking chocolate from a thermos when we land on a snow-covered rooftop for our latest stop.  Suddenly a ring of tiny, shadowed elf-silhouettes surround us.  St. Nick is confused.  “Bushy?  Sugarplum?  What’s going on?”  Evil cackles.  “We’ve gotten a better offer ‘boss’—we work for Monsanto now.  And you?  You’re out of the picture.”  Santa’s face twists in horror and the bastards rush in with raised knives.  I open my eReader.  Magic flash.  “Catch, Santa!”  I throw him the demon-forged katana Muramasa and an M60 machine gun.  He catches the gun first, one-handed (‘cos Santa’s a beast) and disintegrates the first elf’s face with a hellish blast of lead.  He catches the sword next and keeps flowing with the movement in a downward swipe; Elf #2 stops in his tracks and splits sickeningly in two from a perfect bisecting cut.  I watch in horror and awe as Santa’s betrayers get what they deserve.

If you’re ever hanging out with Santa and you see some low f***ers trying to pull a Julius Caesar on him…Echo Vol. 1 is $0.99 on Kindle here:  Vol. 1 on Kindle.  Vol. 2 on Kindle here:  Vol.2 on Kindle.