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Fiction

Santa’s Existential Crisis

Samantha Neave finds that Christmas is a time for woe ho ho!

He was already feeling a little fragile. His wife had called him ‘portly’ for the third time that day, which stung since he’d been dieting for a full four months, on doctor’s orders. And then he got the call.

“Good afternoon, Mr Claus.”

It was his agent, Eric, sounding sombre.

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