Show Notes
2024 Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest Winners: Weird Card Winner: “The Study of Owls and the Christmas Contronyms” by Daniel Roop Unreal Holiday Celebration Winner: “The Mycelial Muffinheads’ Annual Pilgrimage to the Cave of Forget-Me-Nothings” by C.L. Sidell Stocking Stuffer Winner: “All Eves for the Yule” by A.S. Hahrwort All the stories: (in no special order other than appearance on the show):
“Nativity” by John Nicol “The Sadly Beautiful Life Cycle of the Mrs. Claus” by Nicoletta Giuseffi “Rudolpha” by Nicholas De Marino “Countdown to Christmas” by John Wolf “Keepers of the Fruitcake” by Carla Rudy “Liturgy for the Feast Among the Gastroliths” by Cardigan Broadmoor “O Unholy Night” by Matthew Reyes “Northern Romance” by Reva Sherrard “St. O’Clause” by Lancelot Schaubert “Advent” by Ben Daggers “There Was Only Ever One Delivery” by Brian B. Humby “Santa Hooks Up a Sabbatical” by Paul Lewthwaite “Canary” by Stephanie Kelly “Growing Season of the Giver” by J. Rohr “Lightsgiving” by Greg Clumpner “Niklaus” by Rosa Meronek “The Study of Owls and the Christmas Contranyms” by Daniel Roop “The Mythical Muffinheads’ Annual Pilgrimage to the Cave of Forget-Me-Nothings” by C.L. Sidell “All Eves for the Yule” by A.S. Hahrwort
Please help support the contest, the podcast, and Weird Christmas website by donating/gifting any and all amounts at Ko-Fi.com (click here). The money from the prizes is all from donations. And the more donations I get, the more I can give to the contestants. My long term goal is to make every story count as a professional sale by most writing organization’s standards. You can also donate any amount through PayPal by giving to [email protected]. A big thank you to both volunteer readers this season: Dustin Pari (@dustinpari, who is always so wonderfully generous and optimistic and inspiring), and my friend Joel who wants nothing more to do with this whole thing. Usual opening: “O Holy Night” by Tiny Tim, “Christmas Doesn’t Last” by Make Like Monkeys, “Santa Claus Boogie” by Hasil Adkins, “Space Age Santa” by Ross Christman Special opening: “Christmas-Procrastination Blues” by Tom DeMasters. Bumper music (ripped straight from YouTube): by Myuu (for the dark piano) and a host of wonderful theramin artists. Contest results from previous years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018.
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Please check WeirdChristmas.com for the text of all the stories along with links to the authors' bios, other works, and all the show notes. Please help support the show, the podcast, and Weird Christmas website by donating/gifting any and all amounts at Ko-Fi.com (click here). The money from the prizes is all from donations. And the more donations I get, the more I can give to the contestants. My long term goal is to make every story count as a professional sale by most writing organization’s standards. You can also donate any amount through PayPal by giving to [email protected].
If you’re looking for any of the links mentioned in the show, they're all at WeirdChristmas.com on the post for the first part of this conversation, which, yes, is technically a different episode, even though I probably should have made them all one, although there were a couple years inbetween the talks, so it kinda makes sense, and once you've started a truly epic run-on sentence, you really need to see it through. But all the links we discuss are there in one place. The only differences are the intro/outro tunes: Music:
Craig talks with Benito Cereno about Benito's tour of Christkindlmarkets (Or Christkindlmärkte to be accurate, but we're also gonna call them Christkindlemarkets just to make sure the search engines fine anything for my fellow Americans).
Baking: Recipes & Stories from Tomb Offerings to Gingerbread Boys. Talk about disgusting food and wondrously delicious treats, along with some of the strange stories that lay behind them all
Please see WeirdChristmas.com for text and info on all the stories and writers.