Rise of the Santas – sf story

Cory Doctorow 2:27 am Thu Dec 7, 2006

"Jack's Gift" is a quirky, delightful seasonal short story just posted on Futurismic, about the rise of the artificial, institutionalized Santa:

“Still, lots of people signed up for the UDS Santa. More than UDS expected. They had to hurry and convert a lot more trucks into sleighs, and find a lot more drivers. They didn’t have time to train them all. And their shipment of fat suits came in late, so a lot of the Santas were, uh, a little thin.”

Sandra frowned. “Santa is fat!”

“I know, I know,” David said. “But the big problem was all the drunk Santas, running over the hedges in their eight-ton trucks, scraping the side of Dad’s Mercedes as they parked in the driveway, making passes at Mom once they were in the house–”

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(Thanks, Jeremy!)

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