FFCGamma: Absolute Power by Stephen Jones

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It was Holiday.  The one day of the year when everyone forgot the previous year’s ills and looked to future hopes.  People gathered with friends and family to give and receive gifts. They would spend the day enjoying the good times, it was only once a year.

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FFCGAmma: Gong Hei Fat Choi!by Natalie L. Sin

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"What’s that thing in the window? They’ve got a dog hung up in there!"
 
"It’s a pig, dad."
 
"They got birds up there too! That’s unsanitary, like we’re in some fucking village in Nam."
 
Daniel tried to ignore his father. After twenty-two years of knowing the man, he knew it was useless to correct him. Still, he had to try once in a a while if only to avoid feeling like a bigot by proxy.

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Musings #7 Xmas Will Only Get Better- At First

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First, I’m excited about how the site is doing.

Flash Fiction Gamma has four excellent entries (read them here) and people who are not me are commenting on our Webcomic, Waiting for the End of the World. Jef and John continue to send us great stuff to post. BBT is doing well going into 2008 and we love you all for it.

Secondly, I’d like to say Happy Holidays to all- whatever you might celebrate, even if it’s nothing.

I myself celebrate a non-religious offshoot of Christmas called Christmas (for now), which involves giving and getting and days off and gratuities from my clients. Using Futurama as a guide, I can see that more and more people will be joining me in this irreligious seasonal celebration, as the holiday traverses a fine tightrope between complete commercialization and heartwarming sentiment.

However, one day in the distant future, we will turn our Xmas cheer over to a jolly old robot, who will turn upon us, and from his frozen base on Neptune, Santa will condemn us in his John-Goodman voice while blasting our asses with T.O.W. Missiles. Kwanzaa-bot and Hanukkah-Bot will both look helplessly on.

So please, before that day comes, enjoy this season when you can give the people you care about stuff and not have it be awkward.

Best wishes,

G. Weir

FFCGamma: Mr. Pub’s Book of Impossible Paper Magic by G. Weir

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Christmas was always a busy time for Roy. Work this time of year was murder but even after a 16-hour shift at the warehouse he needed to find the strength to pick himself up and get out there in his Pontiac and cruise from neighborhood to neighborhood, to steal all the packages he could grab.

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FFCGamma: Whose Pine is it Anyway? By D.S. Knight

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The snow covered the yard outside, like powdered sugar on a gingerbread scene.  I was eight years old, living in the high Colorado countryside on my dad’s farm.   It was an ideal childhood, plenty of space to run around in, plenty of work to teach the value of responsibility with, and plenty of love from a family that knew an eight year old boy needed, and deserved it. 

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Ramblings from My Brain with John Zakour: It’s Holidays!

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How long will be before we get so politically correct that  we say happy next 365 days, because we don’t want to offend the Chinese?

I’m still kind of bummed they wouldn’t let Steven Colbert be on the ballot in South Carolina.  Probably afraid he’d beat some candidates.

I’m starting to think there will be peace in the middle east before the writers strike ends.  There is almost as much bad blood between the two sides which is sad.  Especially considering both sides need each other and neither side is actually working in coal mines.

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