Fanta Claus

By Lyz Russo

It is a little-known fact that Santa Claus has a younger brother.

Fanta Claus, however, is a mess. When he needs to stand in for his brother one year and deliver the presents on Christmas eve, he is in trouble. Not only doesn't he have the same kind of magic as Santa, but he is not exactly popular with the entire Christmas machinery. Without the support of Santa's elves, and unable to call on Santa's magic, how will he cope?

• Language: English
• Publisher: P'kaboo Publishers
• Release date: Dec 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370553099

Lyz Russo

About books that have more than one revision up:Dear sweet Readers: Please simply download the most recent version.---------------------------------------------------------------Writer & musicianWas: Running a vibrant music studio in Pretoria, with my husband. Writing and running a small publisher on the side. Homeschooling our 3 children.Now: Rebuilding in Ireland. While we miss Iain every day, Ireland is amazing. Every day, coming back from work, I am rewarded with incredible sunsets over water, and half the landscape is in the sky. The people of Ireland have rallied around us and are making us feel welcomed. I have so much help!Iain has been my inspiration for the past 29 years, and remains so. His energy and initiative are at the basis of most things I attempted. We did everything together. When others said "you must be crazy to try this or that" he was the one to say "let's do it!" He always believed. In himself. In me. In us. In that there is Good in the world.Because of this, and because I know he's waiting for me beyond the Gate, I am reclaiming me. The me he encouraged me to be. I am rebuilding my violin technique along with my studio, on the principles we found that worked. Stepwise I'm starting to write again, though there isn't too much time for this between all the other work. It may be rough and unedited for a while.I have not yet had the courage to retake the Solar Wind / Shooting Star series. But I will. Solar Wind fans please be patient still.

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Fanta Claus

A commercial Christmas story

by Lyz Russo

© Lyz Russo, 2011

Smashwords version © 2016

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Fanta Claus:

A commercial Christmas story

It's a little known fact that Santa has a younger brother.

While Santa is the well-behaved, responsible one who carries out his duties with admirable efficiency and unstoppable enthusiasm and cheer, Fanta Claus was spoilt as a child and just never quite reached the same moral heights. While Santa brings children gifts, Fanta used to shadow his big brother's footsteps and nick cookies, and a small prezzie here or there. Santa set up a workshop with twelve elves helping (the numbers of which grew as the work pressure increased); Fanta bumbled around the workshop knocking paint pots over and getting the pliers jammed. Santa donned his honourable Coca-cola suit only on Christmas Eve, wearing his more functional but less glamorous heavy fur mantle for the rest of the year; Fanta hung about in his Fanta Orange, Fanta Grape and Cream Soda suits all year round, getting them dirty and creased and the seams unravelling. Fanta, in short, was a disgrace. It was therefore no wonder that at some point kind Santa retired his brother from the factory and paid for him to have a long, in fact permanent sabbatical on a paradise island, where Fanta got into trouble scaring the residents with his bloodcurdling hee-hee-hee and decimating the local bird population for their colourful feathers, from which he fashioned himself swimsuits.

All this came to a head one Christmas though.

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Santa hadn't been feeling too well all week. He sat down often between rounds of overseeing the manufacture, and when he put his finishing touches on hand-made toys (which he always did personally), he huffed, out of breath, and could hardly move his right arm. He broke