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    Alternate Santa
    Alternate Santa
    Alternate Santa
    Ebook19 pages10 minutes

    Alternate Santa

    By Dorian Scott Cole

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    Car trouble lands a man in a cult with very strange ideas about Santa. Very short story. Dark comedy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDorian Scott Cole
    Release dateDec 10, 2017
    ISBN9781370880256
    Alternate Santa
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    Dorian Scott Cole

    Dorian Scott Cole is a professional communicator, with education and experience in writing, engineering technology, psychology, religion, radio announcing, acting, and movie and TV production, having had full careers in several fields. He worked as a senior development analyst for Writers Workshop, L.A. He teaches writing and acting in independent settings, and has written VisualWriter.com since 1996.He is the author of several Web sites, and produces entertainment videos through his company, Movie Stream Productions. His production series, STL Comedy, included 22 professional actors, and 10 writers.Dorian lives near St. Louis.

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