How Santa Stole Krampus: An Act of Piracy Short Story: An Act Of Piracy, #4
By Tami Veldura
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Eric Deumont, captain of the pirate ship Armide, does not make a good Santa Claus. His partner Kyros disagrees and since the full moon is coming soon, Araceli can't play the role. That leaves Eric to entertain the children and hand out presents.
But there's something different about this full moon. Something dangerous. The spirit trapped in Araceli's body crawls closer to the surface with every passing hour, craving blood.
It's up to Eric to save Christmas.
Tami Veldura
Tami Veldura is an enby/aro/ace author of queer fiction. They have published short stories in anthologies Fresh Starts, Hauntings, Love Among The Thorns, Love Is Like A Box Of Chocolates, the magazine Galaxy’s Edge, and they are a contributing member of the scifi magazine Boundary Shock Quarterly. They publish new work every month, crossing every genre, but always featuring queer characters and found families.As S.T. Lynn, they write uplifting, sweet, and tropey fantasy fiction, featuring women front and center. Including fairy tales, elves, magic, and happy endings for young adults and young-at-heart.
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How Santa Stole Krampus - Tami Veldura
How Santa Stole Krampus
By Tami Veldura
Eric Deumont, formerly of the French navy and now captain of the pirate ship Armide off the coast of new England, did not make a good Santa Claus. He wasn’t jolly, for one, and he had some doubts about faking the Ho-Ho-Ho laugh that Kyros had demonstrated.
And this whole charade to entertain children? The sled and the presents and the horses instead of reindeer—In Eric’s experience, children were meant to be quietly entertained by their nanny across the room. Not catered to.
On the deck of Armide, the cold morning sun just slanting between the masts, Eric watched Kyros dig shoulder-deep into a trunk full of fabrics. It was exactly the kind of strange collection Kyros would have tucked away in his cabin—like the spotted long-neck monster sculpture he claimed was a real beast on the African coast.
The ships Armide, Midnight Sun, and Justice all rocked gently in the bay, anchored in a line outside a town still small enough that it hadn’t quite outgrown the name of the local plantation: Wells. The free black-owned estate perched in the hillside, employed the largest force of free black people Eric had ever seen, and was known in emancipation circles to be safe harbor for both refugees and runaways.
Araceli, captain of the Justice, had brought them here the first time after she and Kyros liberated an entire plantation of their slave labor and even though Eric still found it odd that an entire town was growing up consisting only of freed slaves, he had to admit the place was growing on him.
The bay wasn’t large. Enough for their small fleet to tuck in out of the wind, but not much more. Two docks stretched out into the water for smaller boats to tie up and behind the town a bit of a hilly range spiked up in the west, preventing any storms from really hammering the estate. Lush forest kept the wind under control