Christmas is Hell: The Magicians

By Rachel Lawson

The Manchurian Candidate

A darkly funny Christmas story.

It was a strange day when Blake Alexander found out about this odd case everyone at his hospital wanted to decorate the hospital for Christmas drunk on the Christmas cheer.

But that was nothing the reapers were trying to get the after life business in line with fate's decree that they celebrate Christmas with reapers collecting people as Santa Clauses which Blake was totally against. To him it was an anathema. He felt like scrooge It was getting so Christmasy the people at the hospital had stopped calling him Dr Death on the upside but on the downside they called him the Grinch.

He was in a bad mood when he visited the police station which was trimmed for Christmas too.

 

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

It's Christmas again and everything is crazy again and Blake Alexander is suffering from it's madness again the Necromancer gives his dad a present a black T shirt with the Grinch on saying I hate Christmas on it from the Deject shop. Gabriel is giving out cute fuzzy Santa hats again and the hospital is gone mad with Christmas.

In the afterlife Blake's boss Argent has decided to bring back the Christmas spirit again with the Jack Skellingtons are making a comeback everywhere.

How far will this madness go?

Will the police get what they want for Christmas the serial killer the Necromancer's name or will the miss their present the living reaper Mortimer signed seal and delivered to them by Argent himself.

"You need Brandy," said Argent making a glass of it appear in his hand and handed it Mortimer. "But I don't drink," said Mortimer. "You can and must it's Christmas," said Argent. "Okay it's your party," said Mortimer, "Salute!" Mortimer said and drank. He ended up in wet Santa suit. "Why are you covered in drink that's not in the spirit of the season," said Argent. "I said I don't drink I'm a skeleton! What did you expect to happen?" Moaned Mortimer. 

 

The Grinch returns

Christmas carols rang around the photo with Santa area a child wandered up to Santa Claus and sat on his lap. "What do you want little boy," moaned Santa who sounded like he would rather be somewhere else. Nearby Santa's adult son watched him joyfully. "I cannot believe you got Blake playing Santa again he hates Christmas," said Santa's wife Angela to her stepson. "It wasn't me It was Argent a Santa in the Santa's agency was murdered. He's undercover as Santa to find the killer," said Santa's son Lance. Lance left his stepmother and walked over to his father shouting "Grinch, are you trying to steal Christmas again?" Santa moaned and tossed off the child ignoring him. "What do you want, boy to kill Christmas too," Santa moaned at his serial killer son. "The Grinch has to go feed the dead, come back later," said Lance glaring with eyes like fire at the nervous crying children who wanted to sit on Santa's lap. "Congratulations you've killed Christmas," moaned Santa feeling pity for the scared children, "Ignore the bad man he's getting coal for Christmas." "I'm not going there, dad," said his son knowing giving coal was unwoke and he could have said many things but didn't. "Oh come with me you brat!" said Santa dragging his son away.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rachel Lawson
• Release date: Nov 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215149959

Rachel Lawson

Rachel is a lover of gothic poetry and the stories of Emilly Dickensen, Poe, and other poets and writers. she writes in a gothic sometimes romantic, and somewhat eclectic style. She likes to do a good job in whatever she does, and she tried her hand from amateur Magic to designing objects for 3d printing. She has loved writing since primary school at high school she wrote plays and wrote short stories and made her essays look like books she has been in training for quite a while. She first wrote about the magicians in her teens. She devised Stand and Deliver: In The Moonlight in her 20's as a short story and re-wrote the story in her 40's. She wrote poetry and story into her 20's and took a break from writing for a few years while she helped out as a stage assistant in a local theatre. In her 30's she discovered Allpoetry.com and has written there ever since. She loves to write books, has podcasts and even made audiobooks. She wrote Vivienne and the reaper her tale of life, love and death as a collections of poems for Allpoetry contests and added them together into one collected short story. Rachel is a poet-writer versed in prose as much as she is rhyme. She loves to weave words and for the most part has no idea where the words are leading her to, she finds it the fun way to write. In author's words on her writing style from her poem The Flow of Magical Words. "I love words, which pour easily from my pen, when I put pen to paper a world of words does open, it flows on the page it's soul mate, though no one can read the scrawl of words which well inside and opens a gate, out comes beauty, rhymes of passion, sage words and gloom, rhyming poem, deathly prose dark as the hand of doom, the right word is magic in my hand, like a lover sigh lightly fanned." Videos are readings of her poems. Rachel's poems are on google play music and iTunes music also on amazon digital music in audio and Kobo too. Rachel is also webmaster to her own poetry website rachellawsonpoet.yolasite.com/ contact her via email there. Rachel is a distant relative and big fan of the famous but little know writer Fanny Burney who wrote Evelina who inspired Jane Austin. To learn of her google her name to find her book look on amazon she's every where.

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This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

CHRISTMAS IS HELL

First edition. November 15, 2022.

Copyright © 2022 Rachel Lawson.

ISBN: 979-8215149959

Written by Rachel Lawson.

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The Magicians : Christmas Is Hell | Rachel Lawson

The Manchurian Candidate- Christmas is Hell

The Magicians: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Wish upon a Christmas star

The Grinch Returns

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The Magicians : Christmas Is Hell

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The Manchurian Candidate- Christmas is Hell

IT WAS A STRANGE DAY when Blake Alexander found out about this odd case everyone at his hospital wanted to decorate the hospital for Christmas drunk on the Christmas cheer.

But that was nothing the reapers were trying to get the after life business in line with fate's decree that they celebrate Christmas with reapers collecting people as Santa clauses which Blake was totally