The Werewolf Before Christmas

By Charles Payseur

Ray seems like the perfect boyfriend -- he’s gorgeous, incredibly romantic, and has a mechanical suit that he invented to become the dastardly MantaRay. For Alec, who also spends his nights making life difficult for do-gooders everywhere, it’s a match made in supervillain heaven. Except that Ray is a bit too into the hit soap opera, All My Werewolves. When tempers flare during what’s supposed to be a quiet night out, Alec nearly ruins everything over a stupid bet with an alien gorilla.

Desperate to prove his feelings to Ray, and with Christmas fast approaching, Alec decides the fastest way to Ray’s heart is by embracing the thing that threatens to divide them -- a certain werewolf show with a certain star actor who Ray admires. A simple case of kidnapping promises to do the trick, only fur (and fandom) fly when Alec’s romantic gesture leads to a very hairy situation.

Can Alec prove to Ray how much their relationship means to him, or will his plans be ruined by the werewolf before Christmas?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Feb 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9781685503833

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The Werewolf Before Christmas

By Charles Payseur

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Copyright 2023 Charles Payseur

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The Werewolf Before Christmas

By Charles Payseur

The Sinister Plan was packed, but most of the bar patrons were crowded around the big-screen television in the front, leaving the back a bit more open, except for those who were so large that they would otherwise block everyone’s view of the latest episode of All My Werewolves. And, of course, Alec Azam, who sat absently twirling his short mustache with one hand and drinking from a quickly depleting glass with the other.

I just can’t understand how you can watch this, Alec said, rolling his eyes as the bar erupted in cheers as two of the characters embraced for a sultry kiss, only to be broken midway through by a slap, a round of shouting, and a subsequent werewolf battle. The show isn’t accurate with regards to werewolves. At all. It’s not even a full moon out. It looks to be the middle of the day.

These are science werewolves, Ray said, his gaze not leaving the screen, not magic werewolves. They were created by a secret government agency to be supersoldiers and then disavowed when they broke out and took refuge in the Rocky Mountains. Now they’re ski instructors-slash-superspies working for a secret counter-government freedom front that fights against the exploitation of supernatural beings. They can shift whenever they want. Didn’t you pay attention during season two?

Alec watched as Ray took a sip from his Shirley Temple, the small drink almost looking comical when compared to the large pack on Ray’s back, which was nearly as big again as the rest of him, and which, when needed, could be expanded even farther into his MantaRay suit. It was surreal seeing a man who had fought Gravity to a standstill and one time knocked Maxim into a cement truck, daintily hold his nonalcoholic drink and watch a show that made a mockery of the supernatural.

I must have fallen asleep during that part, Alec said. Truth be told, he had slept through most of the show he’d been forced to endure.

Ray always got far too intent to pay attention, and after all of Alec’s attempts to steer their nights into steamier territory were rebuked, sleep seemed a more appropriate response than seeing if Ray would notice if he just started masturbating right there on the couch.

You should pay attention more. The voice was new, and belonged to the man sitting at the table next