When Santa Slays: Sci-Fi Sizzlers, #15

By Craig A. Falconer

One Santa. One robot. One overdue delivery of cold Christmas justice...


All throughout Moonshine Mall, shelves are empty of the year's most sought-after toy — the Sheepy McFinnigan action figure.

Santa's elves are run off their feet trying to meet demand.

Jolly old Saint Nick himself is even busier... so busy that a Robot Santa has to stand in at Moonshine Mall's famous grotto.


Even worse, the mall's new manager Nancy Collins is sucking the fun out of everything.

Robot Santa is the only thing keeping the kids smiling amid the Sheepy McFinnigan stock shortage, but Nancy has her own selfish reason for putting him in place.


But what Nancy Collins doesn't know is that just like the real thing, Robot Santa is always watching.

For naughty children, Santa delivers a lump of coal.

But for selfish and greedy grown-ups, Robot Santa delivers a whole lot more...


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When Santa Slays is the latest in a new series of Sci-Fi Sizzlers: standalone short stories from international bestselling author Craig A. Falconer. These stories can be read in any order — dive in today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Craig A. Falconer
• Release date: Nov 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223409991

Craig A. Falconer

Craig A. Falconer is a sci-fi author from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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When Santa Slays

WHEN SANTA SLAYS

CRAIG A. FALCONER

When Santa Slays

© 2020 Craig A. Falconer

This edition published November 2023.

The characters and events herein are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Author’s Notes

Books by Craig A. Falconer

THE EARTHBURST SAGA

Last Man Standing

Into The Fire

Operation Starshot

The Anomaly

Reason To Fear

The Last Horizon

Echoes Of Destiny

The Reckoning

All Or Nothing

NOT ALONE SERIES

Not Alone: First Encounter (Prequel)

Not Alone

Not Alone: Second Contact

Not Alone: The Final Call

~ Contact Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Fractured Union

Not Alone: Leap of Destiny

Not Alone: Revelations

~ Discovery Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: The Awakening

Not Alone: Hidden Wonder

Not Alone: Endgame

~ Evolution Trilogy box set ~

Not Alone: Origins

TERRADOX SERIES

Terradox Zero: Before The Crash (Prequel)

Terradox

The Fall of Terradox

Terradox Reborn

Terradox Beyond

~ Worlds Away collection ~

~ Terradox Quadrilogy box set ~

CYBER SEED SERIES

Sycamore

Sycamore 2

Sycamore X

Sycamore XL

~ Cyber Seed Compendium Box Set ~

SCI-FI SIZZLERS

Wanderlust

Bound For Glory

Sunset Stays

Arise With Us

Whence They Came

Replica

Megaton Murphy

A Scent Of Man

Yester Year

Too Good To Be True

Happy, Inc.

Pamela 2.0

Funscreen

Pumpkin Splice

When Santa Slays

~ Chasing Tomorrows 15-Book Box Set ~

Seedling

Empty Nesters

A Savage In The Future

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In a typical year, Moonshine Mall’s Winter Wonderland drew crowds that filled the parking lot throughout the month of December.

But today, on the 23 rd day of December in no ordinary year, the crowds were like nothing anyone could remember.

For a whole host of reasons, record numbers of shoppers and Christmas revelers had been coming every single day. The mall’s management had gone all-out on the decorations and activities, for one thing, with a huge sledding hill covered in fake snow and a huge pen filled with eight real reindeer.

As well as that, a very special Santa Claus had arrived in the mall’s famous grotto.

Moonshine Mall was the first in the country where