A Christmas Cookie Special 2021

A short smattering of flash fiction stories to tide you over until the big bad Santa man comes...


The Colours of Christmas

Written by Grant Longstaff (https://grantlongstaff.co.uk/)

Narrated by Luke Kondor (https://www.lukekondor.com)


The Wooden Doll

Written by Matt Micheli (https://www.instagram.com/micheliworld/)

Narrated by Erika Ventura (https://www.instagram.com/efventu/)


The Christmas Gnome

Written by Lisa Rose

Narrated by Georgia Cook (https://www.twitter.com/georgiacooked)


Edited by Duncan Muggleton (https://www.twitter.com/duncanmuggleton)

With music by Duncan Muggleton (https://soundcloud.com/duncanmuggleton)

The episode illustration was provided by Kristýna Plíhalová (https://www.instagram.com/kristyna.plihalova/)

A quick thanks to our community managers, Joshua Boucher and Jasmine Arch

And Carolyn O'Brien for helping with our submission reading.

And to Ben Errington the ongoing explosion of content being fired out of his Social Media canon.


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