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Short Fiction: Reindeer Games
Everyone’s heard of the nine major reindeer.
They’re the stuff of song and legend, especially the red-nosed one.
But here’s the story you haven’t heard…
Rudolph wasn’t the altruistic savior everyone made him out to be.
I know the truth. He was a tool.
You see, it all started in R&D - because let’s face it, the Elves, they’re not just in it for the toys and cookies.
Genetic engineering is huge at the North Pole - no Oversight Committees. Besides, come on, flying reindeer?
Those aren’t natural.
And Rudolph wasn’t an “accident of birth”, either.
The Meteorology Department knew that foggy night was coming, and they were preparing for years.
Not all the experiments were successful.
Some of those reindeer went… wrong.
That’s the Christmas story you don’t hear.
What did happen to all those “mistakes”?
The Reindeer Games?
Not too many don’t come back from them. And some of us?
Well, Santa has to have something for the Naughty Kids to have nightmares about and nothing and no one is wasted at the North Pole.
So, be good for goodness sake. Sometimes those jingling hooves on your roof on Christmas Eve aren’t bringing Christmas Joy.
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See more of Rhonda Eudaly’s work featured in International House of Bubbas; More Stories That Won’t Make Your Parents Hurl; Fundamentally Challenged; Sinister Sleuths; Cyber Oasis; two stories in the Charles Grant Charity Anthology, Small Bites; the March issue of Apex Digest Online; the Sam’s Dot Publishing anthology, Panic; and is featured in the current “Newbie Revelation” column on CoffeeGeek.com. She was a writer with the Fort Worth Tribune and has stories upcoming in APEX DIGEST #5 available in March 2006 - check out her website - www.RhondaEudaly.com - for the links.
Rhonda Eudaly’s story “Dream Takers” appears in the Apex Publications anthology Aegri Somnia. Order your copy today.
