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Charloft Winter Bingo
champagne
holiday feast
wise men
oil
tissues
Krampus
flight
mince pies
cozy
dance
rudolph
angel
rosebud
snowblind
Grinch
annual
Vixen
calendar
nutcracker
feast
comforter
bumble
goose
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Two Difficult Conversations
Darling, I have difficult conversations every day. It comes with the territory ( Read more... ) -
Fall Traditions
Día de los Muertos is the most important day for a man of Heck's profession. It's weeks of preparation. Everyone who is anyone wants someone reanimated for the occasion. Down in his workshop, the spicy scents of hemlock and sage mingle with the acrid chemical tang of embalming fluids and chloroform. In the brick oven upstairs, his sister roasts ( Read more... ) -
Smoothie
"Come on Heck, just try it--" Charmaine urged, holding up the mixture. The color and texture screamed FRUIT in a disturbingly healthy way. She'd concocted the mess in the blender, scraped it off the sides and put it into a glass with a straw plopped into the thick liquid ( Read more... ) -
Day trip
"You need to relax," Charmaine says, and that's all there is to it. Once she's put her foot down, there's no arguing. A picnic basket is packed and the entire office piles into the Corpsemobile for a 'relaxing day in the country, damnit!'
Heck sulks all the way there.
He perks up when the basket is unpacked. Chamaine's made empanadas gallegas ( Read more... ) -
Heck's Hat
Hector Vargas, Heck to his friends, hardly went anywhere without his top hat ( Read more... ) -
For Auld Lang Syne
Hector Vargas -- oh. Hello.
Yes, thank you. I'm pleased you enjoyed our previous work.
Hm-- again? I thought we agreed last year ( Read more... )
