Dear Satan

Careful what you ask for, because Lucifer sees you when you’re sleeping. Spies when you’re awake. Knows if you’ve been nauseatingly good, so try to be bad for the devil’s sake. Merry is determined to make Christmas special for her son. He hasn’t spoken or smiled since his father died, so she writes a letter hoping for a holiday miracle. Dear Satan… Her unfortunate error ensures her wish ends up in the wrong place. Worse? Satan answers her plea—after telling Santa where he can shove a candy cane. The devil knows just what Merry needs, and he has the perfect demon for the job. Marduke’s mission is to deliver a hellhound puppy to a little boy, along with some tips on how to avoid getting eaten. What the devil’s kennel master doesn’t expect on this emasculating mission of kindness is Merry. A happy, optimistic woman despite all the strife in her life. It’s disgusting. Annoying. Tempting? Usually, Marduke is all about destroying hopes and dreams—and letting his dogs pee on people while they’re down—but there’s something about Merry… genre: paranormal romantic comedy, demon romance, shapeshifter romance, holiday romance, satan romance, matchmaking, cozy romance, hell romance

When a slightly scorched letter to Santa lands in Satan’s lap, the matchmaking cats of the goddesses find their latest match heating up in Hell. Starlight may be human, but she lives in Zero, Kansas, which means she knows quite a bit about the paranormal world. So she's not even fazed when Christmas morning dawns bright and hot in Hell or when her daughter's Christmas kittens display some very demon-like qualities. Talon's been unsuccessfully courting his human mate for the past six months. When she disappears and all evidence points to her being in the Underworld, he doesn't hesitate to follow her. He's prepared to go head-to-head with Satan himself to win back his mate. Unfortunately, Starlight's not exactly in a hurry to leave. Turns out, Hell isn't that bad, at least not when you're living in its Bed & Breakfast. Sure, it's a little hot, but for once, someone else is doing the cooking and the cleaning and Starlight is loving it. In fact, life is pretty damn good down south. The matchmaking cats of the goddesses have their work cut out for them when it comes to ensuring this match made in Hell is pawsitively purrfect.

Communism is the history lesson to be garnered from the 20th century. First burned into the history books from Germany, France, and key American capitalists, it cast its dark shadows over the Soviet Empire and Asia to engulf about a third of the world’s population. During a White House meeting regarding ISIS, after calling Nancy Pelosi a "third rate politician," President Donald Trump stated that the Kurds were Communists, and all the Democrats must be incredibly pleased about that. Trump labeling the entire Democrat Party as Communists was not carried by the mainstream media. The White House stated that, over the last 100 years, totalitarian Communist regimes around the world have murdered more than 100 million and exposed countless more to violence, exploitation, and devastation. Using the pretense of liberation, Communist rulers robbed populations of their rights of free worship, freedom of association, and other rights we in the United States deem sacrosanct. Citizens, promised freedom, instead found themselves subjugated through fear, violence, and torture. Obama talked about growing the “Movement" in college. It was all about, for Obama, collectivism, and wealth redistribution, which would net him and his wife $100 million over 10 years. The classic institutional gangsterism, rob from the poor and the middle class and give it to the rich Communist leaders, has been a theme of Communism for every major Communist movement and country in the world. Communists now lead the Democrat Party, if not the Deep State.. Let's take a close look at its history and methods and why you and your family will always be under attack as Americans. Let’s see who falls on the “Blacklist.”

Marcy has always said everyone is welcome at her dinner table on Christmas Eve. That was before her youngest daughter brought a new friend home. A friend with horns and a pitchfork. Now Marcy’s mother won’t shut up about how in her day, girls only brought respectable men home for the holidays. Her brother-in-law is making booze-fueled jokes about how they’ll all have a devil of a time tonight. And her husband, off in the clouds as always, is no help. No one at the table is perfect. Least of all Marcy herself. But has she finally found the one guest she can’t open her heart and her home to? This short story is 2700 words long. It is also available in Santa’s Rejects, a collection of offbeat Christmas stories.