Synopsis:

Santarctica. The most northerly planet in human territory, an ice planet, is where you may find the workshop of an old friend: Santa Claus.
Have you ever seen his ride? An unusually shaped spaceship with a red nose, known as Santa’s Space Sleigh.
And have you met his helpers? That's right, little green men.
A wonderful team which has managed to deliver Christmas presents all around the universe for centuries.
And always in time.
Until now...

A Cosmic Christmas

Genre: Young Adult / Science Fiction (Christmas)

Type: Short Story

Words: 15,000

Released: December, 20, 2021

Manuscript finished: December, 20217

Inspiration: 

I wanted to do a remake of the wellknown poem "A visit from Saint Nicholas", better known as "Twas the night before Christmas". Working on the illustrations for this special edition, I realized there hardly are any Christmas stories including aliens. So I searched for some, possible, bookcovers and found this adorable little guy. I got lost in his eyes; lost in space and most of all lost in my own fantasy. And this is the result: a fun story for the young and those who still feel young (who doesn't...)

List of characters

Characters alphabetical by last name. Nicknames and characters only known by their first name or their last name, are given underneath this list. Unnamed characters are not listed!

• Jessica "cookie" Claus - Mrs. Claus
• Manny Lazano - private
• Mikhail von Bellinghausen - Captain
• Nick / Nicholas - Santa Claus / protagonist

• Alfar - Elf
• Bocuse - Elf / cook
• Durville - alien
• Joan - daughter of Freya
• Joel - son of Freya
• Freya - spouse of Yule
• Yule K...- sergeant + spouse of Freya [*]

• [*] last name hidden while this may be a spoiler

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