For those tired of the same old Christmas stories, let us suggest The 24 Days of Xmas, Kevin Sampsell's new collection of absurdist holiday-themed flash fiction. The stories are wonderfully off-kilter and bizarrely funny, yet somehow they still manage to bestow a particular cozy holiday feeling. Let your new family traditions begin here.

From the publisher: "Like a goofball mashup of Charles Dickens and David Sedaris, these twenty-four holiday fictions by Kevin Sampsell are unexpected gifts that highlight a clean-shaven Santa, a Christmas banana, the heroics of Ed Asner, a pissed off Jesus, chimney tragedies, closeted gay elves, Christmas tree hacks, the sequel to It’s a Wonderful Life, and much more."

44 pages, half-letter size, color collages by Katie Price throughout.