User blog:Ursuul/New Short Story: Christmas Eve

We all received a gift this Christmas! Jim wrote a new this past Christmas Eve, called Christmas Eve, as a gift for his fans, & everyone can read it in  (since so many people read it that it crashed crashed the website where it was originally hosted).

It’s a neat little story looking into Harry as a father, much like Zoo Day but even simpler & wholly from Harry’s perspective. It’s generally just a happy holiday piece, but it also includes references to what appears to be the events of Peace Talks, which we’ve not had any inkling of yet. It brings up "thousands of funerals" & tens of thousands of injuries, many of which it was implied were Harry’s friends.

We know that this story was set after Cold Days, because Molly appears in her role as Winter Lady, but there weren’t “thousands of deaths” in Cold Days or Skin Game. That certainly didn’t happen in any of the post-Cold Days short stories, Cold Case, Jury Duty, Day One, nor Zoo Day. Realistically the only conclusion to be drawn is that this is the first teaser for Peace Talks!