'DECK THE HALLS traverses the joy and jeopardy of the festive season, from Yule to Mōdraniht, Summer Solstice to Years’ End. The stories journey through consternations and celebrations, past, present and future, which might be or never were.
'Along the way you’ll meet troll hunters, consumer dissidents, corset-bound adventurers, a joint-toking spirit, big-hearted gangbangers, an outcast hybrid spaceship, petrol-toting politicians, mythical swingers and a boy who unwittingly controls the weather.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Only works written by Australian authors or set in Australia are individually indexed on AustLit.
This anthology also includes the works of the following international authors: Sam Adamson, Trevor Belshaw, Jim Bronyour, Jen Brubacher, Christopher Chartrand, Rob Diaz II, Rebecca Emin, Chia Evers, Susan May James, P.J. Kaiser, Emma Kerry, Nik Perring, Dan Powell, Dale Challener-Roe, Kate Sherrod, Icy Sedgwick, Paul Servini, and Alison Wells.
A man returns to his home town ten years after a tragedy.
A space shuttle, part of a fleet forming a new Earth free from consumerism, comes across a space station extravagantly decorated for Christmas.
A Christmas Day troll hunt brings up past feelings between former lovers.
An old man sits by the fire on Christmas eve and faces his coming death.
On Christmas Day 1901, Dylan Blake, convict-musician turned eminent composer, tells his traditional story of Christmas Eve 1864 and the bushranger Harry Power.
A man seeks a cure for the long-term disease that has forced him to keep his wife in stasis–but the disease is not what it seems.
For New York lawyer Paul Griffin, life is not entirely what it seems.
A story of a marriage breakdown and the Wild Hunt, set in Queensland.
Christmas brings up long-forgotten memories for a teenage girl.
A sole astronaut on a long-distance transport run begins to hear the stars singing to him.
A pilot and his self-aware spaceship must out-race a solar storm to deliver cargo to distant colonists.
