The conclusion of R3, my Christmas story, is now available on Strange Horizons. I hope everyone’s getting a snoot full of the Christmas spirit—and I don’t mean shop till you drop.

For those of you who’ve inquired about God’s campaign, he does have plans to return to the campaign trail once he figures out what Romney means by freedom needing religion and religion needing freedom and all the other God blather that’s going on. “It’s embarrassing, all this talk about me,” he says. “What about the issues?”